Gain To Zero

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Gain To Zero

Hey guy’s

Been a while since my last post, i’ve had a look around the forum and i can’t see the answer to this, so here it goes.

On my vci 100se i want to be able to alter the way the gain works.
Example- when the gain is turned anti-clock wise all the way and the fader is still up i get sound still. I want to be able to turn it all the way anti-clock wise and still have the fader up but it kills the sound. Like confessional mixers. Is there a way to do this? Its probably so easy im just not seeing it. :slight_smile:

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I’ve never had a gain knob kill the sound entirely. That’s not really what the gain knob is for…

Essentially you want to turn the gain knob into a second fader?

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Not possible to do this inside of Traktor sorry - i really wouldnt recommend a workflow like this either.

However im intrested in hearing your reasoning for wanting to do this :slight_smile:

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AH yes. thanks for that. turning it in to a fader makes sense. Thank you

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Please enlighten us…why do you need to get rid of the gain knob in favor of a volume fader?

the gain knob is important for…gain.

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If that makes sense… then why am I so confused? :wink:

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Its not that i want to disregard the gain knob i want to kill total sound fast. i know i could use channel fader or cross fader to do this. I just wanted to try it out to see if it had advantages to it. I like to experiment with different ways of mapping ect. It was just an idea. :slight_smile:

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how about a kill button? that might be far more useful than losing the gain knob.

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sounds like you want more of a trim knob instead of a gain knob. differences between trim and gain can be read about here: http://www.sweetwater.com/expert-center/techtips/d--08/08/2003

a trim knob will go down to zero. mixers like the djm line have trim knobs that act like you are requesting but i’m not sure that is a option in traktor

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Thanks for that, does anyone know if it is possible to do this in Traktor?:slight_smile:

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AFAIK, no.

But you can remap the gain knob so it controls the volume instead, but as Moniker said, gain is not really supposed to be used like this. You can set things like mute buttons, or when the gain knob hits zero the volume hits zero as well, but you need Bome, or a MIDI Translator for that.

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Thanks guy’s for all you help. I think i will play around with it and see what happens. I will report back with my findings:slight_smile:

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a quick search over at the N.I. forums doesn’t reveal any trim in traktor. like mentioned, i wouldn’t try to use the gain for it, won’t work the same.

if you want the volume mapped to a knob why not just map it to the knob like a rotary mixer?

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You read my mind that was my next mission:slight_smile: