As we all know, each player in DJay has 8 spaces for Cues, and the Mixon Pro 8 has 8 pads. Not all tracks in my collection need 8 Cue Points, of course.
My problem: Sometimes I accidentally touch an empty Cue Pad on the controller, which immediately stores a new Cue Point. This is unwanted and can be confusing or lead to undesired situations.
My idea: Add a new feature to the little pencil icon (for editing Cue points) so that disabling the pencil also prevents the storage of new Cue points (or loops).
In other words, when the pencil is disabled, it should also be impossible to accidentally store a new Cue point during a live situation.
Is this already possible to program, or would it require a new setting in the preferences?
Device: MacBook Pro (16", 2019)
Operating system: Apple Os / Sanoma 14.4.1.
Djay version: Djay Pro 5.2.1
Hardware/controllers used: Reloop Mixon Pro 8
Hi @DJ_Big_Blender, I have changed this topic from a Question to a Suggestion. Thanks for the suggestion! I have forwarded this to the dev team for consideration. In the meantime, please use the blue Vote button at the top left of this page so we can gauge user demand for this feature. Thanks!
maybe just a little lock on a track…tracktor etc have a padlock icon , so you can lock the track and the grid and cues stay solid. Click the padlock and it turns into a pencil allowing you to edit tracks. This way we can keep our cues safe etc…important for routines…right now if you hit Pad FX but haven’t changed on your mixer from hot cues, you end up writing a bunch of mistaken cues …
OR maybe simply option to delete cue with shift button. Press shift + cue pad to delete cue. That works in Tractor. Here I actually do not know how to delete cue from controller. A small lock for locking fully cued and prepared track would be nice.
@Michael_Android, on most controllers, holding Shift + Cue Pad does delete the Hot Cue. If this is not already MIDI mapped to your controller, you can easily map it yourself within the djay MIDI Learn Tool by pressing Shift + Cue Pad 1 and selecting Clear Cue 1.
Regarding the programming of shortcuts, I would like to ask: is it possible to program a function that starts by pressing two keys on the keyboard simultaneously (e.g. CTRL + A)?
First of all, I would like to say that such two-key commands seem only possible in combination with certain keys like Command, Arrow, Control, or Option, together with another letter. So, not with two random keys like O + P, correct?**
Now, we are already nine months further, and I still feel the need to protect hot cues on the controller from accidentally storing new cue points. For that reason, I have come up with another solution.**
Initially, my idea was to protect hot cues from accidentally being overwritten using the padlock function in the software — the same padlock that toggles edit mode for changing cue point colors, names, and positions.
However, since this hasn’t been implemented yet, I would like to ask if it would be possible to at least add the ability to assign a shortcut action for disabling the storage of new hot cues. That would already be a step forward.
This is the direction I would like to see this move in."
Regarding the keyboard of shortcut suggestion, I believe the underlying “lock” functionality originally suggested would still need to be added before a MIDI action or keyboard shortcut would work. I will share this with the dev team though in case this makes implementation any easier. Thanks for the additional ideas and input!
I really dislike it when I accidentally create a new cue point by clicking one of the empty cue pads on the Mixon 8 Pro. The software immediately saves a new cue point, which I then have to delete again.
It would be great to have an option or MIDI command that says *Protect Cue Points*, so cue points can’t be written by accident.
I would definitely enable that as a default setting, because it would prevent accidental cue points and make the workflow much cleaner.
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Hi @DJ_Big_Blender, I’ve merged your new suggestion with your previous one as these sound closely related. There is also this related suggestion topic:
Thanks.
