First time MIDI user needs mapping help

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First time MIDI user needs mapping help

Hi, I have been mixing for about 3 years now, but was on CDJs until just recently when I purchased a korg nanokontrol2.

I want to use it with traktor pro 2 for basic mixing and fx controls, but having no previous exposure to MIDI and mapping, i am sitting here looking at the kontrol editor software scratching my head. I have been trying to refer to the manual and other online guides however I cannot seem to find anything very helpful.

I would prefer to gain understanding of being able to make my own mappings as apposed to downloading someone elses .tsi file. Any help or even a link to a webpage/video would be great!

any further questions please feel free to ask.

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read my book its in my sig

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oh wow, extremely helpful! thank you so much! I have begun reading it and it is extremely helpful! I will post any questions if they come along but now that I have the mappings started hopefully it will be smooth sailing.

Thanks again!

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everything is smooth sailing so far except I have a slight problem. It is more a traktor problem than a mapping one, but when I have a hotcue looped and I switch to another hotcue, the loop goes away. Is there anyway so when i switch hotcues the loop of the same size stays on?

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Save your hot cue as a loop instead of a cue point.

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duhh sounds so obvious now XD thank you! keep in mind this is my first exposure to traktor :stuck_out_tongue:

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Just mess about in traktor. the editor itself is rather crappy (small window, etc) but gives you a good start into the whole midi-side of things. I would suggest not stating with the kontrol editor, since it doesn’t give you a direct feeling of what you’re doing (since it about editing the controller itself and not gives you “when i push this button, this happens”)

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thanks for the advice. yeah, once I learned how to map things thru traktor and I got a feel it I just mapped away and ignored the editor. Just curious as to when if ever, will I be changing things in the editor?

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I think I should update my book I have done loads of new mappings, so learned a few new tricks plus a few things you can do with the sample decks

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Probably never, unless you have conflicting midi channels (which will not happen in your case since you only have one controller so far) or when you bump into a limitation when it comes to modifiers, but I think the kontrol2 already has 4 layers of midi built in.