Traktor Pro 2 Mapping Play Deck C And D
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- Now hit your Play pad, or play the Deck in TRAKTOR. Does the pad light up? Does the light turn off when you stop playing the Deck? If you can answer ‘yes’ to both of these questions, then you are on the path to MASCHINE mapping mastery! Repeat the process to create Load buttons for Deck C and Deck D. Mapping sync to pads.
- Unleash TRAKTOR PRO 2’s full potential with the huge choice of custom MIDI hardware user mappings available online. There are few TRAKTOR features as powerful as its MIDI mapping capability. Twist knobs, push faders and punch buttons on your MIDI device to control anything you like, from track prep and selection to looping and effects triggering.
The TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 MK2 The TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 Mk2In some cases, you may want to set up your TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 to control Decks C and D, for example when using Timecode control for Decks A and B in TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO 2. Since the loaded default mapping is mapped to Decks A and B, you need to change the Deck assignment of the mapping. Traktor is a very popular DJ software and is used by many professionals, knowing how to use it to it's fullest potential will give you an edge over many other DJ's. Even with the recent introduction of 'Stem Decks' (a simpler form of the remix deck) the remix decks remain, which proves they are an important and useful part of the Traktor software.
Reader DJ MW writes: “I have decided to sell my CDJs and go digital. However I regularly use a third deck in my sets. I am considering the Mixtrack Pro and I understand that I will need to upgrade to a pro version of whichever program I end up going for to support four channels (probably Traktor) and mapping buttons so that I can switch between decks A and C.”
“My question is: How would it work in relation to volume/pitch controls when switching? Does it lock them in or does it just follow the physical faders when you switch back and change the values, messing up the mix?”
Digital DJ Tips says:
Good question! I cannot be 100% sure with your own mapping using the Mixtrack Pro, as we don’t have one here to test it, but with controllers that are made to use four decks but that only have two sets of faders and knobs, it usually works as follows.
To be clear (for readers who aren’t following), what DJ MW is asking is this: Say you’re on deck A on a controller with two “decks” and two sets of mixer controls but that can control four decks in software. You set the tempo, EQs etc in a certain way, then switch away to deck C (such controllers usually have decks A and C on the left, and B and D on the right). Now, on deck C, you alter all the controls to suit the track playing there, before switching back to deck A. The question is, how does the controller handle those two different sets of settings for bass, mid, treble, gain, fader etc with just the one set of physical controls?
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So there are two parts to the answer. Firstly, the actual settings on the deck you’ve returned to will have remain set how you left them, even though the knobs and buttons on your controller are probably set totally differently in the software. Cubase theremin vst download. This means that the mix won’t have been messed up, as DJ MW feared.
The next question, then, is this: How do you take control again?
Back in the early days of all of this, what sometimes happened was that the second you touched a control, that control “jumped” to the position the hardware was then set to. Not ideal if the tempo was all the way down when you “left” the deck, and the hardware happened to be set with tempo all the way up when you “returned” to that deck!
So a better system was developed and implemented by most. What generally happens nowadays is that the hardware control won’t do anything until you move it back to where it was when you left that deck. So if you left the pitch at fully down, it won’t become “live” again until you move it back to fully down. Then, you can take over from there gracefully, without any sudden change in the control’s setting. It’s sometimes referred to as “soft takeover”.
The only minus point of this is that you do have to keep an eye on the screen to see where the controls are set in the software, to remind you where you have to return the control to in order to make it live again.
So back to your question: I’m hoping a reader can reply in the comments to confirm the actual experience of using a Mixtrack/Mixtrack Pro like this, but if you were to go for a controller designed to work with four decks, like the Reloop Mixage, for instance, this is definitely how it would work.
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Can you help DJ MW? Have you every struggled to use four decks on a two-deck controller? Do you successfully DJ in this way, or do you prefer using a full four-channel mixer section with four decks? Please let us know your experiences in the comments.
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Description
This mapping allows you to use Novation Launchpad to control deck C & D as Remix Decks simultaneously. It's robust, though clean, thus convenient and works well with 3rd party mappings for other controllers. It's functions are thoroughly described in their comments, so it's easy to adjust anything to your liking.
Features
- 2 paginated 4x4 matrixes of sample cell triggers
- SHIFT & CTRL modifiers for additional functions
- 3 easy accessible pages of slot functions
- Filter sliders
- Volume sliders
- Slot functions toggles (Keylock, FX, Monitor, Punch mode)
- Basic remix decks transport functions (Quantize, Play, Cue, Sync)
- Quantize value selectors
- Deck capture source selectors
- Fully color coded LED response
Installation
- Download the mapping and extract it to a folder of your choice
- In Traktor, go to Preferencies - Controller Manager
- Click the [Add..] button in the Device Setup section
- Choose [Import] entry from the dropdown menu
- Navigate to the folder where you have previously extracted the mapping file and select and open the .tsi file
- In Device Setup section, select Launchpad in BOTH In-Port and Out-Port dropdowns.
User Guide: User-Guide.jpg
- The main area consists of 2 fully color coded paginated trigger matrixes of 4x4. LED off = cell empty, LED amber = cell loaded, LED red = cell triggered but waiting for quantize, LED green = cell playing.
- Just hit the button to trigger/retrigger the corresponding sample cell.
- Hold SHIFT (round red button in the bottom right corner) and hit the trigger and it will stop a playing cell, delete the sample from a stopped cell and load the sample selected in the browser list to an empty cell.
- Hold CTRL (round green button in the bottom right corner) and hit the trigger and it will toggle the mute on a playing cell, trigger a stopped cell and capture a sample from an input selected in the deck's capture source selector
- Immediately under the matrixes are the color coded basic deck transport buttons. Yellow = Quantize On/Off, Green = Play/Pause, Red = Cue, Amber = Sync On/Off
- Immediately over the matrixes are Sample Page selectors. They lit up red respectively to the page you have selected.
- Over the Sample page selectors are 3 pages of 2 rows for Slot Functions. Page switches are the color coded round buttons to the right of the Slot Functions area. Red = Page 1, Green = Page 2, Amber = Page 3
- The default Page 1 (red) controls slot filter. Upper row increases and lower row decreases the filter frequency. Hold SHIFT button and hit a trigger in the upper row to toggle the filter on/off. Hitting a trigger in the lower row while holding the SHIFT button will reset the filter to default state.
- The Page 2 (green) slot volumes. Upper row increases and lower row decrease the volume of a respective slot.
- The Page 3 (amber/yellow) controls the slot functions. Hit the upper row to toggle FX On/Off on the slot. Hit the lower row to enable monitor on the slot. Hold SHIFT and hit the upper row to toggle Keylock On/Off. Hold SHIFT and hit lower row to toggle the slot's Punch Mode On/Off
- The top most round buttons over the 2 rows of Slot Functions control the extended deck transport functions: Deck Quantize selectors (amber) and Deck Capture Source selectors (red)
Changelog:
0.2.1
- NEW: Visual user guide;
0.2.0
- FIX: trigger matrix LED colors;
- NEW: paginated slot functions area;
- NEW: slot filter sliders and switches;
- NEW: slot volume sliders;
- NEW: slot functions switches (Keylock, FX, Monitor, Punch Mode);
- NEW: deck Quantize selectors;
- NEW: Quantize On/Off toggle;
- NEW: deck Capture Source selectors;
0.1.0
- initial release