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Topic: Stems pads not working (and others)
Hey I just got Virtual DJ and I don't have a real DJ controller so I'm using my Ableton Move. I've set up my pads to work as the pads in the software, but when I use them in stems mode, it just doesn't work most of the time. About 1 out of every 10 presses it'll actually work. All the stems are already generated for all the songs and when I actually click the buttons with my mouse it works fine, just not with the pads for some reason. The fx pads that I have from the Stems & FX plugin (Vocal echo, instrumental echo, instrumental braker and drums echo) work fine every time, but not the vocals, melody, bass and drums. Also, I have pads set to loop 16, loop 50% and loop 200%, but it just doesn't work really, sometimes it doesn't add the loop at all, sometimes it makes it 32 beats instead of 16, sometimes the 200% and 50% act as 400% and 25%, just very weird

idk can anyone help?
 
geposted 3 days ago @ 1:54 am
oh also I mapped play_pause onto my play button and it also only works like 1/10th of the time
 
and, is there a way to make just one pad for auto loop, like Serato has? like it'll figure out how many bars to loop, pressing it again deactivates the loop
 
Most likely you'll have to create a device definition for your controller for everything to work properly.

If I could take a guess, your pads right now send velocity messages which are not interpreted "correctly" by the software. I mean that for VirtualDJ to consider that a button has been pressed, it must send 0x7F. However, when using velocity buttons, this means that you have to push the button/pad really hard to get that value and if you don't VirtualDJ ignores it.

This can be solved by creating/using a device definition that tells VirtualDJ exactly what to expect from every button.


PS: Custom Device Definition need a PRO license.
 
Alright thanks, I'll try it
 
Although I don't think it is that because I can use them fine for everything else, under the hotcues, slicer and sampler pages they work fine, just not stems