NI Kontrol X1 MKII. Is it possible to map bend up / bend down on the touch strip?
Hi,
as Ean mentioned it on this video between 4’26’’ and 4’32’', i would like to map bend up and bend down from Traktor decks (i use 2 for the moment: A and B) on the touch strip.
I checked in Controller Editor 1.6.2, but didn’t find it.
Does anybody have a cool trick please?
Thank you
Francois
also i would like to find a location on the x1 mk2 where to logically map the active loop active function, always for Traktor. Thank you
You don’t map in the controller editor, you map in the controller manager inside traktor. As standard, pitch bend is already mapped to the touchstrip, so I don’t know what you’re trying to achieve here? I also have no clue what you mean with the loop function question.
hi Scalage,
Thank you for your answer.
I don’t want to use the touchstrip for pitch bend, if it’s not mappable as I want to.
I want to map it through 2 different regions: bend up and bend down, for each deck. (Please check the video between 4’26’’ and 4’32’, Ean is clear when he evokes this).
Therefore, I want to map the hotcue 3 for bend down and the hotcue #4 for bend up.
(To have the same behavior as in the X1 MK1 (for the beat buttons with shift pressed, but i don’t want to shift: when I press hot cue 3, I bend down (I pull progressively the beat down) and when I press hot cue 4, I bend up (I push progressively the beat up). Like turntables or cd players or jogs on dj midi controllers.)
How can i do this please?
Regarding the loop function, on each deck on traktor, you have this ‘Active’ function (under the pitch), i would like to map this on a button (for instance hot cue 2), for on and off on the loop activation.
Thank you for your help.
I see. So the left part would be bend down and the right one bend up. I don’t know if this is possible as the strip has a touch functionality, but only one.
The mapping of the pitch bend to the hotcues is fairly simple. Just assign tempo bend (stepless) as a hold button set to value down for 3 and up for #4 and tick the box override factory mapping.
The one for the loop is the loop active on command IIRC. Map it as a toggle to hotcue #2. Again, tick the override factory map box.
i need to go into Controller Manager in Traktor and then select: Device, Traktor X1 MK2 (default)?
Yes, exactly
ok cool, i’m up to do it by the way, just before doing this, i would like to say that in the Controller Editor (not Traktor Controller Manager ok..), i touched something and would like to reset to the default template before acting in the Controller Manager, how do i do this please?
as a sum up, if i don’t save as a template my assignments from the controller editor, it has no incidence, right?
and above all, if i don’t apply this template it has no influence, right?
ok i assigned like this into Controller Manager for x1 mk2: see enclose screenshot
oh sorry the screenshot is not ok
the trouble is i don’t have ‘hold button’ in the type of controller, only ‘button’, could you help me please Scarlage?
ok i managed to map (see the 4 screenshots enclose and please tell me if all my parameters are logic. I also chose ‘fine’ for the resolution parameter)
I didn’t find the ‘hold button’, only ‘button’ but it works.
As i come from vinyl turntables djing, something came to my mind: when i bend up, pressing the dedicated hot cue, and when i release this dedicated hot cue, the tempo comes back to its synced value (i speak about the slaved deck of course) but the phase has permanently moved, which is strange, so i don’t understand this point: why the phase cursor moves and does not progressively comes back following its tempo?
For the active loop mapping, i did it perfectly, thank you Scalage for your advice, that’s cool.
You’re messing with wrong command here. The one you want to map is the actual “Tempo Bend” - then, when you go ahead and set the button type the interaction mode will say ether UP or Down for the each of the button directions.
I told him wrong, my bad. Deepraker wanted the pitch to rise when you hold the button, so I thought he’d have to use the stepless one. I don’t really understand the purpose of pitch bend anyway, so that could be the problem as well. I just use the jogwheels.
I thought the purpose of pitch bend was to change the phase? So what’s wrong with the function it is now?
Thank you very much for your help Stewe, it’s ok now. thank you very much Scalage, that was helpful too!
After reflection, I think the phase function is to see where the alignement of the red line is (central cursor), after the dj has bent up or bent down.
But it doesn’t mean at all that it will be, after a good bend up or a good bend down, always in sync as the tempo always comes back to its synced tempo regarding the master deck, when the bend button is released. After the dj will need to move a bit the pitch, like on turntables. Am i right?
is it possible to change the led illumination color for this hot cue buttons that i remapped as bend up, bend down and active loop? thank you
So what you want is not only a pitch bend, but also a pitch change? Just add a tempo adjust to the same button. Set it to inc for bend up and dec for down. Tick override factory map and set it to auto repeat. You can also change how much it changes by setting the resolution. But try it as default to start with.
You can add the color pretty easily on the X1. First highlight the one you want to add the led output to and then press add out instead of add in. On the top of the list should be the same command as you highlighted. Then press the bar next to learn, find the right button and choose from the list of colors.
