TPro effects question before i commit to buying it
ok, so i get that there’s the four banks (?) of effects in Pro, can they be assigned to any deck, or is it 1-1 2-2 3-3 4-4?
also can the assignment be switched with a hotkey/midi cc? or based on focus?
for example i have 4 buttons on my nanopad, one to set the focus to either a, b, c or d. will the selected fx bank act on that selected deck?
also how do you tell it which bank to use? or is that based on the assignment?
for example, atm i have a slightly different xy layout on each of the pages of the nano, one for the bp filter, one for l/h filter, one for flange and one for beatmasher. when i hold it, it turns the effect on and sets the amt to full with the other 2 xy signals controlling specific knobs and stops when i release, is there then an additional control i set to identify which effect bank it is doing this on?
so
tells it bank
tells it on ------------>these for example are c16, with 0 and 1 on x and y
sets the amt
and the would the commands in the map be;
select effect bank [1-4] [deck-focus]
effect button 1 [on/hold] [deck-focus]
effect knob 1 [button, resolution 254] [deck-focus]
(i think it’s resolution, the one that tells it how far to turn the knob with the button push, as not using a fader/knob)
2+3 are what i’m using in T3 at the moment with the required knobs set on x & y with inverts set if more than one on an axis and i want them opposing each other for balance
The banks dont really get assigned to any particular deck mate, each deck can have all four banks activated if you like. its all how you set up your midi commands really. i’m back on version 1.1.2 now but on 1.2 and up i just set up one bank per deck, allowing 3 unique effects per deck, but you could set it up as 2 per deck, 3, or whatever really.
bought it. all good. manged to do fx as i planned.
however, i can figure out cue jugglin in this one.
in t3 you mapped it to jump to cue list, and then selected from 1 to 6 in the list. but i can’t see something like that in pro, how do i specify which cue point i want each button to jump to?
also, headache with modifiers, had a google, read that thing about djtt being a scam. but still can’t get what i want to work
i’m trying to make it so that the (former) master effect button (top right above the 4knobs/buttons) sets a loop on c when the LEDs next to it are on the top one and set a loop for d when they’re at the bottom. middle position isn’t being used so ignore that.
the button i’m using is outside of those buttons. discovered that on my t3 map, would turn off loop on one when i set it on the other - but had no way of sorting it. hoping a mod will change that. if not, back to the old work around.
also have to use the same mod on the 4th button. on my old map it turned on effect (always set to beatmasher) and as each deck had it’s own effects they turned on/off independently. but now only have one (slicer instead) in bank 4 and other banks set for other stuff they both interact with the same bits, despite being on different signals. so gonna change that with a mod. don’t really want to use 2 banks for the same effect. seems a waste
basically i’m trying to emulate my old vci map in tpro as it’s what i’m used to.
only big change is the nanopad, and now my eqs do filter and key control for all 4 decks instead effects for a and b.
the knobs control them and turn them on.
from top down
a filter and b filter
a key and b key
c filter and d filter
c key and d key
buzzed my tits off when i saw that extra filter
and balance knobs do eqs, left one for hi/mid hi on a and b to keep a balance and right one for mid low/low. the one it points to is the one that has had the eq tweaked up a bit. based it on the smart mixer in ableton. makes fades a bit smoother too.
The original problem you were running into might be linked to the fact that those buttons are linked to the Effect buttons in the middle section of the mixer. The main downside of the VCI at this point to me is it is really optimized for T3, not TPro.
But regardless, I think what I was originally saying is what you want anyway.
The problem you’re going to run into is that when you load the VCI-100 up then it will default to Master every time. SO what you might want to do is set Master to 0, B to 1 and A to 2 so it kind of cycles around.
So what you’d do is
When the VCI loads and Traktor loads m1 will =0 and the section will be lit for Master.
found that 2 of them send the same note, b to master and master to a (c#8 if i remember, was a couple of hours ago and fiddled with many more buttons since then)
but setting it the way i said in previous post has solved it.
not bothered with using the mod on 4th button. was going to use it to make it a dead button if the other is in use.
the master ones are used for just setting loop on off on each deck, in addition to the normal set+size. but use these for stored loops. and the knobs deal with unload - something for them to do.
got the cues working to
also set the 2 buttons in the middle (used to be monitor) as toggle browser and a shift using m2. now load a is also c and b is also d, and the up/down buttons cycle through favorites.
all in all, not bad for almost 8 hours straight of midi mapping. now got to wait til tomorrow to play with it.
prob close before i finished with the maps 
lol
