Just when you think Ean can’t top his last mapping…. Wham! In your face! Another grand slam from the DJTT Factory!!! Thanks.

You should also make a preperation mapping and guide for creating sets.
I’ve got my own way of attacking this which I feel is a fairly quick way of prepping.
Got an idea on using the effects buttons as “add folder to favorites” (Which is a pretty missleading tag cause you can use it for tracks as well) and another button assigned for putting the tracks in the preparation playlist.
I’ve got my own keyboad guide here:
http://djfdrk.blogspot.no/2011/10/revisit-shortcuts-for-prep.html

Interesting concept, can’t wait to give it a try, but what I am wondering is what am missing out by not doing this and simply letting Traktor do everything except cue points? Sure Traktor wlll get it wrong every now and then when it comes to laying down grids and markers, but what I’ve noticed that it has the most trouble on are the tracks that have really wacky tempo shifts; tracks that I’d have to manually beatmatch anyway. So most of the time I feel fine just letting Traktor analyze and GO.

Thanks for the mapping irregardless, Ean.

Absolutely love it. Can’t wait to get on this.

Wow! I already thought bout creating something similar but this definitely beats everything one could imagine!

Nice one with the Jump to next cue on load.. such a time saver!

Nice mapping! Is there “tap” button as well?

When it’s necessary the manual beatgrid? How many tracks have wrong beatgrid with auto settings?

Way to go Ean. Can’t wait for the S4 version. I tried making a quick and dirty copy based on the S2 myself, but in my haste I missed something vital in the macro that sets the master tempo. P.S. Having the offset up/down buttons means less modifier usage… or maybe something even better?

gr8 job…really helpful

dooooope!

Great!

Now who’s gonna do the VCI100 version?

Awesome concept, but there are major problems with the map. Play button won’t play, Right loop knob won’t work, jogs not responsive. I tried to load and reload traktor but same result. Hope you can look into it soon, Thanks!

This is awesome ! Great tool to really enable you to move through the little “annoying” steps of gridding your songs.

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Changing this to Midi mapping would make things even better because this way you don´t need to change the in and outport in the controller manager but just enter midi mode. Awesome mapping btw.

Nice work Ean!

Well, nothing beats DIY, right? ;)

awesome mapping, it would be even cooler if this mapping could be applied to other controllers. for example: The Pioneer DDJ Ergo V Mixer,VCI100 or the Midifighters

I use a keyboard and mouse– just as short..

perfect tor s2/s4 users :D obviously not useful for everyone else

Sure,

I might get to it this week but I need the practice time more than the coding. Between work and beautiful weather, who finds the time to lock themselves in the dark dungeon of the dj studio.

Thank you for sharing this mapping, it looks pretty awesome! I like the fact that the track that is playing will sync to the master clock at the bpm of the track. Looking forward to giving this a test drive…

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Understandable. I forgot to consider the beautiful weather as it’s continuously raining here :)
I would definitely help out if I had a VCI100…

awesome just bought my s2 got a party in a few weeks practice time!

Stellar “How-To’ vid. This is what people are looking for on this site. Well done

BC

Thank you

Any chance of this coming for the DN-MC6000?

Nice, would love to see a similar mapping for a DVS and Kontrol X1 setup.

i was just giving up on prepping my stuff because i’m so lazy, thank you <3

This is not working for me in the slightest in the S4. Its all over the place and when I am pressing cue it is loading a track from some other folder or playlist I am not even in and the highlighted track is not loading. That amongst nearly everything else is not working for me with the S4 from the word go. Anyone else having these problems?

Nice Ean. I bow to your imagination and efforts to help us.

scamo

The S4 is working great for me: I have been flying through tracks like never before.
I did have the same problem initially where it would cue up a “random” track. Here is my workaround: Drag and drop the first track in deck A. Then prepare that track with the cue and play buttons. When you’re done with that track, press the sync button and it will load the next track in the playlist. After preparing that track, press sync for the next track, etc.

I Just did a VCI-100SE version look for djbTrackPrepMapping in the mapping section. It’s working perfectly, Success to all : )

It’s working for me so far except the PLAY Button doesn’t start the track?!?!

Also when I want to lock the Grid it does so BUT it also activates Loop Mode. Not so in Ean’s video..

The play button wasnt working for me either. To get it working. Add in a new play command and map/learn it to the play button. Relearning the existing button didnt seem to solve it but creating a new one seems to have sorted it out for me

Ok worked out the above. I watched the video again, and ean advises to turn off the default mapping. I had both on when i first did it and was getting the loop mode triggering also. I had to add in deck common / play pause again and learn to left play (also turn interaction mode from hold to toggle) and now it all seems to work as it should. No idea why the play pause didnt work out the box like it does for others, Would like to know if anyone does. Otherwise hope this helps out anyone else whos play wasnt working or loop mode was triggering.

lookin good!

Sold my s4 so I could get the Vci-400 ean golden edition and then you release this master mapping! Grrrrrrr

Ean this is an awesome mapping. Thanks for it. Like Manus I had some trouble getting it to work but ultimately figured out what I was doing wrong. Three tips to save the brain damage I went through. 1) In Preferences->Control Manager, make sure you set the in-port of the Kontrol S4 default mapping to “None” or else when you hit a button/encoder Traktor won’t know whether to use the default mapping or Ean’s mapping. 2) you need to be workign from a traktor playlist, not from the itunes playlist that you can access from within Traktor. 3) make sure you set the first beat either with the auto beatgrid function or with the tempo offset button from the mapping. If you don’t set the first beat the loop encoder won’t adjust the phase of the beat grid (which is really the most handy part)

Do you guys have this mapping for the X1′s ?

fuck, make this for an X1.

Just added this to my S4 and have been chomping through all my tracks. Good, solid mapping for me. Have found a lot of my D&B tracks are creating beat-grids based on snares rather than kicks but once I figured that out I was well away. Many thanks Ean.

It would be cool if it would have been a MacBook mapping…aside from the jog wheels…all the button mappings would be great on the go when your S4 isn’t available.

Hello i own a vci 400. Is there a vci 400 preparation tool mapping for the standard vci 400??? Im not too hot at midi mapping. Is there a walk through step by step tutorial??? Thanks you very much.

Another great tutorial. Such a wellspring of information.

Everything works great. Except it doesnt reset the master to the current track tempo. Does that mean I missed a step? What am I doing wrong?

This is not working for me..

They need to release this for one of these:
http://www.djtechdirect.com/native-instruments-traktor-kontrol-x1.html

I just want to say:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!

This is a time saver for sure. I started using it over the weekend and now its for sure a permanent fixture in my workflow.

you… you good you….. …. forget about it. ( i think Ean is the original Mikka from the TV series called Heroes. )

Wow….how on earth is anyone supposed to remember all of this!?

Great video, I did the mapping on my Reloop Contour and its working like a charm.
But one thing seems wrong to me, when checking the beat vs the master tick, shouldn’t be the sync off? Else the track syncs vs the master and the tick is always right, or am I wrong?