S4 light show

S4 light show
Posted on: 25.01.2011 by Charline Dye
Yul's flashy lights made me want some too, lol.

Video is not as bad as the cover pic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcRMuTVEUk

found my laptop's limits on midi out msgs. If I map 1 more to what you see & it overloadds the cpu and locks up. Just did this for giggles, and a little learning. (as I had never mapped an led b/f)

Sorry for the crappy video, but my cheap lil camera hates the dark.
Murray Hoffa
26.01.2011
Originally Posted by haze324
ahhhh ok. closed traktor, reopened it. put in midi mode and now my S4 looks like a blinking Xmas tree!!

Van - where do you find the CC notes for each LED?
You can find the CC Notes by opening up the controller editor the "MIDI Out Notes" are the same as the "MIDI In Notes"


Now @Van Gogo, I was just curious to know what are the values you used for the different LED colors, I'm currently working on an LED/Effects Midi Mode mapping, which is turning out pretty sweet at the moment but it could do with a few tweaks! :P
Nedra Fresneda
26.01.2011
Originally Posted by haze324
i got it. but no lights?

I see the tsi, i see the master output and all the beat phase monitors, I set it to all ports.....and nothing.

any ideas?
wild guessing since i havent test it yet.

tried disabling the default map? (if it's mapped in NHL) or switched to midi mode?
Charline Dye
25.01.2011
Originally Posted by padi_04
I downloaded it with my win7 work pc :B powered by a might (drumroll) PIV.

they still wonder why it takes so long to render edits...

maybe it's because i use Chrome
I was using IE, but I still have a bad case of Mac envy that's not going away for a long time, lol.
Nedra Fresneda
25.01.2011
Originally Posted by VanGogo
Yeah Padi the wonderful Mac I can't afford would d/l it correctly, and would probably let me map even more flashy lights too.
VanGogo has Mac envy
I downloaded it with my win7 work pc :B powered by a might (drumroll) PIV.

they still wonder why it takes so long to render edits...

maybe it's because i use Chrome
Elliot Dunphy
26.11.2011
I wanted to set my lights to blink... it could possibly make beatmatching easier.
King Mascarinas
16.11.2011
Its cool to see the different colors you can do on the s4. I am going to throw a couple of these pretty colors into my personal mapping, that will look nice at shows
Charline Dye
15.11.2011
No. Unless you want to open it up and change the LEDs.
The hotcue buttons already have different colors. The cues do not.
Yvonne Spirou
15.11.2011
Nice blinky lights

So, is there an easy way to change the default colours of the S4?

For example make the Headphone CUEs white..
Murray Hoffa
25.01.2011
Ahh no worries, I had another look at your video and realised that i was looking at the wrong Flashy lights! :P

That Bomes looks interesting, although as i'm pretty much only after learning how to even map my controller/LED's i believe i'll leave that for either a future project or someone else...

If anyone figures out how to easily change the color's hook me up! xD
Charline Dye
25.01.2011
Sorry was taking a nap. Thanks for helping Haze out Padi & Paulo.

The colors were just what was there. I wanted to do color changes on the cue buttons, but they don't map that way. The colors are tied to hot cue states. Some one with Bomes could make a bad ass color changing S4 mapping.
Murray Hoffa
26.01.2011
Originally Posted by haze324
ahhhh ok. closed traktor, reopened it. put in midi mode and now my S4 looks like a blinking Xmas tree!!

Van - where do you find the CC notes for each LED?
You can find the CC Notes by opening up the controller editor the "MIDI Out Notes" are the same as the "MIDI In Notes"


Now @Van Gogo, I was just curious to know what are the values you used for the different LED colors, I'm currently working on an LED/Effects Midi Mode mapping, which is turning out pretty sweet at the moment but it could do with a few tweaks! :P
Julissa Serrone
26.01.2011
ahhhh ok. closed traktor, reopened it. put in midi mode and now my S4 looks like a blinking Xmas tree!!

Van - where do you find the CC notes for each LED?
Nedra Fresneda
26.01.2011
Originally Posted by haze324
i got it. but no lights?

I see the tsi, i see the master output and all the beat phase monitors, I set it to all ports.....and nothing.

any ideas?
wild guessing since i havent test it yet.

tried disabling the default map? (if it's mapped in NHL) or switched to midi mode?
Hailey Westen
26.01.2011
video works here... fair play man.
nice
Leeanna Ayla
26.01.2011
Shouldn't the ports be the S4?
Julissa Serrone
26.01.2011
i got it. but no lights?

I see the tsi, i see the master output and all the beat phase monitors, I set it to all ports.....and nothing.

any ideas?
Charline Dye
25.01.2011
Originally Posted by padi_04
I downloaded it with my win7 work pc :B powered by a might (drumroll) PIV.

they still wonder why it takes so long to render edits...

maybe it's because i use Chrome
I was using IE, but I still have a bad case of Mac envy that's not going away for a long time, lol.
Julissa Serrone
25.01.2011
Thanks man....I'll check it out toevening for sure!
Good stuff.
Nedra Fresneda
25.01.2011
Originally Posted by VanGogo
Yeah Padi the wonderful Mac I can't afford would d/l it correctly, and would probably let me map even more flashy lights too.
VanGogo has Mac envy
I downloaded it with my win7 work pc :B powered by a might (drumroll) PIV.

they still wonder why it takes so long to render edits...

maybe it's because i use Chrome
Charline Dye
25.01.2011
Yeah Padi the wonderful Mac I can't afford would d/l it correctly, and would probably let me map even more flashy lights too.
VanGogo has Mac envy
Nedra Fresneda
25.01.2011
Originally Posted by VanGogo
Right click save target, change file type to tsi, then save.
Not sure I did this right. I exported the controller settings only, uploaded to my biz website. When I went to download it to test it, the file type it wanted to save it in was xml. So I assume you change to all file types and change the extension to tsi.
Let me know if this is working.
Saves directly as TSI here. will try it when I get back home, thx!
Charline Dye
25.01.2011
Right click save target, change file type to tsi.
Not sure I did this right. I exported the controller settings only, uploaded to my biz website. When I went to download it to test it, the file type it wanted to save it in was xml. So I assume you change to all file types and change the extension to tsi.
Let me know if this is working.

*I tried it out and it's working. You do get all my controllers though S4 hid, S4lights, and Oxygen 49. So if you have anything customized, save your TSI so you can reload it after checking mine out.

I also would delete the S4 lights mapping after checking it out. Like I said b/f, one more output msg and the cpu spikes on my puter. So I wouldn't want this running while playing as usual.
Nedra Fresneda
25.01.2011
Originally Posted by haze324
.tsi or it didn't happen
pretty please for those of us blocked by effin Sony
Charline Dye
25.01.2011
lol haze.

Sorry must be the Alicia Keys song. Did it late last nite, and wasn't believeing. Just used the song because of the range of dynamics in it made all the lights dance nicely. Had I been more awake, I would have used something much older, or obscure.
Julissa Serrone
25.01.2011
.tsi or it didn't happen
Leeanna Ayla
25.01.2011
Looks good. I hear Alicia Keys here.
Nedra Fresneda
25.01.2011
great, can't watch it because Sony Music blocked the content to my country.
Random X
25.01.2011
No problems watching the vid overhere.
Julissa Serrone
25.01.2011
holy shit man,.....Sony Music blocked your video in 2.2 seconds. What bullshit. Still interested in seeing what you did, i want some flashing lights as well.

Edit: it blocked it in my part of the world right now. Shyte!!

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