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Topic: Help setting a Default Hotcue color
When one sets hotcue point 1 its color is RED...... showing both on the waveform label, and on the deck's pad (both are RED)

If one looks at the POI editor it shows the Color for hotcue 1, set to NONE, but it is always RED.

Where is this default color of RED set?


I ask this since I now have hotcues 1-16 mapped to a Novation Lanchpad controller. Colors are set correctly on the pads and waveform when a Hotcue is added for Hotcues 1-8.

And NOT set on Hotcues 9-16. I understand that one can use the POI editor to set the color of say Hotcue 9, (after hotcue 9, has been set with the Launchpad), but, if say, one wants to move the hotcue over a bit, since grid was changed or for any other reason, once the Hotcue is deleted, one has to go into POI editor again to add color back. And this has to be done for every track for every Hotcue above 8. Would like to set the default Color for Hotcue 9 once somewhere.

Since, ONE DOES NOT need to set colors in the POI editor when creating Hotcue 1
(Imagine if one had to enter the POI editor for every Hotcue that one wanted to set or reset, it would no longer just a simple press of on a pad to set a hotcue, but a multi-step process for each hotcue.)

Summary:
Would like to set the default colors for Hotcues 9-16 in this same way as is done by VDJ for Hotcue 1.


How can the default Hotcue color be set?


Help !


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Or is there a workaround script so that Hotcue 9 will always be RED. (ie, the waveform marker, RED, and the pad is RED when hotcue is set, and led off when hotcue is NOT set.)
 
Posted Mon 25 Jan 21 @ 12:14 am
When you don't manually set hotcue colors, VirtualDJ applies colors based on the "nonColoredPOI" setting.
At this moment this setting affects only hotcues 1-8


PS: You could remap the your hotcue buttons (or pad page) for shift operation as follows:
holding ? delete_cue 9 : set_cue 9

This way pressing shift+pad will update the hotcue (and keep the color and name) instead of deleting it.
To delete it you need to press SHIFT and then hold the pad down for 1 sec
 
PhantomDeejay wrote :
PS: You could remap the your hotcue buttons (or pad page) for shift operation as follows:
holding ? delete_cue 9 : set_cue 9

Thank you Phantom..

That is an awesome script tweak, and will save much time. !



Is there a script that could be added to the action ... to set the color of the Hotcue? so the action of pad 9 could include a color setting action also, something like: 

shift ? deck left delete_cue 9 & set_cue_color 9 'black' : deck left hot_cue 9 & set_cue_color 9 'red'


where set_cue_color 9 'red' is an action that would set the color of HotCue 9, RED.

Does anything like that exist?





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IF not
It would be awesome if:

That script could be added?
Or
A way within the POI editor, to save a default color for say Hotcue 9, with a check box called [set as default color]
Or
way to use the nonColoredPOI setting, (you mentioned) to add a default color for other Hotcues?
Or
Just have VDJ add default colors as it does for first 8 to all other Hotcues.
 
UPDATE:

SOLUTION: found

cue_color

And

shift ? deck left delete_cue 9 & cue_color 9 'black' : deck left hot_cue 9 & cue_color 9 'red'


works perfectly to set the, HotCue 9, pad, and waveform text, to RED,

And also to turn the pads LED, OFF when Hotcue 9 is NOT set.


Love Virtual DJ
 
Actually when you delete a cue you don't need to set the color to black.
The color get's deleted with the cue.
So:
shift ? deck left delete_cue 9 : deck left hot_cue 9 & cue_color 9 'red'


However...
If you use POI editor to change cue 9 color to let's say green (for any reason) and then you try to use the above code, you will reset the color to red.

So, IMHO the best code for you is this:

shift ? deck left delete_cue 9 : deck left has_cue 9 ? deck left hot_cue 9 : deck left set_cue 9 & cue_color 9 'red'
 
Thank you Phantom

Your suggested script refinements work even better !

Thank you . You Rock !
 
How do you map hotcues buttons for shift to cue 9-16 for hotcue-16 plugin using hercules impulse300. Has anyone ever tried it?
 
Hi, I'm going through the threads looking for answers to my question. This topic approaches my question. That's why I'll try to ask - hotcues 1-8 have default colors for all songs (1-red, 2-pink, 3-blue, 4-yellow, 5-green, 6-magenta, 7-cyan, 8-violet). I would need other colors (1-green, 2-blue, 3-red, 4-darkred, 5-yellow, 6-orange, 7-magenta, 8-darkgray). Is it possible to somehow override the default settings so that I have "my" colors assigned to all future songs?
 
edit your hotcue padpage to include the script

& cue_color NUM "COL"

When setting cues it will also set the color, when calling cues it will set the color.
you could also add something to onSongload keyboard entry.
 
Thanks!
 
I'm very sorry @LOCODOG but I don't know exactly where to put the script. I tried it see picture but it doesn't work. Can you elaborate more please?
 
well NUM isn't literal, it's a place holder, you could be on any pad number.
that pic you're on pad 1 so NUM should be replaced with 1
likewise "COL" isn't a colour

& cue_color 1 "white"

if you read some script advice and part of the script is ALLCAPS then read that as a place holder for a value
 
You are putting script in the correct location.. and just need to tweak (specify the actual number and color) for the cue_color script.

click on the script, cue_color in the editor . and the description will guide you with examples.

For example: cue_color 1 'yellow'
 
Perfect, now it works as I need. Thanks a lot gentlemen!
 
Hi,

Thank you very much for this script, very helpful! However, I encuntered new problem.

It saves me 80% of the new tracks pain, the remaining 20% has new problem.

Let me explain, to keep it simple I only use Pad 1 for example, the other pads apply accordinglyl.

Take this scenerio,

Pad1 color default is red,
Most of the DJ friendly + modern tracks nowadays (80%), I want Pad1 to be green,

The script above save me a lot of work, when pad1 is pressed, it forces Pad1 to be green.

However, for other 20% tracks, may be Lp version, I would want Pad1 to be purple,

I set pad1 which changed Pad1 to green, then I manually change Pad1 to purple,
However, once I press Pad1 again, the above script Force Pad1 to be green again.

The new problem is : I have no choice to change Pad1 to be purple.

I'm not good at vdjscript, I think the logic might be:
{
If Pad1 is not set yet (blank), set Pad1 to green {1st time, overide default color red}

When Pad1 is pressed and already has %nowcolor, set Pad1 to %nowcolor (keep the %nowcolor)
}

Please amend the script to cater with the above scenerio.
Appreciate very much if anyone could help!

Best Regards
 
has_cue 1 ? hot_cue 1 : set_cue 1 & level 0.0 ? cue_color 1 "green" : cue_color 1 "red"


try something like that, added feature if the upfader is at 0.0 AND the track doesn't have a hot_cue 1 it will set hot_cue 1 as green.
 
Thank you very much for the prompt reply, let me check !
Thanks again
Best Regards
 
locoDog wrote :
has_cue 1 ? hot_cue 1 : set_cue 1 & level 0.0 ? cue_color 1 "green" : cue_color 1 "red"


try something like that, added feature if the upfader is at 0.0 AND the track doesn't have a hot_cue 1 it will set hot_cue 1 as green.


I have tried, it works for me.
Very much appreciated, think out of the box, awesome one line simple and efficient code! Opened my eyes and learnt something here!
Big thanks
Best Regards.