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If you know some javascript you can do quite a bit with mixxx in terms of mapping and skinning and there is a lot of work that is being done to get mixxx level with the other programs… The problem is that it is open source so relying on people spending their free time coding it, this means updates take a long time to be rolled out.

map everything to it LOL

I would get a good VST filter like “philta” and map that to the filter knob.

the encoders would be loop size unshifted and loop move while shifted and looping otherwise track jump the size of the loop selected. the other encoder’s not sure about

I would get a VST reverb like “arts acoustic reverb”, an echo/delay “ramp_delay” is nice and bitcrusher and hard map those to the effects section as they are the most useful IMO.

The grid would be expanded by using the smaller buttons to shift it so I had 8 hot cues, 8 different sized “rollit” loop rolls. on another grid I would have the “efx_1000 delay” effect mapped and the last would be the “beatslicer”.

I would use the lower velocity sensitive pads for transport, effects, and sampler in their respective hard shifts.

then map jogfx to the jog wheels. for things like a pitched loop roll, filter, delay, pingpong delay, etc…

by that stage you should have run out of controls. I like to have everything hard mapped so the control does the same thing everytime, Im not keen on using default style mapping as you can’t control multiple parameters on one control that way and when you incorporate VST’s there is usually a few sliders that need to move at once in varying degrees.

this is why anyone who produces music to be played on ipod’s/radio/TV will have 3 or 4 different types of speakers when producing and doing the final mixdown as these playback formats sound very different to a club system.

Hip Hop is the same, it’s most likely going to be played in a car or on a big home stereo so should have the final mixdown similar speakers, as any decently loud system will make the track sound much brighter than your flat studio monitors.

When your mastering though always keep in the back of your mind that less is more. If you don’t redline or compress your audio too much you will have a dynamic sounding track. And if you want a sound louder try turning down all the other noises and make some space to hear it in the mix before turning it up.

Also a decent spectrum analyser VST will save you a lot of time and help you to fill al the frequencies with the appropriate level of sound.

it’s the same as USB, but you do need a midi to usb converter to get it in your computer.

The only real use for the midi on it is to map the crossfader if you are doing video performances, but you could run the whole thing as a midi controller if you wanted, but then you have just wasted all the expensive engineered circuitry that makes the Xone sound so good.

Spend the money on the best videocard you can afford. Then in VDJ Pro you can use freeframe effects from Video editing and VJ software in all their glory. There is a large online community of developers for free and paid freeframe effects of which you can use in VDJ Pro.

The one thing Serato has over VDJ is the transitions are generally better, but their is an SDK available to make your own if you know any programming languages.

You can sync it using the midi clock and “JACK” the sound from traktor into ableton, don’t know how well it works if you change the pitch but it should be okay for a constant tempo… The thing is that if you are doing this no doubt you will be syncing in traktor, then using the eq3 and the effects of ableton for the final mixing.. So really you should probably just focus on ableton as traktor will only be playing the track and sending the midi clock.

If you do decide to use both get zestoi’s free midimasher app. I have had many conversations with him about it and he has set it up as a hub for all your controllers, but to further that you can send some controls on the same controller to ableton and some to traktor as well as virtual shift layers to do it all for you. It is a very good program and Pete loves helping people and talking about his creation.

Traktor’s beatmasher is the same as serato’s roll…

@terry for VDJ rollit is the business, It allows you to chain it behind or infront of other effects aswell as being able to modify the playback speed so you can make a perfect replica of the pioneer cdj-400 roll with your jogs. If you don’t want anything fancy “looproll” is perfect accept that you can’t chain it, but it gives you perfect loops everytime… If you want non quantized sizes like 3/4 or 3/2 just turn the quantize button off and it still gives perfect loops although you do need to map the specific slider positions eg.

effect ‘looproll’ slider 2 32.5%

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If NI was in partnership with stienburg for “traktor dj mixer”I wonder why they never implemented VST’s as stienburg are the creators of the VST standard?