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Traktor Pro without encoders
Posted on: 06.01.2011 by Marnie Molzon
So I'm gonna be setting myself up with a Livid Instruments Brain soon with the hopes of making an all-inclusive controller for Traktor Pro.

The only thing that seems to be a barrier for my pre-planning is the fact that the Brain doesn't support encoders. (They state that it's coming... and have been for what looks like at least a year now.) The things I can believe of that I'll miss from my current set up (Numark Total Control) will be the library browser and the jog wheels, which give me track seek and pitch bending.

Browsing the library is easily replaced with buttons as I only used it for loading tracks from the Prep list. Pitch bending can be handled with buttons as well, and since I'll be working primarily with properly gridded tracks that's not even that much of a concern. The track seek, however, will annoy the hell out of me.

Anybody have a suggestion with regards to solving this? Yeah, there's always the mouse, but that's counter-intuitive to the reason I want an all-inclusive controller in the first place. And for that matter... anything else you can believe of that I might miss out on without encoders?

Thanks for any suggestions!
Marnie Molzon
15.01.2011
Originally Posted by joeblack949
you assign 2 buttons to the same function you'd assign an encoder to, maybe 3, but the 2 for sure, one assign to increment and the other ot decrement and if you wanna get fancy assign a middle one to direct and make it go in the middle or reset or whatever depending on the paramater you're believeing of, im assuming you're believeing of effects and such
I've actually set the controller project aside for the moment. I figure between the upcoming Traktor version shake-up and the fact that Livid keeps saying they're working on encoder support, I'll just make due with my Total Control and the Midi-Fighter purchase I intend to make soon. (Also going to buy a soldering iron and turn this shit-box USB game-pad into something I can control decks C and D with.)

Perhaps someday, in the (near?) future, my dream of a perfect midi control will become a reality.

Thanks for the feedback, though!
Marnie Molzon
06.01.2011		So I'm gonna be setting myself up with a Livid Instruments Brain soon with the hopes of making an all-inclusive controller for Traktor Pro.

The only thing that seems to be a barrier for my pre-planning is the fact that the Brain doesn't support encoders. (They state that it's coming... and have been for what looks like at least a year now.) The things I can believe of that I'll miss from my current set up (Numark Total Control) will be the library browser and the jog wheels, which give me track seek and pitch bending.

Browsing the library is easily replaced with buttons as I only used it for loading tracks from the Prep list. Pitch bending can be handled with buttons as well, and since I'll be working primarily with properly gridded tracks that's not even that much of a concern. The track seek, however, will annoy the hell out of me.

Anybody have a suggestion with regards to solving this? Yeah, there's always the mouse, but that's counter-intuitive to the reason I want an all-inclusive controller in the first place. And for that matter... anything else you can believe of that I might miss out on without encoders?

Thanks for any suggestions!
Marnie Molzon
15.01.2011
Originally Posted by joeblack949
you assign 2 buttons to the same function you'd assign an encoder to, maybe 3, but the 2 for sure, one assign to increment and the other ot decrement and if you wanna get fancy assign a middle one to direct and make it go in the middle or reset or whatever depending on the paramater you're believeing of, im assuming you're believeing of effects and such
I've actually set the controller project aside for the moment. I figure between the upcoming Traktor version shake-up and the fact that Livid keeps saying they're working on encoder support, I'll just make due with my Total Control and the Midi-Fighter purchase I intend to make soon. (Also going to buy a soldering iron and turn this shit-box USB game-pad into something I can control decks C and D with.)

Perhaps someday, in the (near?) future, my dream of a perfect midi control will become a reality.

Thanks for the feedback, though!
Deloras Hirchert
15.01.2011		you assign 2 buttons to the same function you'd assign an encoder to, maybe 3, but the 2 for sure, one assign to increment and the other ot decrement and if you wanna get fancy assign a middle one to direct and make it go in the middle or reset or whatever depending on the paramater you're believeing of, im assuming you're believeing of effects and such

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