Reply to Ideas for 3 Possible Mappings

Basically my current controller setup is:

My S4 controls all of the basic transports, headphone cues, and EQs.

My MIDI Fighter controls my Instant Gratification Effects, Hot Cues, and other more advanced transports.

I have a Maschine, but I believe I'd rather leave it in the studio than bring it to my gigs. It's too big and the pads aren't the best for mixing, where quick light movements are essential.

I have a Novation Launchpad, which is pretty much collecting dust. The MF does all that I got from it in terms of effects, and the transports are covered by the S4 and MF ATM.

After watching Ean's Oxygen8 Mapping explanation video, in which the footswitch acts as a shift key that allows the white keys of the Coupe De Ville to become Slicer Parameters, I wanted to incorporate that into a generally cleaner looking setup without having to take out the MIDI keyboard.

I basically have 3 routes for this mapping. I can either take my existing MF mapping, which is a combo between deckalized and instant grat. Here the first 2 banks are instant grat for decks A/B and the last 2 are cues/transports for A/B. Basically, I'd consolidate the cues/transports into 8 cues per deck with no other transport controls, and make the bottom row of buttons into the slicers for each deck. I really like this mapping the best, it seems the most logical with the 4 slicer values for each deck, which seems the most reasonable. This would consolidate space by only bringing the MF and S4 to gigs, which will be good for my back.

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(I just chose random variables for the slicer. They have no meaning.)

The second route again only deals with the MF. Along the same lines of the mapping above, I could consolidate the cues to 6 per deck (the maximum I have set on any track is 7) This would free one bank. I'd use the free bank to control up to 12 Parameters for the Slicer. I honestly don't know what I'd do with 12 slicer parameters, but there's always that chance that I may need it. This seems like the least likely idea.

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Same idea with the multiple slicer params, just a whole lot more of them.

The 3rd mapping idea would basically be a combination of the second and first mapping in which I have the top 4 buttons under the bank selection row be my 4 cues for each deck. The 2 rows below would act as the slicers there. The basic idea of this is so that I have more slicer params without losing my cues. Again, not sure what I'll do with 8 params, 4 seems quite enough, but I honestly have no clue what I'd do with the extra 4. No need for an image here, just take the first one and replace the second row from the bottom with slicers.


I guess that I'm looking for a sound somewhat similar to what the slicer from the Novation Twitch gives you, but I want more control over exactly when and how the sound comes in.

If anyone has any more insight into any other possible mappings, be sure to post them. I like this idea and I'm gonna start working on the first mapping as soon as it hit "Submit New Thread" I'm always open to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, so if you have an idea that would benefit me, please share. We all learn from eachother in this community and the one bro who decides not to share is only holding themselves back from the potential insight of the others here.