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REALLY basic. after all these years I have never learned any and using the key-learn is not working for me for what I want to do.
have been trying to make it learn what I want it to do but G.I.G.O applies here.

being able to copy and paste basic commands for effects to keyboard would be best because if you try to explain it to me I will go cross-eyed.

fer instance: I want Flanger or something to be on the "1" key and for "2" to be overloop when I hit the key without having to reassign to "default active" every time. or words to that effect. (no pun intended and I am ashamed it came out that way)
 
Posted Tue 30 Jul 13 @ 12:34 am
I can't quite understand what you want to achieve, but there we go:

1-> effect 'flanger' active
2-> effect 'overloop' active

These are the commands for your buttons.

Now you can easily "copy/paste" commands between the various mappers installed on your system as on every other application.
1-> Select the "button" you want, 2-> On the command text highlight the part you want to copy (or the entire field) 3-> Right click, Copy!!!
Then switch to the button (on any installed mapper) you want to paste, highlight the text box, Right click, paste!!!

PS:
If you want to activate several effects without reseting the default effect of the deck (the one that's visible on the standard skins of VDJ) then you should use effect slots:

effect 2 select 'flanger' & effect 2 active
effect 2 select 'overloop' & effect 2 active
OR
effect 3 select 'overloop' & effect 3 active
 
eh.. I almost understood but not quite. this is why I failed languages in school.

I essentially want to turn the number keys at the top of the keyboard into "hotkeys" that activate effects and not just while they are the active effects. press 1 get flanger, press 2 get over-loop, press 3 get beadgrid, etc. ...
 
after playing around with it all night I still cant get it to do what I want. not sure what i'm doing wrong but its probably something simple that I can't wrap my head around.
 
just use the following formula

effect 'effectName' active

eg. for the flanger effect

effect 'flanger' active

if you need to focus on a specific deck then use deck #. # can be; 1,2,3,4,left,right,default eg.

deck left effect 'flanger' active
 
its not working. I want to be able to trigger effects separately and have the keys programmed to trigger them without having to go back and remap the button every time. setting for active deck has only let me use one at a time - want to be able to trigger individually -

press 1 = flanger
press 2 = over-loop
press 3 = beadgrid

would like to be able to have them each triggered on their own without having to chain them together.
assigning to active deck hasn't worked so far - records for that one key but won't let me use a second effect.

...I may have to re-install screen capture stuff to show what i'm doing wrong I think.
 
'deck active' no longer works.. It used to be the deck that you are playing live. In a two deck system when you load a track it becomes 'deck defualt', the other deck that has been playing was 'deck active'. The following scripts will work on whatever you have loaded last.

effect 'flanger' active
effect 'overloop' active
effect 'beatgrid' active
effect 'backspin' active
effect 'brake' active
etc...

To change what is currently the default deck you can press your pfl button, or press [TAB] on your keyboard to cycle through your available decks
 
Okay, let me see if this is what you want:

Map a button (e.g F12) with the following command:

deck 1 effect 1 select 'flanger' & deck 1 effect 2 select 'brake' & deck 1 effect 3 select 'overloop' & deck 1 effect 4 select 'beatgrid' & deck 1 effect 5 select 'echo' & deck 2 effect 1 select 'flanger' & deck 2 effect 2 select 'brake' & deck 2 effect 3 select 'overloop' & deck 2 effect 4 select 'beatgrid' & deck 2 effect 5 select 'echo'

Now map buttons 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 & 0 with the following commands:

1->deck 1 effect 1 active
2->deck 1 effect 2 active
3->deck 1 effect 3 active
4->deck 1 effect 4 active
5->deck 1 effect 5 active
6->deck 2 effect 1 active
7->deck 2 effect 2 active
8->deck 2 effect 3 active
9->deck 2 effect 4 active
0->deck 2 effect 5 active

Finally:
Press F12 (the button you mapped first) ONCE. This will assign the effects on their effect slots.
Try to use buttons 1-5 for deck 1 and 6-0 for deck 2 to fire up the effects.

Is this what you want to do ????
 
followed all steps - but it didn't take and hold. not sure what i'm doing wrong
mapped f12
copied and pasted 1-0 commands to map
pressed f12

and still reverted to default loop settings

so yeah. confused.
 
Loop settings ? Now, I'm confused... LOL
 
are you choosing the correct key before trying the mapping?

..also sometimes VDJ duplicated keys when I try to use them, eg if I press keylearn then the 'a' key, if the 'a' key is already mapped it will sometimes make a new reference to the 'a' key and the new script won't work. what I do to aviod it is order the column alphabetically and make sure there are no duplicates.
 
Can you try this:

1. Open config, goto mappers, select your keyboard
2. press the little green +-Symbol at the bottom of that window.
3. Press "KeyLearn"
4. Press "1" on you keyboard
5. write following action into the action textfield: effect 'flanger' active
6. click on "OK"
7. play a song and press "1" if its working, close VDJ, start it up again and test if your mapping still works.

oh, and don't forget to run VDJ as administrator.
 
riddle me this:
press 1 after mapping, then after closing and testing again - flanger works. and so does the 2 key that I didn't map as flanger.

@synthetic - did all that and still no joy.

PhantomDeejay wrote :
Loop settings ? Now, I'm confused... LOL
factory settings default 1-0 keys are mapped for loops. except for the 3. apparently it was not worthy?
 
you guys are awesome.

really you are. finally got it right by retracing what I had done and now i'm gonna put it to use...

one dose of non-redneck mind clearing (for me anyway) coming up!
 


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