DDJ Ergo and pitch reset

Hi Jeff,

Press and hold "shift" button then the "sync" button on deck A or B whichever deck you want to deactivate the sync. The red light should be gone. Move the pitch fader back to center position.

Hope it helps...

Regards,

Rex

Hi Rex,

Thank you for your answer, but I am a bit confused...I use mainly the sync button and not the pitch fader!

If I press and hold the sync button on the deck which just got synched, then it will become the master deck for my next sync move, but the pitch fader on the Ergo won't move and will still be in the center???

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Sorry I was referring to Serato DJ Intro which I always use.

I tried to do it with VDJ and you're right, it won't go back to the original preset BPM. Maybe you can try to map it since you have the Pro version. You may also visit the VDJ discussions/forums to find out if it's possible.

Thanks Rex,  I actually tried VDJ forum and the only solution seems mapping ...but unfortunately I cannot seem to find two free buttons on the Ergo to map them!

Cheers,

Jeff

@Jeff > Try the F buttons top left.

I took a look at this -- the easiest thing you can do, if you're not using the F buttons for video, go into the Settings and go to the Mappers tab, then click the big green + at the bottom left.  Next, press the F2 button.  In the Action field, type "leftdeck pitch_reset 0.1%" (without the quotation marks).  Repeat for the other command; press the big green +, press the F3 button, in the Action field type "rightdeck pitch_reset 0.1%" and click OK.

Thank you Pulse, this is very helpful and I will try it over the w-e as I am not using the video buttons.

Just one question ....why 0.1% instead of 0.0% as I had imagined that the pitch should go back to neutral?

Thanks,

Jeff

@Jeff > Because it's a "return pitch to zero" and if you're actively playing you don't want it to be an instant jump. If you want to make it faster or slower, just change the number.

Got it, thanks for the quick reply!

Hi Pulse, I just tried your recommendation but it didn't work.!

When you press the F2 and F3 buttons once re-mapped as suggested, the name of the song of which you try to reset the pitch , the BPM and the wave form all disappear on the related deck. Also when you re-load a song, no data will show, but the song will play correctly...

It is then a bit difficult to follow which song is palying as no data is available. I am open to another suggestion or modification if needed ;-)!

Cheers,

Jeff

Hrm, it didn't do that here... did you try removing any mapping from that control first?

No, I didn't do anything else before! So you did actually try it and it worked ...?

Ok I will try again and let you know if I get the same result ...the pitch reset was actually working, but all the data about the song was not visible anymore! Should I do anything special with the F1 button on top of F2 and F3?

Cheers,

Jeff

Pulse,

I just tried again and got the same result ...data from the "pitch reseted" deck disappearing completely...name, wave,bpm,etc!

One thing (...which might not be relevant), but when you press F2 to map it, it becomes red and stays red even when you press F3...should I press F2 a second tome once re-mapped so that it somehow "turned off"?  I actually followed exactly your words. Regards, Jeff.

@Jeff > When I did it on my Mac, the F2 press came up blank so it was fine -  I just repeated the process on my PC and it popped-up with the existing mapping for the video transition (the default mapping).  All I did was remove that code (show_pluginpage "Video Transitions" & video_transition) and replaced it with the code above.  Actually, I had a problem with it not targeting the right deck so I used "deck 1 pitch_reset 0.1%" for the F2 button and "deck 2 pitch_reset 0.1%" for the F3 button.  If you want to map decks 3 and 4 (C and D on the controller), after you press the green + icon, hold the shift button when pressing the F2 or F3 buttons.

Either way, I had no issue with information getting cleared; it could simply be that the software was performing an action that was already mapped.

Thank you Pulse for coming back, I will try this tomorrow.

 I also thought of something different as I might never use the 4 decks set-up. Would it be possible to change the mapping of the sync buttons and instead of having them sync to the master deck, I would rather have deck 1 sync to deck 2 and deck 2 sync to deck 1. In this case, I could after use the shift/sync buttons as pitch reset buttons for each deck! What would then be the exact code for new mapping of the sync buttons? 

Many thanks in advance, Jeff.

Hi Pulse, I mapped the video buttons and it is working great, thanks.

Just another question, yesterday while practicing I probably touched something without wanting and it ended up to be great. When I was moving the crossfader, to mix from one song to the other, the master deck and the corresponding light was also moving automatically from one side to the other (therfore there was no nedd to push shift and synch to change the master deck). Unfortunately, when I turned my computer on and tried again today, the set-up was gone!

Would you know what to do to get this automatic master deck selection in line with the crossfader???

Thanks and have a good weekend, Jeff

The crossfader thing is automatic in assigning the master deck for the sync - it shouldn't have "disappeared".

Ok thanks ...welll,it did!

Why is there then a button CUE/SYNC ? ...I thought that it was there to manually assign the master deck! Is it then only used in a 4 decks set-up?

Any idea what I did wrong,so that I can correct it....

Thanks Pulse.

Pulse,

Sorry I obviuosly meant " a button SHIFT/SYNC" and not "CUE/SYNC" to manually assign a master deck ...I am doing something wrong as I could never get this automatic sync back?

Thanks and have a good weekend,

Jeff

I'd hit the guys in the VDJ forum, I don't use the software enough to know all the detailed ins/outs.

Thanks Pulse, I actually did and here 's the answer below which I haven't tried yet.

Cheers,

Jeff

To set the masterdeck back to auto mode, you can do one of the following ..

a. Click with your mouse the label "MASTER" on the deck that is currently masterdeck on the screen

b. SHIFT+SYNC with the Ergo, on the deck that is currently masterdeck.

c. Assign a keyboard shortcut as .. masterdeck off and press that button once

Deleting the & deck 1 masterdeck from the ONIT key will not cause any troubles. On the contrary it will set the masterdeck to auto mode, each time you restart the software.

MAPPING CAN ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE PRO VERSION?? WHY IN MY VDJ INCLUDING DDJ ERGO NOT FIND THE KEY SETTINGS! THANKS!