MIDI Mapping VU-meters and LED feedback in general

[jayneural]

Could Algoriddim team or someone from the community provide some documentation, if not official reference on how to map hardware controller/mixer VU-meters on Djay ? Even if it means tweaking the mapping file with a text editor.

I could obtain results by copy-pasting from other mappings and change to my controller’s MIDI spec, but it doesn’t always work and I would like to understand the the logic fully.

More generally, some documentation on how to map LED feedback would be cool, again I tend to find my way but sometimes there are some headaches.

[Archiesbald]

As far as I know midi mapping the VU meters is not supported. I asked the question about a year ago when I moved over from Traktor. I’m happy to be corrected if it’s changed since then.

Transferred from Traktor, a few questions.

Hi, As the title says I’m new to Djay Pro but have been using Traktor for many years. I’m curious if you can map the VU meters on a mixer/controller to DJay Pro. I’ve managed to map pretty much everything else I need on the intuitive mapping menus (well done Algoriddim, that’s one in the eye for Traktor). I just can’t seem to find the function to map leds for the VU’s. Also I seem to be having a bit of trouble with the beat gridding. I seem to have to reset to the first beat of the drums to ge…

[NathanielAlgo]

Hi @jayneural,

@Archiesbald is correct, at this time VU meters (LED Feedback) are not MIDI mappable in djay.

I will pass this along to our dev team though as a feature request for further consideration!

[jayneural]

Thank you @NathanielAlgo. I’m actually trying to map the Pioneer DDJ Rev1. I’m not far from something pretty usable.

My only difficulties are :

• those Vu-meter LEDs,
• the 3 FX selection buttons per side which are supposed to be lit either alternatively or in parallel when pressed together. Otherwise, could easily map the 4 decks + Neural Mix.
• tracking feature does not seem to be present/mappable.

Transform is mapped right in the hardware and sends messages that move the line faders to cut, so no problem there.

However the tracking mode isn’t hardware controlled, I guess it would require Algoriddim to implement the scratch patterns in the software and provide a mapping entry.

I know you have some similar feature with SHIFT+scratch, so maybe it could be cool to provide more patterns and mappings for them to get a similar feature. I see you added some scratch courses. It’d make sense to add some of these scratching helper tools.

[NathanielAlgo]

Hi @jayneural,

Please note that these are the three features of the REV1 that are not currently manually mappable.

Our team is working on a solution for this and I will update this thread when there is new information to present!

[Datura_Loca]

Any news about this? I’m so sad I cannot map the Jogvision VU meter with DJay Pro AI. Considering to switch to Traktor as well

[Ailton_PAPA]

Beat Leds and VU-Leds are still not working on the Hercules Jogvision. Do you have any updates on this?

[kksdave]

I’d like to add my voice to request this feature!

[Metaphysical]

This would be great with a Traktor F1 or other brand midi controllers that provide colored pads that can be edited.

It seems like low-hanging fruit to allow the end user to use your midi editing menu to simply duplicate the existing midi data already being transmitted to reflect volume levels (assuming volume/levels are sent to LED’s via midi) visually displayed upon the four respective LED meter sections of all four channel controllers you support— and direct that duplicate data to a series custom mapped colored pads.

It would take awhile to map and color four rows of pads but offer super-helpful visual cues and cool-factor lv.10.