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  • July 31, 2012 at 7:29 pm #1009016
    synthet1c
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    your best bet is to download the Terminal mix 4 mapping from the VDJ Forum and make some small changes to make it work with the TM2. You will need VDJ Pro to download mappers.

    [the picture is a link]

    Reloop Terminal Mix 4 1.0

    Author: jpboggis

    Aside from that you have two choices…

    1. you can create your own definition file so VDJ recognises the device and you can use all of the controls with full resolution and make the LED’s work. http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/Controller_Definition.html

    2. You can use the “simple midi wrapper” to map your controller with basic functionality excluding any non standard midi messages and LED’s. Using this method you will need to allocate a deck focus for every script and map both sides of the controller eg

    deck left play_pause
    deck 1 cue_stop
    deck 2 eq_high
    deck right eq_low
    deck 3 eq_mid
    deck 4 volume

    For encoders in “simple midi” you must use the following formula
    param_smaller 50% ? action if counter clockwise modifier : action if clockwise modifier

    **the modifier can be an integer or percentage value**

    So for your example of a touch sensitive jogwheel it’s

    param_smaller 50% ? touchwheel –0.05% : touchwheel +0.05%

    **change the modifier value to change the sensitivity, and don’t forget to allocate a deck it should operate on in the mapping**

    http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript.html

    August 1, 2012 at 9:47 am #1009063
    Ophkey
    Participant

    thanks, i downloaded the tm4 mapping but i cant get it to work. I have place the file into my mapping folder and nothing has happened 🙁 I’v mapped the eqs, vol sliders, cross fader, play, cup and sync buttons but cant for he life of me get the jog to work properly. i’m going crazy here!!!

    August 1, 2012 at 11:14 am #1009067
    Ophkey
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    haha I wish you were my neighbour, thank you but i cant get my head round this. Oh and i’m running XP and i dont have devices in control panel. 🙁

    August 1, 2012 at 12:01 pm #1009069
    synthet1c
    Member

    https://www.google.com.au/search?q=how+to+find+hardware+id%27s+in+xp&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

    August 1, 2012 at 12:37 pm #1009071
    Ophkey
    Participant

    my hardware id say “PCIVEN_1106&DEV_3059&SUBSYS_BO121462&REV_60” no pid?! what should i do?

    August 1, 2012 at 7:05 pm #1009091
    synthet1c
    Member

    that’s the wrong hardware ID… you are looking for the hardware ID of the TM2, that is for something that connects to a PCI slot on the motherboard.

    you could also dpwnload the definer tool to get all the id’s, its in the tools section of the vdj forum.

    http://www.virtualdj.com/addons/12994/VDJ_MIDI_Controll_Definer.html

    August 1, 2012 at 8:06 pm #1009093
    Ophkey
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    you sir are a legend, ok so pid number and driver name changed, but still no joy. What next?

    August 2, 2012 at 12:11 am #1009106
    synthet1c
    Member

    now you need to use midi trace (link above) to find out the midi locations for the controls. when you move a control it will display the raw midi data. for a button it will be two lines like this

    9[COLOR=#ff0000]1[/COLOR] 1A 7F 00
    8[COLOR=#ff0000]1[/COLOR] 1A 00 00

    All you are concerned with is the red number which is the midi channel and the blue numbers which is the midi number

    this is the first of the controls defined
    <button note="0x35” name=”CRATES” channel=”0” />

    if you got the top result you would change it to
    <button note="0x1A” name=”CRATES” channel=”1” />

    absolute sliders and knobs will generally send out 128 CC messages so that many lines of raw midi data will show in miditrace, but it is the same parts you are concerned with. the green number is incremental and not important for this.

    …etc
    B[COLOR=#ff0000]4[/COLOR] 3B [COLOR=#339966]17 00[/COLOR]
    B[COLOR=#ff0000]4[/COLOR] 3B [COLOR=#339966]18 00[/COLOR]
    B[COLOR=#ff0000]4[/COLOR] 3B [COLOR=#339966]19 00[/COLOR]
    B[COLOR=#ff0000]4[/COLOR] 3B [COLOR=#339966]1A 00[/COLOR]
    B[COLOR=#ff0000]4[/COLOR] 3B [COLOR=#339966]1B 00[/COLOR]
    B[COLOR=#ff0000]4[/COLOR] 3B [COLOR=#339966]1C 00[/COLOR]
    etc…

    [COLOR=#000000]this is the first slider in the definition [/COLOR]
    [COLOR=#000000] <slider cc="0x[COLOR=#0000ff]33” name=”HEADPHONE_MIX” channel=”0” />[/COLOR][/COLOR]

    If you got the above result you would change it to
    [COLOR=#000000] <slider cc="0x[COLOR=#0000ff]3B” name=”HEADPHONE_MIX” channel=”4” />[/COLOR][/COLOR]

    Be advised this will only work if the device line and everything in it is correct & there can be no mistakes with XML, every attribute must be opened and closed with “quotation marks” or it wont work. if all the midi messages are the same then that is where the problem lies. You should start with only a few controls then make sure they work before proceeding with the rest of the definition.

    If you use notepad++ it can pick up errors and highlight them for you.
    http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

    August 2, 2012 at 7:43 am #1009113
    Ophkey
    Participant

    hey dude, Im losing patience quickly, I suck at this sort of this. I changed the sysexid and what ever cxontrols that need changing but now…nothing. when in vdj mappers tab, I get a keyboard and midi but no tm2 option. You have been a great help but I dont think I’m ever going to work this out.

    April 11, 2013 at 9:45 pm #39057
    Karl Burns
    Member

    hi i dont know if you have solved your problem or if you are still intrested in it…but i had the same problem…i went to reloop. come and download the mappers file for the controller and placed it in the mappers file in virtual dj and also the device file . oh and in the skin file too and that worked for me …dot really think it was needed in the skin file but who cares…it dont hurt to put it in all those folders

    April 12, 2013 at 7:22 am #39059
    Ophkey
    Participant

    Hi Karl,

    I took hours just to getting all the mappings tight, in the end I wasn’t happy with them so I sold my controller and brought a Novation Twitch. I found Serato is so much better then vdj and it was free.

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