I contacted NI recently on a question concerning LED feedback and he suggested I visit this forum and post my question for the experts ..
I have created a number of custom mappings in traktor binded to my Maschine pads. All works great, I can press the button and the Macros are invoked etc.
However, since these macros are custom and no “function” exists in Traktor I am having a hard time getting LED feedback on the Maschine Pads when I invoke.
Is there an easy way to provide LED feedback back to the pad that is being depressed?
For anyone wanting to know a bit more specifics: My custom macros are things such as drop deck a, drop deck b, etc.
I can map a LED output back to a Maschine button for functions that exist in Traktor (such as record) with no issues – its just my custom macros that I cannot figure out.
What must the Led monitor (modifier, fx on, ? ? ?)
what happen’s when you press the Button, do you set a Modifier. Or want you just “Toggle”-Buttons with light?
I was hoping to not use a modifier since there is only 8 of them.
Just wanting to see the key light up as I am pressing it down. I have that working just fine for tasks such as Load next track and such but when it comes to modifying 3 different eq’s at once I am not sure how to get the button to give me feedback since there is no way to duplicate and set the output in the newer traktor.
EDIT: but if the only way to get this to work is using a modifier I guess I can sacrifice a few of them. Problem is I have about 16 of these custom crazy macros
if i understand you right, you want just Led Feedback from the Button you press (so you can see which button you pressed )
and if you release it, led off…
if this the case…
take a modifier just a fake-modifier
every button with “no real” function, is also Modifier1 = 1 (hold)
NI really sent you here for that question. When you said macro and NI couldn’t help you I though it was something strange and not and simple as this. Glad you got it sorted out!!
The further I go the more confused I get. For somer reason I am not seeing the same options that are shown on the screen shot. It somewhat makes sense but I do not understand why the toggle option is not present for the button mode when using a regular modifier.
I have attached a screen shot of the modifier. I should also note that I am using Traktor Pro S4.
I figured it out! My logic was all wrong. Too many computer programming languages in my head made me confuse how this works.
Create a modifier #1 in. Learn to your button. Type: Button, Interaction: Hold, Set to value 1
Create a modifier #1 in. Learn to your button. Type: Button, Interaction: Hold, Set to value 0 but set Modifier Contitions M1 to 1.
Finally add a output modifier #1 and manually set the output device mapping to the same midi note as above. Change controller range to 1 - 1.
That’s all there is to it really. I rinse and repeated the above but started to increase M1 by 1 each time.
I’m pretty sure your still over thinking it.
a Modifier with interaction type hold should:
Set Mod to 1 on press
On release set Mod to 0
UNLESS you latch/catch it. by setting the cond1 to M1 = 0.
If you don’t set a cond1/2 it should just HOLD ON/OFF
Perhaps but I could not get the Mod to reset to 0 without the 3rd rule matching M1=1 and setting back to 0.
Maybe I missed something subtle.
Either way I have 16 buttons all working but if you can describe how to make it work without the 3rd rule for each button that would save me 16 entries in my screen.
It’s amazing how fast the controller manager screen can fill up.
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