Official Oxygen 8 Mapping for Traktor Pro

sniff sniff? i hope so :smiley:

I’m having the above problem too, with the xml file and not being able to click the ā€˜up’ button in Enigma. I don’t even understand what Enigma is supposed to be doing in this process… I couldn’t get it to respond as per the instructions so I just went ahead and loaded the TSI in Traktor Pro, which sort of worked but it seemed to have lots of bugs. (e.g. the filters needing to be in the middle position to be ā€˜off’)

Finding this sooo frustrating but that’s because I can totally see that this mapping is going to be amazing if I can iron out my technical hitches… help?!

Someone on the blog said fabric tape which is what it looks like to me - great idea because if you get it wrong or decide to change the mapping later, you can take it off again (with a bit of effort).

So after some fidgeting with the tsi file i have 90% of the mapping working with my Axiom 25. I also made a custom enigma file for the Axiom as well. I wanted to wait till i could figure out how to get the effects working properly to upload the files but it seems like thats a mystery for everyone. So when i get home later today ill go ahead and upload the two files and maybe someone can figure out exactly whats going on with the effects.

The dawn of a new controlerist :sunglasses:

Hey Ean!
I’m Finally diving into Controlerism now!
Today I will buy a used Oxygen 8 V2 from a friend and a brand new Numark DJIO to use with my company’s laptop Dell Vostro 1310 that I use for work all day with Oracle Databases :smiley: .
Its far away from my dream gear setup, but I will not need to replace any part to use my dream gear latter, as i wish to use Oxygen for Production work with FLStudio 9.
I wish to thank you and DJTT for this opportunity and please keep coming with the cheap solutions for the poor begining DJs :smiley:

Just for feedback this is my dream DJ-gear for controllerism:
Macbook white 4gb RAM
Presonus Firestudio Mobile (yes, the new version of firebox)
VCI-100 SE Arcade Buttons (blue UV-Reactive knobs if possible)
Sennheiser HD25 1-II
Korg Nano Pad

And this will be my starting DJ-gear for controllerism:
Dell Vostro 1310 3gb RAM
Numark DJ IO
Oxygen 8 V2 25 keys with DJTT Mapping
Generic Sustain Pedals
Generic Headphone
maybe a Korg Nano Pad at February/2010

Waiting for the Complete Walktrough Video! :smiley:

v-hoff.. nearly snap dude! although I’m rapidly going off the idea of getting a vci 100 arcade, as i’m so happy with the oxygen 8 mapping :slight_smile:

keep up the good work man, sounds like you know where its at :wink:

ooh and on the grip tape - i’ve been looking at skateboard grip tape.. anyone think this might work? I’m not a skater, but I know the stuff, and that would really grip it up! and it comes in loads of colours too… good/bad idea??

Because I play hockey, my first choice was hockey tape, it works perfectly! its cheap and can be taken off very easily, it also come in 123123123 colors and patterns too! look into it belch!

What should I do if I have no mixer to change the tracks? :confused:

I’m thinking about buying a inexpensive mixer to play at. But how can I use it to control traktor? Should I send my 1 and 2 out from Numark DJIO to Mixer’s input 1 and 2?

Numark DM950

There is another version that is USB plug and play and works with Virtual DJ, can I map it to traktor pro 1.2?

Numark DM950 USB
http://www.numark.com/dm950usb

I wish to get close to a club setup, and close to the VCI-100 workflow too, can I do it in any way?

Deal with it! :smiley:

you dont need one really… it would be nice, so maybe you could look into getting a cheapo one 2nd hand from ebay or something - but tbh with the filter’s etc you have available, just try without and mix internally.. that’s what i’ve been doing when i cnt be arsed to sort my mixer out!

thanks for the tips
but it would be nice a walktrough video hehe
lets wait for it and practice like hell untill that :smiley:

video? :smiley:

Any news about the walktrough video?
I’m playing every day with my oxy and it’s really fun, I never played on any controller and never on any CDJ-Mixer setup, but I’m still able to figure out what everything does by experimentation.

I’m feeling that my performance is getting better with practice but I want to learn more, specially how can I mix two musics without a mixer, only with my oxy and the notebook touchpad :smiley:

After the video shows up, I’ll post something that I suspect to be a bug. Let’s beta-test the version :wink:

Thanks again Ean, it has been a fun weekend to me :slight_smile:

I agree the Oxygen 8 mapping is great, in fact I’m not really using my vci-100 right now because the oxy is much more fun.

V-Hoff - if you want to mix to songs together you might wan to try remapping knobs CC2 and CC4 to volumes of deck A and B. I’ve been doing the mixing on my Korg Nano Kontrol.

I hope the video is coming soon :slight_smile:

Ean I have two issues with my oxy

The first happens when i do this:

Loaded deck A, cut A hi to zero
duplicate to deck B, cut B low and mid to zero
Deck A is the master
Whenever I use beatmasher to Deck A or Deck B it sounds like beatmasher but it comes with a anoying noise of a piano playing the same note fast and out loud
My Deck Master is set to Auto and when beatmasher is active its automaticaly changed to Clock Master set Int.

What am I doing wrong? I can’t use beatmash at all…

The second is: why to have slice 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 at deck A and deck B?
They all seems to have the same parameters and sounds like the same, or it’s a buggy feature or I’m getting wrong. When I hit Slice 3 then Slice 2, it seems that sometimes the parameters change, and sometimes not.
I’m not using the Sustain Pedal, i’m using the Alt Shift key.

