tangofingers
Hey all,
I really don't feel like I'm treating either my Mac, VDJ or my Behringer 3000 badly- I'm not the most astute when it comes to technology but I just don't know where I'm going wrong with these 3 and feel like VDJ is to blame. I only play in bars, at house parties or at home with friends and so I'm hardly a professional, but I would like to be able to rely on my £300 odd software- it has let me down at times.
Forgive my ignorance, I'm sure a few of these problems have a very easy solution which I'd love you guys to help me with:
- Sometimes VDJ automatically syncs a new song I drag onto the 2nd deck with the one that's already playing on the first. I've read through the forum posts associated with this before- the padlock's not lit red, autosync isn't on in on the controller panel etc. However, when I close down VDJ and re-open- viola! It's back to normal in this respect.
- VDJ just does not want to find some songs on the database, whether I type in the name of the track or artist- I can only find a particular song if it's there in one of my iTunes playlists. The 'Add automatically' option is selected in the Browser menu of the config panel (although I would argue that this button in itself is a confusing part of the interface- do I click the button to turn it off, or on- either way it does NOT automatically add SOME of the new songs that I've added to my general iTunes folder automatically). Do I need to do something with my Mac that involves resinstalling my library or something? For the love of god please help me with that if so, I don't want to lose 20+ hours of cues I've already added to my tracks.
- Finally (for now) how the hell do I add more than 3 cues to a song?? Mapping and keying is double Dutch to me; how exactly (step by step!) does this work, I've browsed the site for more skins but until I download some I don't know whether there are more cues available with new skins. The website should list this under each skin available for download. I really don't want or need anything fancy- just 4-6 cues would be nice.
I know there are more things that irritate me about VDJ but to be honest I don't use it that much because it irritates me, it feels like it's crawling with bugs and yes, I do have the latest version installed. In future when I come across something that's niggling me I'll be sure to post it.
Your help/input/cries of 'n00b' would be much appreciated.
I really don't feel like I'm treating either my Mac, VDJ or my Behringer 3000 badly- I'm not the most astute when it comes to technology but I just don't know where I'm going wrong with these 3 and feel like VDJ is to blame. I only play in bars, at house parties or at home with friends and so I'm hardly a professional, but I would like to be able to rely on my £300 odd software- it has let me down at times.
Forgive my ignorance, I'm sure a few of these problems have a very easy solution which I'd love you guys to help me with:
- Sometimes VDJ automatically syncs a new song I drag onto the 2nd deck with the one that's already playing on the first. I've read through the forum posts associated with this before- the padlock's not lit red, autosync isn't on in on the controller panel etc. However, when I close down VDJ and re-open- viola! It's back to normal in this respect.
- VDJ just does not want to find some songs on the database, whether I type in the name of the track or artist- I can only find a particular song if it's there in one of my iTunes playlists. The 'Add automatically' option is selected in the Browser menu of the config panel (although I would argue that this button in itself is a confusing part of the interface- do I click the button to turn it off, or on- either way it does NOT automatically add SOME of the new songs that I've added to my general iTunes folder automatically). Do I need to do something with my Mac that involves resinstalling my library or something? For the love of god please help me with that if so, I don't want to lose 20+ hours of cues I've already added to my tracks.
- Finally (for now) how the hell do I add more than 3 cues to a song?? Mapping and keying is double Dutch to me; how exactly (step by step!) does this work, I've browsed the site for more skins but until I download some I don't know whether there are more cues available with new skins. The website should list this under each skin available for download. I really don't want or need anything fancy- just 4-6 cues would be nice.
I know there are more things that irritate me about VDJ but to be honest I don't use it that much because it irritates me, it feels like it's crawling with bugs and yes, I do have the latest version installed. In future when I come across something that's niggling me I'll be sure to post it.
Your help/input/cries of 'n00b' would be much appreciated.
Inviato Fri 27 Jul 12 @ 9:12 am
SBDJ
Posting from mobile so this will be brief but for point 1 change the beatlock setting in options to onLoad. You will never have that problem again.
Inviato Fri 27 Jul 12 @ 11:08 am
synthet1c
First you should get a new soundcard like a Native Instruments Audio 2, or a Numark DJ I/O, the one in the behringer is terrible and the drivers are riddled with problems.
SBDJ is saying open the "config" menu, open the "options" tab, press the "disengage beatlock" button until it says "on load"
this is how you map
SBDJ is saying open the "config" menu, open the "options" tab, press the "disengage beatlock" button until it says "on load"
this is how you map
now that you know that you can fix the beatlock issue with mapping also...
- Select "new" at the bottom of the list in the mapper
- then just to the right of the "key learn button" in the mapper locate the dropdown menu
- open it and select "ONINIT"
- now paste the following lines in the action box:
deck 1 beatlock off & deck 2 beatlock off & deck 1 smart_play off & deck 2 smart_play off & get decks 4 ? deck 3 beatlock off & deck 4 beatlock off & deck 3 smart_play off & deck 4 smart_play off : nothing
if you want more than three cues you need either a skin with more than three available or you can map your controller with "hot_cue #" # being the number of the cue you want to use eg "hot_cue 69"
Inviato Fri 27 Jul 12 @ 2:31 pm
