Filter FX (full-fledged and fully mappable)

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One field where Djay is missing in my opinion is the lack of Filter FX, We have really crazy stuff like Crossfader FX so it’s surprising to me that we don’t have such a simple thing as that.

Even controllers that have this feature built in never have full functionality in Djay Pro, it is either switched off as in Traktor Kontrol S3, or it is a cheated solution like running your FX1 together with a filter like in Mixon 4.

This is far from ideal, and using one of the 3 FX slots permanently just for a filter is very limiting, especially as we have no easy option to quickly switch between a few favourite effects on the fly without having to click, scroll through dozens of effects (at least on Windows, I don’t know how it looks on other platforms).

PAD FX controls FX and Filter at the same time but it’s completely useless for controller users so I think adding a fully fledged filter effect mode would be a great addition.

Thanks! :wink:

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Thanks for the suggestion @unumi. Good idea. I have forwarded this to the dev team for consideration.

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I’m sorry for getting back to this topic but some time has passed and when i look at it now I think my post needs a bit more context, so please let me elaborate.

Djay is really lacking in the FX field in my opinion (unless you’re using touch controls for pad FX). I’ve been using Traktor 4 for the last month or two has really opened my eyes to it. And it’s such a shame because the number of effects in Djay is actually really impressive, but the implementation of them for controller users leaves much to be desired in my opinion.

I love Djay and would love to continue using it but since I upgraded my gear and have a lot more knobs and buttons to map I am having a really hard time getting back to using it.

The main difference is the way Traktor handles the FX section, which is 4 FX banks (3 FX per bank) that can be assigned on the fly to different decks + Filter FX, so realistically you can use 16 effects on one deck compared to only 3 in case of Djay (yes, instant effects exist and it’s a fun feature, but their binary nature makes only a few of them actually usable in my eyes so i’m not going to include them).

Now, some may argue that you can assign different effects to different decks, but let’s be honest no one mixes that way. I can’t imagine loading a track specifically on, say, Deck D every time I want to put some reverb on it.

Adding the Filter effects that I suggested recently would really help, at least in my case adding things like delay, reverb, gate, noise to the filter would be a good enough replacement to not duplicate those effects in the FX section. However, I started to wonder recently if even if this is added it would be enough to compete with how Traktor handles the whole thing.

This topic makes me really conflicted because it’s a really big deal for me, and having so much creative freedom in Traktor simply makes me want to DJ way more, and I was really strongly considering switching to Traktor permanently because switching between Djay and Traktor messes with my muscle memory (it handles 4 decks in a bit different way), yet Djay has a few things that keep me coming back to it like real time stems,Tidal integration and really great beatgrids.

I’d love to see other people’s take on it. Cheers :v:

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Thanks for the additional input and feedback @unumi. I’ve shared this with the dev team.

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