Thanks

I figure out the thing with removing the master clock change of the beatmasher knob
Im using Master Clock Auto, I’m doing it right?

Ean, nothing new about the mapping yet? fixes?
The map will work with TP 1.2.2 released today right?

Hey ppl, nothing new about the oxy mapping?

I’m planning to do a second map to control eq and volume of the decks. Can I do this by using the P1-P10 stuff? or changing the Octaves? I’m planning to don’t use a mixer at all, just me, my oxy and jesus by my side :sunglasses:

I never mapped anything so I’m a bit confused by this new world to me. I’m waiting my copy of the Traktor Bible second edition to understand a bit more of traktor internals.

If you change octave I think all the note actions/commands will change, since they are based on note events, but that makes me wonder could you map all sorts of stuff to various octaves of the keys? :eek:

Thats what i’m planning to do sherpa,
Warping octaves to control Deck C and D

But can I change the knobs mapping with P1-P10 ? Thats my primary issue, I want to make a second mapping to control EQ and volume of decks AxB AxC BxD on the knobs. With that I can fit my desired workflow and keep my minimal setup (laptop+oxy+interface) :stuck_out_tongue:

First mid map!

Hey Oxy fans, how are you doing with your new mapped toy? Pretty anxious for the next version of the mapping I hope…
I’ve spent all my sunday trying to re-map my oxy to make a EQ mixer and I’ll show you step by step how you can do it the way I did, it’s pretty easy even for the people who never mapped anything in life (ppl like me before sunday):

Prerequisites:

  • Import the DJ Tech Tools Mapping ā€œ.xmlā€ at the Enigma
  • Send the mapping P1 to P10 (select all with the shift key) to the oxy to sync (sync with the button with two arrows to the right)
  • Open the traktor software and import the DJ Tech Tools Mapping ā€œ.tsiā€

Mapping routine:

  • First of all insert a Modifier #8 and duplicate it
  • Set the first modifier #8 to be controlled by Ch1.CC.024 (play button) and the second to Ch1.CC.023 (stop button)
  • Change, on both modifiers the type of the command to ā€œbuttonā€ interact to ā€œdirectā€. The value you can set to ā€œ1ā€ on the CC.024 and ā€œ0ā€ on the CC.023. The goal is to enter the ā€œMixer modeā€ with the play button and go out the ā€œMixer modeā€ with the stop button
  • Now everytime you set a knob to do an EQ or Volume Fader action, you will need to use the M8=ā€œ1ā€ on the Mod2 column of the mapping list.
  • Remember that all the old knob mapping needs to have the M8=ā€œ0ā€ on the Mod2 column to keep working like it should when you are out the ā€œMixer Modeā€

Advices:

  • Use the P10 Enigma Mapping to mix propery with the botton row of the EQ, you will lose the dual Low - High filter on Deck A and B and will end with two normal filters on Deck A and B, but you will earn four 0 to 127 knobs with the default position on 64 (middle) to use the EQs in the easiest form.
  • Re-map the CC.093 AND CC.010 with M8=ā€œ0ā€ to something else since you don’t need two knobs to do the same action on the same deck. I’ve remapped to use the Key control since I like to change kicks key on the peak hours to UP and on the lowest hours, to DOWN (yes, I like to laugh and make ppl laugh with the funny key change sound, I think that is because of my ancestral Albert Hoffmann :stuck_out_tongue: )

So far, so good. It’s difficult to remember all the midi-codes that the oxy sends to traktor. For help myself memorizing it I’ve made a midi-code map of the notes and knobs that is attached to this post.

It’ll be allways difficult to play without Led feedback for the ā€œMixer Modeā€ and with multiple functions assigned to those knobs but hey, let’s try to use this like an exercise to memorize the functions without look to your controller everytime for feedback. I’m using the oxy until I have enough money to buy something else for eq and mixing because ā€œwhen you don’t have the tool to do a job, your job could be making a tool insteadā€

Bugs:

  • I’ve found some actions without buttons mapped and some buttons without a properly mapped action.
  • I’ve also found some mistakes at the beat slicer notes and different slice buttons doing the same thing.
  • I’ve found a bug with the Beatmasher knob button (CC.074 and CC.007) that apparently is only happening with me, I hear a very loud piano sound because the tracks become out of sync while using the effect. Because of that I’ve removed the Master Clock Change to this knob to fix that out and I’m using the Master Clock Auto option ON.
  • Not a bug but a improvement to fit my workflow: I’ve remaped the Deck Copy buttons (Ch1.Note.B3 and Note.B4) to change EQs of the Deck A and B automatically:
    Deck A will have the Hi on 0, Mid on 0.5, Low on 0.5 and will be the Master Deck
    Deck B will have the Hi on 0.5, Mid on 0, Low on 0 and will be the Synced Deck
    This way I can play with effects on a dual layered music (it’s much more fun like that, since I don’t have my musics prepared for beat juggling)

I’m correcting all these errors to have a better version of the map, I’m sure Ean is doing the same, but I can’t wait for him, I’m with the ā€œdeveloper’s rush diseaseā€, I’ll never stop developing new functionalities until I’m happy with it. hehe :stuck_out_tongue:

I hope this short tutorial helps beginner people like me to not spend all the sunday to discover how to do your first midi map :slight_smile:

cheers, :sunglasses: