So, i’ve finally got around to sorting out the cue jumping stuff, repainted a spare keyboard and hotkey mapped it with T3.
however, i can’t decide how to have it function when i hit the buttons for the cues. i watched eans we will rock you routine, and he mentioned about a button to toggle between play and not play. i have tried various things to do that and am goin in circles.
atm the buttons just jump to the cues, but the deck has to be playing. had it so it did a cue/pause at the same time, but that stopped the deck, tried cue/play, but it then will keep playing, not a problem unless i want it to stop.
basically whatever i do, i stop the deck unless the buttons just jump to the cues and nothing else.
is this something i’ll have to put up with as it’s T3 i’m using and not Pro? or have i missed something.
and before anyone says anything, i checked the FAQs and did a search, and couldn’t find anything that properly answered this question
if you start a cue point (say cue point 1) it will play till you let your finger off, but if you want it to carry on playing just hit play (like on a cdj)
i think the easier way to approach this question is;
what functions should the keys i’m using have?
i’m using 1-6 for A q-y for B a-h for C and z-n for D, obviously cue point 1 is 1, q, a or z etc…
trigger in this case, for the cue list jumps, tried toggle and hold for the cue/pause function, found hold to be of more use, but still have the problem of it cancelling out play. also they cancelled each other, if i had 1 held down, then pressed 2 it would stop play, unless i released 1 first
it could just be because i’m using a keyboard (for now), haven’t tried it on the vci (only midi device i’ve got).
what are the functions in the tsi files? i know that it’s a different thing to tks, but might give me some kind of insight?
maybe it’s just not something available in 3.4, pretty sure the vids i’ve seen it in have all been running pro
but the combinations i’ve used are
just the cue jump - only works with deck playing, but doesn’t stop playback
jump + cue/pause (hold) - runs when the key is held down, but stops play when released
jump + cue/pause (toggle) - nothing, just sits at cue on pause
jump + cue/play (hold) - as cue/pause, but carries on playing
jump + cue/play (toggle) - same as above
and then pressing my ‘normal’ play button stops play (puts it on pause)
interesting, while reading the manual (again) i found out how to adjust the cross fader curve, i’m sure i read somewhere that this can’t be done in 3 and that was one of the big things on the vci because it had the adjustable knob?
original problem might not exist now, taking another route with it. combining the cue points with saved loops, so each point jumps to a loop, makes more sense in a way as there’s loads of tracks where i always use the same point for looping. (yes i haven’t even saved any loops until now - terrible lol)
some of the cues are still used as hotcues, but the original problem is less of a problem now.
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