Robert Quick

I’m not so bad with audio gear now, but lighting has become my bane at the moment. I know my setup is half decent, but I’m always finding new light’s that I think would look awesome in my setup. The customers probably don’t care that much about the lights, but I like everything to look pretty and awesome!!

Thanks Gulli.

I actually wanted to add a modifier to them so it only moved the control on screen when the shift button was held down, so I had to dig into the XML. Was easy enough to do though! (Being a programmer by day helps though!)

Chuck van Eekelen, post: 43355, member: 2756 wrote: LOL … it’s a survivable amount at the end of the day. It’s what I did too. Figured worst case I’d end up dining out one night less that month.

Exactly, it’s not a huge outlay in the grand scheme of things.

Thanks for the info above, I had already read the manual through and figured out I needed the 3kHz signal.

Just had a quick 10 min test in my lunch break (The luxuries of working from home!!).

Once I figured out how to assign a mapping to a MIDI device, it worked perfectly. MC6000 syncs up perfectly for navigation and deck control. SC2900 (only tested 1) worked perfectly in both MIDI mode and DVS hybrid mode. Hybrid mode seems the better option as you still get the LED ring working, unlike in MIDI mode. Managed to turn my latency down to 256 samples (Used to have it at about 768 in Traktor) and it worked fine for the 10 mins I played around with it!! Will obviously need a bit more testing before using at a gig.

Have you ever edited any of the MIDI maps for Cross?? There are a couple of things I want to change on the MC6000 mapping: Not control the master volume by default, and the same for the cue/mix knob.

You have to add VAT onto the price. And the £ price it comes up with excluding VAT is £69.99, so £83.29 with VAT.

Rest of the reply was great. I see from screenshots that Cross has snap and quantise.

Have you managed to test it with the SC2900’s at all??

So I finally got around to installing the free version of cross. From what I’ve seen so far I like it!! I downloaded the remote app for my iPad as well which looks to be great as well!!

Just a couple of questions: Have you used the automix much?? How well does it work?? Better than Traktor’s cruise mode?? The only gripe I have with Traktors cruise mode is that the volume levels when it switches songs are waaaay too loud (Brins track 2 all the way up to full volume, and then starts decreasing track 1’s volume).

Is there an option to autoload the next song into a deck like there is in Traktor?? This isn’t a dealbreaker, but it’s a very nice feature to have.

How well does it integrate with the MC6000/SC2900’s?? Have you used both at the same time??

Overall it seem’s a lot quicker and more stable than Traktor, and I am really tempted to drop the £70 odd on it this weekend and play around with it.

Chuck,

Thanks for the detailed reply.

Using DVS with the SC2900’s would be good!! I don’t plan on taking the turntables out to gigs anyway. You can definitely do timecode with the MC6000 and VDJ, as I have done it before, basically exactly as you said. The only downside is that you lose 2 channels (3/4) on the controller. The latest firmware on the MC6000 brought in the feature to still send the input signal of channels 3/4 through to the soundcard when the upfader is down, so it works fine. Just use channels 1/2 to control the internal mixer. Although by the sounds of it the SC2900’s have a midi map built into Cross anyway, so I’ll try that as well!

Didn’t realise there was a 30 day trial, will definitely be trying it out at the weekend! Importing the Traktor database will be a timesaver as well!

Thanks again!

It’s pretty handy, keeps the laptop out of the way. I just use a wireless mouse as well to make things easier, can be pretty hard pressing tiny controls on a iPad screen!

Do you have an ipad???

http://djworx.com/serato-remote/