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Topic: Skinning for STEMS Full Mashup Control EQ
Hi

I have a 4 channel controller and where I use 5 knob full mashup control EQ (Frequency EQ on outer channel and Stems EQ on inner channel). However, all skins that I have tried 'overlay' both the EQs (i.e. the same visual knob controls and shows the stem or frequency value. This can cause confusion when mixing.

So I was trying to develop a skin which shows both set of EQ knobs side by side (see image):

The issue is that when I set the EQ mode to "Stems" (i.e. 5 knob stems with freq on outer channel mode),
- I can use the knob to control/set/query Stems values with verb "stem" 
 ... action="stem 'Vocal' " ...
... Yay!!
- However, I can't seem to be able to control the frequencies in the same way. E.g. 
 ... action="eq_mid_freq" ...
will actually set the the 'Vocal' stem.

I think this is because VDJ has overloaded the inner EQ knobs to handle stems and internally maps the knobs from the outer channel to frequencies.


- As a workaround I could use 'classic EQ' (i.e frequency mode) and change the controller mapping such that inner channel controls stems and outer channel controls frequencies. something like:
action_deck 3 ? deck 1 eq_mid : action_deck 4 ? deck 2 eq_mid : eq_mid


However, the downside of this approach is that it will only work for the controller I modify and not scale across all 4 channel controllers (I use Roland DJ707 at home, and Pioneer at a club and Traktor S4 in other club) and I'd have to write mappings for all of these controllers. Also I'm not sure about durability of this solution.

Question:
- In "Stems" EQ modes, is there a way to query/visualize/control the values of frequencies independently of stems using the VDJScripts?
 
Posted Tue 21 Nov 23 @ 7:22 pm
eq_high_freq
 
locodog wrote :
eq_high_freq


Not sure what you mean or how it resolves the issue. Maybe my question wasn't understood.

Verbs 'eq_high_freq', 'eq_mid_freq' and 'eq_low_freq' as action or query will follow EQ settings and in case of 'Stems' EQ setting, it will control or return the stems values.
 
I didn't read every thing only the end question, you'll have to remap your devices.
 
You can use the "stem" action for the equalizer too:
stem FreqHi, stem FreqMid, stem FreqLo
 
Have you ever finished the skin? I am looking for a skin that archives this and could not find anything yet.
 
 
So I know you're excited you got Claude to code a skin for you, what Claude forgot to mention is there is a proper process in place and for sharing extensions to users of VirtualDJ.

Sharing a random link through the forum is normally purged, most likely for security reasons (they review and approve/deny extensions), so if your post is edited to remove the link, you now know why.
 
DJ VinylTouch wrote :
So I know you're excited you got Claude to code a skin for you, what Claude forgot to mention is there is a proper process in place and for sharing extensions to users of VirtualDJ.

Sharing a random link through the forum is normally purged, most likely for security reasons (they review and approve/deny extensions), so if your post is edited to remove the link, you now know why.


As soon as the skin is approved by the VDJ Team I'll leave up the gdrive link so others can use it in the meantime...
 
Moderator link removed
addons need review before being shared publicly.
you're free to share via pm or a link on your profile page
 
The reason why is that is discouraged is because Skins are reviewed and released by the Atomix team.

However, your cloud link is not vetted by anybody and could contain anything, so it's use at your own risk, and normally, the devs wouldn't want the forum to be a source of risk.