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Forum: VirtualDJ Technical Support

Topic: Fx routing
Hello, is there any way to have the fx banks routing working like they do on rekordbox? I would like to have 2 assignable fx banks. I use pioneer ddj sx or sz2, when I play with 4 decks it's really unpractical for me to have 4 independent banks. I would like to use the buttons "fx 1, fx2" on each mixer channel to assign the respective fx bank. Another thing is the sync of the effects, It would be perfect if delay, trans and other tempo based fx would sync to the master deck. Thanks
 
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andy broggiato wrote :
Hello, is there any way to have the fx banks routing working like they do on rekordbox? I would like to have 2 assignable fx banks. I use pioneer ddj sx or sz2, when I play with 4 decks it's really unpractical for me to have 4 independent banks. I would like to use the buttons "fx 1, fx2" on each mixer channel to assign the respective fx bank.


There is probably a way to achieve your workflow - FX Banks Saving and Loading.
Take a look at these two links:

https://www.virtualdj.com/forums/255709/VirtualDJ_Technical_Support/Effects_Banks_1___2.html (Forum discussion of Effects Banks)
https://www.virtualdj.com/forums/255729/Addons/FX_Manager.html (DJDad's FX Manager pad page)

If you don't mind using custom buttons or that pad page, you could get reusable banks in that way.

If you want the controller to reflect this, it would be more work. By default, FX Banks don't seem to be used by the FX assign button mappings of the controllers you identified (they seem to do cloning of effects from other decks). If that workflow doesn't match your expectations, then your workflow might be achievable with some vdjscript remapping - you'll probably want to remap the FX ASSIGNs to have some sort of logic to save what's in the slots on both deck sides in banks 1 (leftdeck) and 2 (rightdeck) respectively and then depending on which assign button is chosen, no-op (if assigning from the same deck side) or load what was saved for the opposite deck side. Invert deck would probably just add on cloning the effects from the deck being switched from on the same side.

andy broggiato wrote :

Another thing is the sync of the effects, It would be perfect if delay, trans and other tempo based fx would sync to the master deck.


Assigning to and application of an effect is done on per deck in VirtualDJ, so it makes sense to have beat-aware effects consider just that deck (Take a look at the VirtualDJ Effects page).
Even in an effect bank/effect module scenario, beat-aware effects normally are applied according to the BPM of the deck/channel it's applied to (see the DJM-S9/DJM-S11 for example). The master deck could be a completely different BPM from the deck you are applying the effect to - would it make sense to sync it's beat-awareness to the master deck then? I guess I'm suggesting that what you're saying could be implemented, but I'm a little lost on the practicality.

Sync, on the other hand, works how you describe (sync implies alignment of a deck to some characteristic of some other deck), so for 4 deck mixing, masterdeck applies there.
 
I was going to plug my video but it's already in the other thread

An extension
I've just been experimenting with branchFX on deck sending to branchOut on master, it works and you can do stuff with it but falls over quite easy for fx banks use when you start doing normal stuff like swapping fx or only using some of a bank to then using more of a bank.
 
@locodog I did remember that specific video of the FX units and I saved the link for that discussion as I suspected it would come up again for new users converting from software that have dedicated FX unit sections.

Did you ever release that mod in any form?

I also didn't know about branchOut...I'll check that out 🍺
 
It's a paid for thing, the skin is the bit everybody sees and sells the idea but there's a lot in remapping the hardware.

Branch is kind of experimental but you can do some interesting things with it like

branch > cut > distortion > branchout
then you've got a intermittent distortion you can wet/dry mix, lots of stuff like that, it seems a little clunky until you use it 20 times and you set up for it.