Comments on: HID Joysticks for Djs

By: DJ TechTools | Serato joins up with Pioneer

DJ TechTools | Serato joins up with Pioneer — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:24:29 +0000

[...] This combination however, chose not to use MIDI, instead relying on the HID format we explained in this article. Scratch LIVE 1.8.2 recognizes the Pioneer CDJ-400 controls using the robustness of the HID [...]

By: Ean Golden

Ean Golden — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:33:48 +0000

[quote comment=""]The style of writing is quite familiar to me. Did you write guest posts for other bloggers?[/quote]

I wrote for remix magazine for a while ( 3 years) but not any other blogs.

By: How to Get Six Pack

How to Get Six Pack — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:08:55 +0000

The style of writing is quite familiar to me. Did you write guest posts for other bloggers?

By: iron dj

iron dj — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:01:52 +0000

cool devices when can I guy one?!

By: DJ ToS

DJ ToS — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:38:25 +0000

Further testing pooved that Rejoice application in fact does not have shift-state system. I've been in search for a few days now and hopefully found two apps that are free and can do the trick.

First one is a a bit hardcore, the Hubi's MIDI TRansformator. Because of it's hardcoreness I still havent tested it.

Second app is a more user-oriented: Bome's Midi Translator Classic which does just about the thing I need.

If none of thiese proove good enough I'll probably write one myself.

By: compert

compert — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:20:24 +0000

Thats funny. We are using the Space Navigator for CAD programs at Uni. They are really well build and fun to play with.

By: Ean G.

Ean G. — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:46:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Let us know if any of those assignments prove to be particularly useful to you.

By: DJ ToS

DJ ToS — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:15:54 +0000

Far from the idea of hiding, I just don't think that it is usefull to post a semi-finished(yep, I still haven't agreed with myself about all button assignments) setup which other people would most probably do other way based on the usage of their (dj) software.

X/Y axis is drawn from the MJoy because it has the ability to bind one axis to two separate CC ids(one for left, one for right).

Buttons are routed trough Rejoice because it has the shift-option(you can make multiple layers with key conbinations(i.e. BTN L2 + BTN 1, where L2 is shift-state )).

Let's just count the triggers bound to mine(I hope you know how the SonyPS gamepad looks like):

x axis lft/rght : pitch bend

y axis up/dn: undefined (used to be FX knob 1 inc/dec)

L 1/2: shift button 1/2

R 1: cue-play instant

R 2: undefined

SELECT (the stop shaped button): undefined (used to be shift btn)

START (the play shaped button): play/pause

buttons 1-4 (X 0 triangle and square): changing by the hour :-)