Mapping something (e.g. loop size/out) to jog wheel

@Stevan:

Great news!

Good addition of the new section, and nice MacroKnob-FX settings in your mapping. Very enjoyable results. The jogwheel is simply awesome for the fine control. 😁

The RingIndicatorPosition has remained impervious to all my attempts of reading or adjusting it's value. The only thing i can directly adjust is the mode (0 = off, 1 = follow [standard], 2 = blink). To give you some options i added a bit of code so you can see for yourself.

➔When in JogFX mode, turn the browse encoder to switch through the colours. White is the last, so move it counter-clockwise initially, going from White, then Fuchsia towards Red (passing Blue, Green etc.). This should make it easier for you to decide which colour is best suited. JogFX and JogHoldFX can have different colours. The colour can also be different when JogTouch is active.

➔I also put in JogTouch = blink mode, so you can see if this is something you like.

Happy testing.

I set the colours to white and removed the blinking on touch and the colour change with the browse knob: 😃 ➔

The blinking LED ring has a set rate and can't be changed. You still want me trigger it in red with track end warning?

I'll explore the meters as a gauge for MIDI Knob (5-8) value, when active. This will require adjusting a second file, 'S4MK3Mixer.qml'. This is new territory for me, i haven't tried changing the meter outputs before.

🦋

I'll continue with exploring the VU meter feedback, i am curious about what's going on in there.

Anything being displayed (nicely) on the screen is a real bucketload of work, functions are distributed across the whole S4Mk3 subfolder of the screens folder. I recently did the customwavedisplay editor for the SupremeModEDIT, and after about a week getting the control structure right i had to fiddle in a thousand places for several weeks to get the screen display perfectly.

I can still work on getting a pop-up display showing the MIDI Knob (5-8) values changing on the screens if you like. It'll just take a hard to assess amount of time. I can say that it can be done 100%. And there are several working styles to choose from.

And don't feel hurried responding to anything i write. 🦋

I'll start with this next week.

I envision a small and centered pop-up overlay containing the value of MIDI-Knob (5-8) as a percentage, being visible only when you touch the top of the jog wheel while in JogFX mode, disappearing immediately when not touching or when exiting JogFX mode. This could be a rectangle or an oval shape, black background. The rim can have it's own colour just like the text. The whole thing would be big enough to be easily readable without totally obscuring the rest of the display.

To be really extravagant would entail a complex reworking of the FX display used by D2/S5/S8 for use of the S4 screens. My guess is that would be a major project. To put it in perspective, what i have done so far was quick and comparably simple without any dependecies to other files. I would prefer to keep the display simple as well, and a number diplay should do the trick.

What do you think?

I used the F1 for displaying the MIDI values of all four decks as well.

I wonder why having JogFX seems to not be very interesting. The Mk1/Mk2 downloads of the DJTT mapping was ranked at the top of the list. Maybe those past users never bothered to upgrade to Mk3 and the new users have different priorites like access, streaming and now stem seperation. Also DIY procedures seem to have been dropped in favour of plug-and-play, all-in-one and standalone capabilities. Where is the music in that?

But as long as i can make a single user happy i consider the work a success. All it takes for NI to jump on the train (without much of an investment in money or time) is to visibly promote the basically unpaid work of the community members in order to present Traktor's versatility. Win-win. Someone smart in the right place making a phone call may encourage users to try something not quite standard.

It must be hard to refrain from always going the 'new, bigger, better, flashy'-road and instead focus on keeping what's already there working and unlocking the full potential. It's funny, no matter what kind of software i am picking at, be it audio players, a video game or whatever; i always find in there code for really cool functions and great basic ideas abandonded before the final release.

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