Hopefully I’m not the only person in this situation, but I have a couple controllers that have pretty limited colour selection. It would be nice to be able to set custom hot cue default colours, then I can set my controller to the same scheme and never have to worry about it again.
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Hi @Austinjacobm94, thanks for the suggestion. Can you please provide a bit more detail and perhaps some screenshots for this suggestion? Thanks!
No problem! I’ll do my best to explain. In my setup I like to use dicers. They offer pretty limited colours. It would be helpful to me to set a “default cue colour scheme” so I could match these colours and see them at a glance on the waveform. Other people might have this effect naturally by using supported hardware.
I’ve attached photos below of what I have adjusted my cue colours to on the dicers, and a screenshot of where I think the option could live.
I was thinking another menu where you set a colour from cue 1-8 that, would be the default colour set to the cues you set thereafter.
As of now you have to adjust the colours one by one on every song under the cue menu. It’s pretty time consuming and I’ve stopped doing it, despite how useful it would be to have my hardware and software match.
If we want to eliminate the need for another menu, possibly just making it so when you set the cue 1-8 colour in the existing edit menu, that would carry forth for the rest of songs you set cues to.
I think this would be helpful to others by providing a way to set maybe more vibrant colours, or to people in my situation as well.
Hope this clears things up!
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I totally agree with having a fully customizable color scheme, but for entirely different reasons. The Hot Pads on my Mixon 8 do support full-color LEDs, so that’s not the issue.
My main point is that I tend to use a different hot cue color order than the one djay has determined by default. This means I always need to manually adjust cue colors to match my preferred workflow. A customizable color scheme would make this process much smoother and more intuitive, which would be very welcome.
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there is certainly room for improvement to make use of LED color’s to be implemented
i made the suggestion here too
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Thanks for the additional clarification @Austinjacobm94. This is very helpful. I will pass this idea onto our dev team for consideration.
Was going to post something similar to this.
I’d like to set it so that by default:
cue point 1 = green (intro)
cue point 2 = blue (mix in if not using intro)
cue point 3 = orange (safe to start mixing out)
cue point 6 = purple (make sure you’ve mixed in by this point
cue point 7 = red (make sure you’ve mixed out by this point)
I know I can do this manually already, but I don’t bother because it’s a big faff to do it for every track. But yeah, if it were just there it’d make the cue point colours far more intuitive for how I use them 
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Thanks for the feedback @Algy_Taylor
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I just got a controller and I feel this too now. It was a different use case with my dicers, but can be even more useful for my controller with the same kind of examples you’ve given.
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I totally support this idea.
It would be great to have editable default colors for each cue pad, so that every time we create a new cue, it automatically uses our preferred color order.
Right now, I have to manually change the color of each cue after creating it, since the predefined sequence doesn’t match my workflow.
Being able to configure this once in the settings would save a lot of time and make cueing much more consistent.
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Thanks for the additional feedback @Albert_Maro
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Just here to echo everyone else. A fair few of us are probably refugees from other software and we just get used to whatever the color order was “over there” but I do feel that we should be able to edit our own color scheme, or at least have the ability to set the order of the default djay cue colors.
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Thanks for the additional input @discoian
