Traktor Kontrol S4 - FX tricks in midi mode

Because of the fast communication protocol (generally used), many people tend to forget that the S4 is ALSO one of the best midi controllers out there. Facing the difficulties to be limited on how you can manage different FX parameters with the jogwheels or some buttons, I decided to have a go at a FX management midi mode to pull out quickly some tricks. The idea was to be able either to play with the buttons like pads ( a bit like a midi-fighter) or emulate with the jogwheel and faders - in this case the pitch fader - the juggle mode from the VCI100 created by the great team at Dj Techtools.

The video is only here to 'showcase' what is the endless potential that you could add to the existing S4's embedded mapping. You can see I switch to midi mode as the browse button will lit in blue (and I've created some led behaviours on the sample play buttons).

Only two tracks mixed basically here and me playing with the FX combinations I set up. As I said this a test, I usually don't twist songs that much with effects so please be gentle with me ;)

The coloured faders were painted blue & white to match decks' colour code with some acrylic paint but comes originally from Djs face like the orange knobs used on all D/W knobs.

If you don't know the site yet, please visit DJ Techtools at www.djtechtools.com , it is a really good source of inspiration (apart from reading and occasional participation to the forum myself, I'm not related to them so it's an honest tip).




Playlist:
Kenny Larkin - You are (Planet E communications)
Hobo - Berlin booty (Minus)

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[PBowyer123]

How do you change the LED behaviour? cool vid btw!

[Yul303]

@PBowyer123 Thanks. The unit is on midi mode, the lights used are beat phase monitor output functions. The range of the output(s) has been divided between the button.

[mariogayoso]

can you list the buttons from left to right and from down to up please?

after play in midi mode pressing shift browse can i go back to the normal setting? thanks!

[Yul303]

@mariogayoso Yes it's just effects settings but there's no way I'm going to list them all here. As for midi mode, yes you press shift+ browse button to go to midi mode and then the same thing to back to normal.

[StefanoMDJ]

Damn very nice.....are yuo sharing this mapp? :D

[Yul303]

@StefanoMDJ nope it's a mapping I started but never really finished. 

[Yul303]

@xlildeebomb13x

Traktor or Itch?  ;)

[MrRidisc]

can you say some of the fx's combos????

[thejdm]

u happen to have this mapping available?

i was using the djtt s4 mapping but its so incredibly buggy. this mapping looks fun.

[TheTribalhouse83]

Mate or anyone else,how much cash is S4,or how much all setup(Traktor p2,S4 laptop with recommended spec for that,etc) sepparetly prices pls and Im not interested before so Traktor works only on Mac(Apple) or works on Windows too,if works on both why everyone use Apple Mac,if somebody can explain and answer I appriciate and Tnx

[jauwjauw2]

Im a newbie but how do you set up effects on the FX knobs?

[Lynwood662]

how do i post a link to another youtube video here???!? lol

[Lynwood662]

Quik question, can you set up a "super knob/button" in midi mode to pull off an effect to fade out track and the switch back to HID mode quickly to adjust volumes? I hope im making sense...

Let me give you an example: Like to be able to pull this off in this vid here: