NinjaGinge
I've been using Virtual DJ for my own enjoyment and some gigs on campus (college student) for almost a year now, but only now am I taking the time to look carefully at the finer points of the program and all the options presented by virtual dj (just upgraded to pro today). One I happen to be very currious about right now is custom mappings. I've got a few things I'm wondering about, but since I'm just starting to learn about all this I've condensed them down into simple yes/no questions for the moment so i don't waste more of anyone's time than I have to.
I've experimented with doing simple remapping on my mixtrack pro, but there are a few things I'm curious about that other pages on the site haven't answered, or have not answered with great clarity. I know, at least with the skin I'm using since I haven't checked them all, that I can only define 8 different samples. Is it in ANY WAY possible to map more than 8 samples to different buttons? Say I wanted to map specific sample files to just keys on my keyboard? I'm assuming if it could be done that would either be through defining more than 8 samples or giving a single button the command to both load and play a specific file on one of the 8 slots (if such a thing could be done that is)
Next is about remapping different effects, especially ones downloaded from here. Will the verbs for the effects I download (aka don't come stock with the program) show up in the file English.xml in the Documents/VirtualDJ/Languages/ with the others? And I should be able to re-map these effects to specific buttons also should I choose to do so right? Just for clarification (though I assume I did an ok job when asking the original question), I'm not asking if I can remap the "turn effect on" button, but more so a specific effect to a single button I could activate at any time without searching for it in the program.
I'm sorry, what I wanted to just be a simple few questions turned into a much longer post than I wanted it to be. Sorry about that. Anyway, for now I'm still learning and experimenting so I don't necessarily need (unless you're feeling so generous) in depth answers, simple yes/no would be splendid.
I've experimented with doing simple remapping on my mixtrack pro, but there are a few things I'm curious about that other pages on the site haven't answered, or have not answered with great clarity. I know, at least with the skin I'm using since I haven't checked them all, that I can only define 8 different samples. Is it in ANY WAY possible to map more than 8 samples to different buttons? Say I wanted to map specific sample files to just keys on my keyboard? I'm assuming if it could be done that would either be through defining more than 8 samples or giving a single button the command to both load and play a specific file on one of the 8 slots (if such a thing could be done that is)
Next is about remapping different effects, especially ones downloaded from here. Will the verbs for the effects I download (aka don't come stock with the program) show up in the file English.xml in the Documents/VirtualDJ/Languages/ with the others? And I should be able to re-map these effects to specific buttons also should I choose to do so right? Just for clarification (though I assume I did an ok job when asking the original question), I'm not asking if I can remap the "turn effect on" button, but more so a specific effect to a single button I could activate at any time without searching for it in the program.
I'm sorry, what I wanted to just be a simple few questions turned into a much longer post than I wanted it to be. Sorry about that. Anyway, for now I'm still learning and experimenting so I don't necessarily need (unless you're feeling so generous) in depth answers, simple yes/no would be splendid.
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 2:17 am
synthet1c
you can map 12 samples as that is how many slots there are, just use "sampler 11 play" etc...
you can load up one or more sampler slots with one button that is just
sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample1.mp3" & sampler 2 load "filepath\to\sample2.mp3" & etc...
combined it would be
sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample1.mp3" & sampler 1 play
for the effects they all respond to
effect slider 2
effect button 1
effect active
if you want to specify the name of and effect to work with a knob/slider/button/key you can with
effect "effect_name" slider 5
effect "effect_name" active
eg
effect "beatmasher_group" active
you can then combine everything if you want to, this would be for a button
effect 'echo_efx500' active while_pressed & effect 'echo_efx500' button 3 1 & effect 'echo_efx500' slider 1 50%
http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript_verbs.html
http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript.html
you can load up one or more sampler slots with one button that is just
sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample1.mp3" & sampler 2 load "filepath\to\sample2.mp3" & etc...
combined it would be
sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample1.mp3" & sampler 1 play
for the effects they all respond to
effect slider 2
effect button 1
effect active
if you want to specify the name of and effect to work with a knob/slider/button/key you can with
effect "effect_name" slider 5
effect "effect_name" active
eg
effect "beatmasher_group" active
you can then combine everything if you want to, this would be for a button
effect 'echo_efx500' active while_pressed & effect 'echo_efx500' button 3 1 & effect 'echo_efx500' slider 1 50%
http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript_verbs.html
http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJscript.html
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 2:44 am
NinjaGinge
synthet1c wrote :
combined it would be
sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample1.mp3" & sampler 1 play
combined it would be
sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample1.mp3" & sampler 1 play
synthet1c wrote :
effect "beatmasher_group" active
effect "beatmasher_group" active
Sweet, these are almost exactly what i was wondering about. Thanks man.
Just furthering my understanding of these capabilities here, say I had a launchpad or something of the like. I should theoretically be able to map 64 different samples using the format
"sampler 1 load "filepath\to\sample.vdj & Sampler 1 play
right?
And the same thing with loading and activating effects? Not that I would ever be using 64 different effects on a whim, but I'm curious.
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 2:36 pm
NinjaGinge
Sorry this is in hardware by the way, I originally had some questions about using the mixtrack and midi controllers together but I answered those and ended up getting curious about mapping logistics. My bad, seems like I should have put it in software.
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 2:45 pm
synthet1c
nope hardware is the right place for mapping...
yep when you load the samples, it will do it in a split second so you can have as many as you want and you can run as many effects as your computer will handle. Which a netbook can handle about 10 at the same time depending on the effects used.
what I have found in the last couple of days though is if you get effects that have wet/dry parameters you can turn all the effects on in the order you want the signal to travel and it will remain chained that way, for a midi fighter mapping I am making at the moment it uses 3 effects in a chain then other effects on top of them. I have
effects that filter the live output --> effects that sample and repeat the live output are activated when required
gate --> crusher --> lfo filter --> then effects that sample -- > reverb --> delay --> echo --> echo doppler
unfortunately anything that samples the buffer like the amazing rolls and mashers doesn't work this way, so hopefully atomix can change the way they interact so we could put a masher at the start and then let the signal pass through the chain of effects. Then tracktor will have nothing on VDJ in terms of functionality because we have better quality vst's at our disposal, they don't :)
yep when you load the samples, it will do it in a split second so you can have as many as you want and you can run as many effects as your computer will handle. Which a netbook can handle about 10 at the same time depending on the effects used.
what I have found in the last couple of days though is if you get effects that have wet/dry parameters you can turn all the effects on in the order you want the signal to travel and it will remain chained that way, for a midi fighter mapping I am making at the moment it uses 3 effects in a chain then other effects on top of them. I have
effects that filter the live output --> effects that sample and repeat the live output are activated when required
gate --> crusher --> lfo filter --> then effects that sample -- > reverb --> delay --> echo --> echo doppler
unfortunately anything that samples the buffer like the amazing rolls and mashers doesn't work this way, so hopefully atomix can change the way they interact so we could put a masher at the start and then let the signal pass through the chain of effects. Then tracktor will have nothing on VDJ in terms of functionality because we have better quality vst's at our disposal, they don't :)
Posté Wed 14 Dec 11 @ 4:01 pm