Reply to Coming soon, to a Farmpad near you...

Hello all,

I have taken some time and coded both a cfg file for farmpad, and a traktor pro tsi to go with it. No big deal, but I would like to offer this to the people who are either bored with their padkontrols and own a mac, or to people who know about farmpad and just can't figure out how to use it. Below are just a few of the functions I plan on having just on scene 1. I believe this program allows for 64 scenes total! Anyhow, here's a pic of what I have so far...but you can remap it any way you like, however I am trying to go for a very nice workflow with this and I wouldn't mind sharing it with the community at all. Perhaps some padKONTROL owners would give me some feedback on my setup so far (I have so many ideas in my head, I just can't decide on which are the most practical of them...including making the bottom left two buttons toggle between FX on the kaoss pad, or having one toggle between another deck effect, and then that shift button being a roll function on the kaoss pad)

Now, I am doing this on farmpad, so be mindful of that. All of the buttons can be used for anything...in groups, as triggers/toggles, hold buttons... you name it. Anyhow...any feedback would be awesome. I have an idea of what I want, but what would YOU guys and gals like to see on such a controller? Maybe I can learn a few things from everybody's input...it might even persuade me one way or another as far as creating my workflow.

Right now, the top 4 pads are set up just like the midifighter. The bottom 8 are as well - for cues 1-8 with shift delete of course. The ''hold'' button on the pad kontrol toggles the 8 lower (hotcue) pads to become functional for a loop roll starting with 4 and all the way down to /32. The third row from the bottom also becomes Set loop 8 > Set loop 16 > Set loop 32 > Loop Active, respectively, in this hold mode. There are snap and quantize buttons on the pK, as well as a full screen button (going COMEPLETELY hands free from the MBP, with the exception of launching traktor, but I'm sure there's a way to do that too!)

The 4 vertical buttons next to the pads directly at the upper left are deck focus control with led feedback. A cool feature, is that when you select decks A and B, it stays in 2Dintmix mode. When you select decks C or D, it goes into 4dintmix mode,and back when you use A or B UNLESS you have the ''C&D'' button selected on the far left (see more about this later) So the pK will only control the active deck with whatever input you are using.....EXCEPT

...For the EQ section.
There are two two columns of three rows of buttons that are pictured below, labeled HK,MK, and LK...well, I'm sure you can guess what that is.
The left column controls the EQ Kills for deck A, while the second column controls the EQ Kills for deck B. When the ''C&D'' button is pressed, it acts as a shift key for the EQ kills. The deck A column now becomes the deck C column, and the deck B column becomes the deck D column. This ''C&D'' button is also a 4dintmix toggle button so when it is on, you are stuck within 4deck mode, despite which deck focus you selected (mentioned above)

Well that's all for now. I have a few more cooler FX features on this thing but I'm not sure I am going to stick with them just as of yet but...feel free to held me add to this by giving me some feedback, good or bad! I plan on finishing over the weekend, but it will be a long project I am sure because if my style changes...so will my setup.

(Please forgive any grammatical errors due to lack of sleep)