1) Good spot ! yeah that was a typo i never noticed until you just mentioned itmidijay wrote:ok, so this looks awesome and i seem to have understood the pretty diagrams and got the setup working, but i have a few questions, mainly about the buttons for swapping dominant frequencies between the deck. this is probably because i've never used ableton before and am not familiar with the midi mapping options as i am in traktor.
so here goes.
in the first article on DJTT your last picture shows how to map the buttons (you've coloured them purple & blue).
1) you've titled your racks SC A, CUE A, SC B, SCA A in the picture. I presume the final rack is referring to CUE B and that's just a typo?
2) the way these buttons respond for me is that pressing & holding the button i've mapped for 'Low Off/On' changes the value from 0 to 127. As soon as I release the button it goes back to zero. Shouldn't the button work as a toggle rather than a hold? Plus, it doesn't seem that the button effects anything else in any of the racks, but maybe I'm not seeing what it does due to my lack of familiarity with Ableton. Also, my buttons are back lit, so it would be nice if the light stayed on (it is lit while being held down).
3) the buttons mapped for 'High Off/On' also works only when held. I notice however when it goes to 127 that the B compressors turn on and the A compressors turn off. But, again, only when held, not as a toggle?
4) My cue buttons work 100% in terms of functionality, but how can I tell ableton to 'light' them up?
On the whole your article is awesome and has made me explore a direction I vowed I would avoid. Your article was pretty clear and with very little effort I am managing to get Deck A and Deck B sound from traktor, into Ableton, and can mix for final output with volume faders and crossfaders and not loose Cueing functionality. So hands down praise to you on your work, I think I might just need some newbie tips.
Thanks.
MidiJay
2) What midi controller at you using ? Make sure that the midi message is sending a 127 on the down press and a 0 on the up press - this will make the knobs act as a toggle and not a hold.
3) Thats right one compressor is switched off while the other is switched on at the same time
4)If your controller responds to LED midi messages on the same midi message as the button that is sent then it should light up showing its activated.
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