Reply to My midi workaround for the beat counter

Bout a S4 a week ago, and It's become pretty clear that using the S4 for creative DJing in it's native mode is a joke. You're literally fighting against the controller being set up for traditional DJing.

Given their track record NI's, I don't see this improving unless people start bitching. My new goal is for everyone to move away from the garbage native mode and start coming up with midi mappings. This will open a lot of possibilities for using the Kontrol S4, and we'll get some awesome mappings. Also, NI might actually get off their asses and fix the Kontrol S4 software, so that we can actually work WITH the software, not against it.

The biggest problem people seem to have with midi mode, and the only feature exclusive to native mode, is the digital display. This is important, because of the beat jump So I've been working on a way to get past this.

What I've come up with is as follows:

Seek position is still done with the loop move encoder, with 7 levels of sensitivity. To set the encoder to default (3 currently) you press the encoder. To increase or decrease the seek sensitivity, you hold down the move encoder, and turn the size encoder.

This means you still have to check the loop size of your screen, as the display doesn't work, but you can still control the seek sensitivity, like you can in native mode.



what do you guys believe?

If you hadn't noticed... I'm really cranky at NI right now for being so bad at everything.
Seriously, does anyone know if it is even possible to change the midi sensitivity of the jogwheels? The general consensus seems to be no, and NI's hopefully "working on it"... If any other manufacturer made a controller on which you couldn't change the jog sensitivity, believe about what the reviews would be like.