Ion discover Dj

DJ Life & Community General Discussion
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Ion discover Dj

The ION Discover DJ is an inexpensive controller and software package aimed at introducing budding Pete Tongs to the dark art of spinning the wheels of steel.

Although the actual software ,mixvibes, is horrible, when mapped to traktor pro in a decent manner the Ion actually is amazing for the cost you buy it at.

Its touch sensitive jog wheels provide accuracy and are big enough so you can actually scratch!

it has numurous knobs and buttons that when mapped can do everything that a VCI 100 can do.

For beginners and pros the Ion discover dj can do a lot way more than thought of.

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They had these in the clearance rack at Bed, Bath & Beyond for like $29 or something like that I laughed when I saw it but part of me kinda wondered if anyone had tried it with Traktor too. :slight_smile:

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honestly, im not going to lie. its not nearly as bad (in terms of feel) as it looks. i had my hands on one for a couple of hours.

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I picked one up at target for 25$ it was my first controller. I didn’t keep it for long I quickly realized I needed something with more buttons but it lead me to this site and it started me down the path which I like to tell myself I would have ended up here regardless but who knows.

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Discover DJ and Traktor

Hey, I just received Discover DJ as a gift and purchased the Audio 2 DJ as well. I cannot find the mapping for Traktor anywhere. Does anyone have it and if so, can you send it my way? Also, how do you install it?

Thanks for all your help.

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No, it can’t. Sorry.

I’m sure it’s a fun introduction for total beginners at a very low price, but it just can’t match a VCI-100 in any capacity. I have tried one.

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it doesnt have enough knobs and suck to be like the vci, however Dj dynast can put up his mapping as i know exactly how it works (FFS i made it)

unique things different from the default mapping:

it controls the higs and lows, cuepoints 1-3 (and deleting them)
tuning on effects units 1 and 2 as well as controlling parameters with the 3 knobs and the dry/ wet with the jogs (like on the vci :smiley: ) and using the lowes knob (i think its labled as the gain) to control the volume faders.

theres some other stuff in there, but this mapping pushes a really basic controller really far

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Map for Traktor

Does anyone have the mapping for Traktor? I have discover dj, but cannot find the map any where. Thanks in advance!!

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yeah. ill get in touch with the op and ill have him post it :slight_smile: or send it to me. ill explain how it works since i made it :slight_smile:

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Great!! Thanks again and I will keep a look out for it.

Cheers

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sorry guys i was off the forum for a while… I’ll have the mapping up tomarrow…

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ill post the explanation in the morning then.

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Whatta Wha. . .

This is random, I could understand your “statement” as a reply. But as a thread starter jus boggles my mind. . .

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it was like his second post at the time. he didnt know how things go.

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lol yeah and i’ll post the mapping in a couple of minutes… It doesn’t have the monitors o leds yet because i did those after i saved the mapping.

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Mapping

when M1=1
*play button = play
*cue button= Cue play
*Rev= loop in/setcue
sync button (deck A) = modifier 2
sync button (deck B) = modifier 3
*knob 1 (down to up)= volume
*knob 2 " "= Lows
*knob 3 " " = high
*pitch+ button = loop out
*Pitch -button = loop in
*Jog wheel= pitch (while playing)
*Jog wheel= scratch (while deck isn’t playing)
center knob = explore collection
Load A and B = Load A and B
scratch= sync
cross fader= cross fader
When Modifier 2 = 1
*play button= hotcue 3
*cue button = hotcue 2
*rev button= hotcue 1
*pitch + button= turn on effects 1 for respective deck
*Pitch- button= turn on effects 2 for respective deck
*Jog wheel= scratch
When M3=1
Pitch+( deck A) = turn on parameter 1 effects unit 1
Pitch - (deck A) = turn on parameter 2 effects unit 1
Load A= turn on parameter 3 effects unit 1
Pitch+(deck B)=turn on parameter 1 effects unit 2
Pitch - (deck B) = turn on parameter 2 effects unit 2
Load B= turn on parameter 3 effects unit 2
Jog wheel A= dry wet amount effects unit 1
Jog wheel B = Dry wet amount effects unit 2
Knob 1,2,3 deck A = parameter amount 1,2,3 unit 1
Knob 1,2,3 Deck B= parameter amount 1,2,3 unit 2

  • cue button= delete hotcue 2
  • rev button= delete hotcue 2
  • play button= Delete hot cue 3
    *= same on both decks

**note when beatgridding use hotcue 8 as the beat grid cue so you can have 1,2,3 available.

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Sweet!! Thanks again for all the support. I will keep a look out.

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anytime

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Thanks DJ Dynasty, I just picked up one of these at bed bath and beyond for like 40 bucks, I appreciate your mapping, gonna try it out now!:slight_smile: