colored waveforms S8/S5 D2

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colored waveforms S8/S5 D2

Over at the native forum somebody found a way to change the waveform colors…havent tried it yet …

and some other hack showing some more info in the screens …

short discrition over here : Traktor Kontrol S5 S8 hacks · GitHub

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anyone tried this yet? might have to have a dabble instead of waiting on NI to get into gear and release the much needed update for the D2/S5/S8

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i did not tried it but lookes like this, on the native forum there are a few who did it already and seems to work just fine, if you look at the file it seems other colors are possible to

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it works, just fine, replaced the qml file an started up traktor ..: screen on the d2 :

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I think I will have a sit down tonight and have a play with this

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I just want the multiple colored waveforms like they are in the software.

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So?

Guys? is it any pictures?1 where is result??? :tada::tada::tada:

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Wow! That really nice and complicated! Any kind soul could write into a simple program here?

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THX guys for this Tread…
Now I’m very very sleepy, cause I don’t sleep all that night, but now I have what I really wont from my S8…

  • I change SHIFT state during BPM adjustment… Not only on knobs which control each deck, but also i find and change parameters for MASTER BPM (knob in center of MIXER section.
  • I remove ART pic and add information about BEATS count (Beat to cue not really needed)
  • I check and find a lot of really good possibilities for make S8 more better…

But… I have only one question… Why NI don’t make this parameters adjustable from Traktor, or Controller Editor?!

There, in code, a lot of really good stuff for make Your controller really better.. A con not understand why NI look like lazy monkeys :disappointed:

If someone make something interesting - lets share with this information. I think i need few days for prepare some small report and pictures with all changes, and i post it here.

THX one more time!

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This is my theme:

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HI - White, MID - Blue, LOW - orange… Wery clear for understanding what is goin on in track…

Part of QML file from 414 line:

property variant waveformColorsMap: [
// Default
//{ low1:  rgba (24,   48,  80, 180),  low2:  rgba (24,   56,  96, 190),
//  mid1:  rgba (80,  160, 160, 100),  mid2:  rgba (48,  112, 112, 150),
//  high1: rgba (184, 240, 232, 120),  high2: rgba (208, 255, 248, 180) },

{ low1:  rgba (255,  50,   0, 150),  low2:  rgba (255,  50,   0, 250),
mid1:  rgba ( 30, 100, 255, 130),  mid2:  rgba ( 30, 100, 255, 250),
high1: rgba (255, 255, 255, 150),  high2: rgba (255, 255, 255, 250) },

THIS IS ONLY PART OF FILE! I Just change default Theme (Old parameters hided by “//” commets tag)

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I did this over the weekend and got the colour wavforms working fine and dandy, I had trouble looking through the qml files but found on a forum the full modified code qml, swaped it out and its now running. Now I want to get the beat counter up on the screens, am I looking for a specific part of the code to replace? as I understand it you replace the lines highlighted red with the lines highlighted green, I open up the qml file and then start dribbling like a fool at the gibberish im looking at. I have read through the qml tutorial that went up with the original forum post but I get totally lost with what its talking about, can anyone lay it out in idiot terms if they have got the beat counter up and working?

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For people that are having trouble understanding the instructions, here’s a fully working version with a spectrum waveform and a bunch of other small improvements:

Just click the green “Clone or download” button > Download ZIP and replace the folders.

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Cool Thanks, will give it a go tonight :slight_smile:

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Great Job ErikMinekus works perfect with my D2. Can I make a request for all matching keys in browser. i.e. 9A master track 4A/6A/8A/9B/10A/11A keys light up. Also the key of the track playing in deck mode. Thanks again.

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downloaded Erik’s files & installed the files as per the instructions

the displays/waveforms look great, thanks for the work you put into this

I do have 1 issue though, the notes mentioned switching the BPM coarse & fine adjustments
I assumed this meant no longer having to press “Shift” to change the tempo by 1 BPM at a time, but to do so for small adjustments
I am either wrong on this assumption of what it is supposed to do or it is not working for me

Can someone help me out on this?

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Your assumption is correct, this is handled in the CSI files so make sure those are replaced too. Using the Browse knob to zoom the waveform is also handled there, so does that work?

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yes that is working

Is this a mod for the D2 only & not the S8?

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It works on my D2, which uses the file from the S8, so not sure why it wouldn’t work on the S8.

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I tried rewriting the CSI folder again
still no luck (the browse encoder zoom does work though)

where & what changes to which qml file is supposed to change this behavior?
is it possible that the change was made it to on only the D2 qml file & not S8 qml file?

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so I figured out the problem

I opened CSI/S8/mixer.qml in text wrangler & found the section dealing with the tempo
It still matched exactly to the original unedited file, so maybe it was overlooked before you uploaded the files?
I swapped the parameters for the 2 settings & it works now

so thanks for the work you have done, this was easy enough for me to fix