I received my MF today and got it loaded up with the Deckalized Deck Focus tsi. All of the buttons function correctly however the LED’s do not.
When a button is toggled to remain on the LED does not remain lit. They only light for the duration they are pressed regardless of toggling an effect ect.
Also when placing the MF in cue point juggle mode (Shift + Sample) the eight bottom buttons do not stay on.
I haven’t made any changes and I believe my in/out setting are correct (all buttons do what they are supposed to do). Is there a way to get the proper visual feedback from the LED’s like in Ean’s MF video? Am i missing something?
Make sure you not only have MIDI input from the device but you have also enabled MIDI output to it. The LEDs are controlled by MIDI messages being sent out from your computer to the Midifighter.
You can test this using MIDI-OX or a similar MIDI debugger by enabling the keyboard simulator and sending MIDI.
How do I do this? Where are the out settings? I’m sure the config in traktor controller settings are correct. I’ve done it at least 100x today. Still no LED function as per Ean’s video.
So I have a mac so I have MidiMonitor to determine what is being sent to/from Traktor to the MidiFighter.
Here is the MidiMonitor output:
Sync Off
19:16:28.594 From Midifighter Note On 3 C#3 127
19:16:28.679 From Midifighter Note Off 3 C#3 127
19:16:28.681 To Midifighter Note Off 3 C#3 0
Sync On
19:16:38.456 From Midifighter Note On 3 C#3 127
19:16:38.588 From Midifighter Note Off 3 C#3 127
19:16:38.603 To Midifighter Note On 3 C#3 127
The notes appear to be being sent right but my LED’s aren’t being set. I have confirmed that MidiFighter is set in both my In-Port and Out-Port in Traktor’s settings.
Here is my Traktor info for reference: Traktor Scratch Pro, 1.2.6. Mac OS X 10.6.4
Sorry guys my bad there - when I programmed and tested them I managed to use an old version of the firmware which is a bit buggy around the LED contro, while they are now being reflashed before shipping from San Fran I believe some of the first units may have slipped through with the old firmware.
No worries. I was just happy I was able to follow the flash thread, fire up the old xp pc, and actually make it through the flash process without killing half a bottle of Jameson in frustration!
well, I’m using the deckalized mapping and they seem to toggle okay for the most part, except I noticed when I sample something with the sample section, and then do shift-record to go to the reslicing mode, the first time I hit shift-record all the lights on the bottom go out. If I do a shift-record again a second time, then all the lights on the bottom come on to do the reslicing… (seemed odd to me having to do it twice??)
Also once, I believe when I was in the regular shift-record cuepoint jumping mode (when there are alternating lit-dark patterns on the bottom two rows), somehow I managed to do something that made the 2 lights in the top row (of the cuepoints, technically row 3 i guess) just plain go out, leaving only 2 lights on in the bottom. I’m really not sure how that happened, and I just did shift-record (turned them all off) and shift-record again (back on to the alternating pattern for cuepoint jumping).
Based on these, do you think that a reflash of the latest firmware would be helpful?
The startup flashing the firmware does is a joy to watch. I don’t suppose that the ending 3 lights on the top left to right indicate what firmware version it is? (Oh! I just found that 3 slower solid flashes is the latest.. and quick like the first runthrough is the older?)
I do have one thing to say though:
O.M.G. This thing is absolutely amazing. Hats off to Ean and the crew for this amazing (possibly revolutionary??) controller and mapping! Arcade buttons and LEDs.. Brilliant!! Oh dear.. now I’ll just be dreaming of bigger ones, and more controls..
