Traktor F1 Patter Player instructions for TPro 3.8.0

ok after a poke around i think ive worked it out and not missing anything? Here is badly worded description:

Setup is 4 FX all assigned to deck 4 all assigned as pattern players...

• pressing "browse" lets you select which fx slot you are viewing by selecting the corresponding "stop" button at the bottom
• shift and one of those 4 stop buttons does the same
• but browse also lets you select different fx slot types per fx slot, first row of 4 lets you choose fx group; 2nd 4 single fx; 3rd row pattern player. 1-4 on each row corresponding to each of the fx slots. Makes more sense when you play with it....
• once you have selected an fx slot via either method above you can choose which pattern pack you want by turning the encoder above browse
• then top 4 encoders map to the 4 on the fx slot: volume; pattern; pitch and decay
• you can override the pattern using the 16 pads, but as soon as you turn pattern selector encoder it will overwrite your pattern
• and 4 stop buttons at bottom map to the 4 buttons on the fx slot: stop/start; sample selection "up"; sample selection "down" (use to cycle through the samples in the pack) as per the GUI; duck

thats pretty much all I can work out.

so the 4 faders do nothing and there are 6 buttons unused.... im sure there must be more that can be done with those with some more mappings...

• a button to stop all at once?
• mute all at once?
• It would be nice if you could change the pattern length like you could with the old F1 step sequencer mapping
• im sure there are more ideas ...
• And it might be nice to map the faders the same as the top row encoders....
• or use each fader as the volume control for each of the 4 fx slots...

It's ok i guess ? Not used it enough yet to see if I use that method or the shift method more. It's been ages since I used an F1. Im happy to have the 4x4 grid working though. That's the best bit. Have you got a mapping on the way too ? :)

I like the idea of using Mutes for selection then the encoder for selecting sound (and shift select for the pack). that makes sense.

shift + mute for assignment also works.

but what do you then use for start / stop and duck?

I would then like to use the 4 faders to control the 4 volumes of each fx regardless of unit selected. For some chopping fun. Would that work?

At some point they have to add pattern length too.

They could do this by shift and pattern style encoder.