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Topic: Control 4 Decks with 2 Deck controller - Video and Pitch problem

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I have managed to map a button and LED on my 2 deck controller to flip right/left from 1/2 to 3/4 for each side... that works great, and am loving the 2 extra decks.

Now I have 2 other problems:
First, and more importantly. If I am mixing decks 1,2,3... and go back to 1, and the pitch slider doesn't match what the software has. If I make the smallest move on the pitch slider it jumps to the hardware position instead waiting till the hardware and software match again.

Second, If I am mixing video on deck 1, overlaying audio on track 2, and want to layer some more audio from deck 3, the video jumps to deck 3 from deck 1 ... can this be controlled so that if deck 1 is still playing, dont switch the video to deck 3 (same with deck 2 to deck 4) ??

Code I had so far:
device_side 'left' ? deck 1 leftdeck ? deck 3 leftdeck : on & deck 1 leftdeck : deck 2 rightdeck ? deck 4 rightdeck : on & deck 2 rightdeck
 
Posted Fri 23 Sep 11 @ 9:27 am
don't know about the video part (i don't really use it), but for the pitch slider you just need to map "pitch_slider" it will only change the pitch when the fader is the same as the skin position.
 
thethird78 wrote :
Second, If I am mixing video on deck 1, overlaying audio on track 2, and want to layer some more audio from deck 3, the video jumps to deck 3 from deck 1 ... can this be controlled so that if deck 1 is still playing, dont switch the video to deck 3 (same with deck 2 to deck 4) ??


Video crossfader behaves according which deck is set as leftvideo and rightvideo.
By default these will follow the leftdeck and the rightdeck. If you wish to switch off this automatic behavior simply assign a deck as leftvideo and another one as rightvideo, using the default skin (video panel) or use these shortcuts
deck 1 leftvideo
deck 2 rightvideo

This will make deck 1 and deck 2 videos to be always the left and the right side of your video crossfader.
If you need to manually assign these, then you need to have a few buttons assigned like the above for each deck.

Anytime you wish to go back to the default behavior you need to use this action
leftvideo 'auto' & rightvideo 'auto'
 
The mapper screen says:
set the pitch of the deck, to be used by hardware controllers. if the pitch is changed by the software, the hardware slider will be unlinked from the real pitch until it reaches the actual pitch position again.

But this is not the case. I change the pitch on deck 3, go back to deck 1 and it jumps to the hardware position if I move the pitch slider at all. Is this a bug?
 


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