eskobar axio reply
hey eskobar,
i use an axiom to control traktor. i use the axiom 25 as an all in one controller. i know you have the 49 and that’s actually better. I use the bigger one at school but I am pretty sure the only thing that the 25 does not have is the fader controls. Which will prove useful for a 4 deck set up.
I pretty much only use 2 decks an i don’t actually have the channel volume mapped to anything in my set up. This is ok with a 2 deck set up but not really good for a 4 deck set up. You are going to want to map each deck a b c d to the control faders of your choice.
Now in order to be able to map the rest of the rotary knobs and drum pads etc… you are going to have to learn how to only control 1 decks parameters at a time. That is by using the “focus” setting. That means you will have to map the “focus select” option to a key on the keyboard. I use the record button because it is next to the play button and you are going to be hitting this button all the time. Its pretty easy because you raley need to cue 2 decks at once when mix style djing.
So this is what I mapped things to.
Wheels
Pitch bend = nothing at the moment
Mod Wheel = Crossfader
Transport
Record = Focus Select
Play = cue play focused deck
Stop = sync focused deck
Loop = loop on focused deck
Scrub backward = Loop length forward change focused deck
Scrub forward = Loop length backward focused deck
Rotary Knobs top and bottom rows left to right.
knob 1 = focused deck gain
knob 2 = focused deck eq low
knob 3 = focused deck eq mid
knob 4 = focused deck eq hi
knob 5 = fx parameter 1
knob 6 = fx parameter 2
knob 7 = fx parameter 3
knob 8 = fx parameter 4
Drum Pads
C18 = tempo down
C14 = tempo up
C19 = Focused Deck Monitor Cue
C15 = Focused deck Low Kill
C20 = Focused deck Jump to cue 1
C21 = Focused deck Jump to cue 2
C16 = Focused deck Jump to cue 3
C17 = Focused deck Jump to cue 4
Then I use various keys on the keyboard to do things like browse and add songs so I don’t need to use a mouse.
Some other parameters mapped to the keys are.
Focused Deck FX button 1-4
Focused Deck FX change
Jump to Cue for Selected decks A - B
Browser
Add song to focused deck
You will want to add your Control faders to Decks A B C D to mix in 4 deck style.
If you are using other midi programs and somehow changed your Axioms parameters you might need to hold down the - + buttons while restarting it. It will set your axioms controls back to general midi.
I will share my .tks with you if you think it will help you.
http://boweverdown.net/axiom25.tks.zip
Im adding the vci-100 to my live set up. I think it will be a great addition. Although my axiom does a pretty good job. I want to be able to scratch video.
Oh if you decide to go with an external mixer you will need soundcard. Or some mono to stereo splitters if you don’t want to buy a sound card.
On my macbook I actually use the built in sound card. You can do this if you have another sound card lets say like an iMic or a bluetooth headset or something. Just something cheap because you really only need an extra out for headphones if you are mixing internal. To set a multi sound card solution you need to make an aggregate device in your audio midi utilities. Just name the device something an set your internal soundcard out 1-2 and external device to be out 3-4 etc… then in traktor select the aggregate device not the soundcard and you should be good to go. I actually set up aggregate device for a few options in traktor.
A really good free program to get is soundflower, by cycling 74. It lets your route audio from any app to another. I use the soundflower in lets say a brodcast solution for tracktor. So I can take iChat av conversations and run them through traktor etc…
then moved to my oxygen. And really i thought i would be missing things, and im not. Cause i always have used an external mixer i thought i was gaining somthing with all of those extra nobs and faders. But duder if you need all that IE possibly ableton then all power to ya. The axiom is a great series for controllers.