Just got my midi Fighter today and Im unsure....
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Just got my midi Fighter today and Im unsure.... Posted on: 03.05.2011 by Brent Mcdermot Hey guys I got my Midi Fighter today and its the BOMB i love it alot! I downloaded the Instant Gratification Mapping v1.0.3 and I'm not sure if its working the way it's meant to.... The top four buttons don't work in deck A but work in Deck B and vice versa the rest work in deck A and not in deck B... is there a way to make them all work in both decks? or how to switch from decks when needed... P.s Im using Traktor Pro 2 with an S4 Thanks guys Vaj | |
| Tatum Ansaldo 06.05.2011 | Hahaha... |
| Kristofer Krauel 06.05.2011 | FullEnglish strikes again!!! |
| Tatum Ansaldo 04.05.2011 | Glad to be of service! |
| Brent Mcdermot 04.05.2011 | I got it working!!! lol from one of your old posts when you helped someone else i thought maybe i was in the wrong binary channel aswell so i mapped a play button to one of the buttons and it worked which made me realise i was in the wrong channel... and took me for ever to find it but i did thanks for your older posts on another post your a champ for helping me so much Vaj ps i love the midi Fighter now |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | hmmm... and with bank 1 engaged (top left button) and a track playing on deck A, do you get no response? but the control light still flashes? If so, i'm stumped! |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | here you go man i hope you find something |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | I can't unzip it, I'm getting an invalid archive message. If you save JUST the preferences window as a jpeg file it should be small enough to attach. |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | yeah the led's work and they stay light up pic was too big so made it zip.... also thanks once again for helping... i guess anything to get out of doing real work :P LOL Vaj |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | I'm at work so I can't show you my MF, but point 5 looks correct and that's the important one. If you restart the MF now that you have 4 banks mode enabled, can you select the 4 banks along the top with the top row of buttons? Whichever of the top 4 buttons you press, the associated LED should stay lit until you press another one. If that works, 4 banks is working fine. If there's still a problem, it's most likely mapping related. Post a screenshot of your preferences window on the controller manager tab with the deck A mapping selected. |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | I know Im being a pest LOL but you believe you could show me what yours looks like in all 7 steps of menu mode? here's mine and you tell me if any is not right... 1 # . . . . . . . * * * * o . . o 2 . # . . . * * * * * * * o . . o 3 . . # . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . .# . . . . * * * * . . . . 5 . . . . # . . . . .* * o . . o 6 . . . . . # . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . # . * * * * . . . . |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | I'm not sure I understand you. Here's the section of the guide:
5. Select Fourbanks Mode
------------------------ Code:
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# . . . <- Flashing exit key
* * * * <- Selection bar graph (three states)
o . . o <- increment/decrement
increment/decrement keys to move through the different options. . . . . = Fourbanks Off . . * * = Fourbanks Internal * * * * = Fourbanks External NOTE: If Fourbanks External is selected, the Digital Inputs menu page will be disabled. 6. Select Expansion Port Digital Inputs --------------------------------------- Code:
. . . .
. # . . <- Flashing exit key
* * * * <- one LED for each digital input, click to toggle
. . . .
external digital input pins and track their state using a debounce buffer. Each LED can be individually toggled to enable MIDI events to be read from that digital input. NOTE: If Fourbanks External mode has been selected, this menu page is disabled as the digital inputs are being used as Bank Select keys. You should have nothing activated from point 6, make sure by going into that section and ensuring that all external inputs are off. EDIT: and reflashing is pretty simple, just follow the guidelines in the sticky thread. Basically you get your MF into bootloader mode and run the program, but it tells you exactly how to do it with diagrams and if you have problems then that thread has many solutions: Standard method: http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=22461 Other methods: http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=11511 Make sure you follow ALL STEPS and READ THOROUGHLY |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | re flashing seems hard i don't really understand it :s any other way? i believe i understand why it was not working... when i changed them to four decks in "5. Select Fourbanks Mode".... "6 Select Expansion Port Digital Inputs" would still stay led up when it was meant to become disabled... making my buttons disabled after Menu mode was over.... i fixed it all but now traktor wont read the buttons.... but knows they are there because CTRL is flashing when i push them.... any ideas? |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | reflashing never hurts. Then reimport the Instant Gratification .tsi with the big import button (see my sig) and assign all the inputs and outputs for all 4 mappings to the midifighter. |
| Sharyn Prado 03.05.2011 | I would re-flash your midi fighter, you can find out how to do this here: http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=11511 |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | LOL ok i now have gotten all leds to work and traktor knows it working because of the ctrl button is going off but now its not going any effects LOL my midi fighter hates me LOL what can i do to fix it now? Vajra |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | Im saying No led's work now... even when not in traktor... but work when you plug it in for that little start up and menu mode works.... also No effects work.... nothing lighting up in traktor. Vaj Thanks for you help so far |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | when you say they don't work, do they still light up when you press them? Does the little control light in traktor (in the top bar) still light up when you press a button? make sure you've got ALL FOUR instant gratification mappings (decks A to D) assigned to the correct input and output ports. |
| Brent Mcdermot 03.05.2011 | i dont know what i did but i must of turned something off in menu mode... because now the buttons dont work anymore but will work in menu mode what should i do now? got a feeling its an easy fix but i don't see it Vaj Thanks |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | yeh, just make sure you select the correct MFs in your input/output settings in controller manager. |
| Sharyn Prado 03.05.2011 | So you can use the two mappings together? |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | so true |
| Sharyn Prado 03.05.2011 | Yeah, it was only limiting because I was using just one MF at that time, and when your a bit tanked you can sometimes forget which deck it focused lol |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | I didn't find focus mode limiting when i was using it, but we're all different! Keep experimenting and i'm sure you'll find a combo you like. Who knows, maybe the new mapping when it finally arrives will be just what you need! |
| Sharyn Prado 03.05.2011 | I have two Midi Fighters, so it would be a combination, Im bascially interested so that I can effect both decks and the sample decks. Im still trying to suss out what would be the best combination for mixing on TP2 Although the Focus mode can be a bit confusing, and limiting. Im still believeing Kontrol X1 and two midi fighters plus the ecler evo 5, Ive reprogrammed the MF's to loose the bottom 4 buttons to the sample deck triggers at the moment, but theres always a better way just a bit stumped at the moment. |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | You mean on one midifighter? No, that won't work because the IG mapping requires 4 banks mode while the deckalized uses standard (16 button) mode. Flashflooder (the DJTT mapping guru) has actually promised us a combination mapping of the 2, offering instant FX and transport control, but this has been delayed for ages and I have no idea why. here's the link to the thread: http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=24548 |
| Sharyn Prado 03.05.2011 | @ Fullenglish, your pretty savvy with these sort of things. Can you use the Deckalised A/B Focus mode along side the instant gratification mode or does it cause conflicts? |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.05.2011 | You need to enable 4 banks internal mode. Read point 5 of this: http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=9961 for a guide. |
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