Unoffical Traktor Wiki

An unofficial Traktor Wiki has been launched.

“An effort to collect info, tips and tricks in one central place and originated out of a discussion in the Traktor forums.”

BCD3000: support for Windows and Mac OS X + incl. Traktor 3 LE

The next generation of BCD2000, Behringer’s BCD3000, will support Windows as well as Mac OS X! Just like the BCD2000, Behringer’s newest MIDI Controller comes with a 4 channel audio interface and looks like a BCD2ooo with white painted controllers, but includes Traktor 3 LE. (I must think of Hercules DJ console and the light version of Traktor 2.5 + Bye Bye B-DJ)

The BCD3000 should be available on the 2nd quarter of 2007 (which must be the 4th quarter of 2008 in Behringer’s calculation of times

BCD2000 + Traktor + MIDI Rules + Mac OS X

When I started to with the first MIDI Rules Prototype I had already in my mind to support Windows and Mac (and also Linux). Until now the only solution build on MIDI Rules is to marriage the BCD2000 with Traktor (this was my initial motivation to create MIDI Rules). Because there was no BCD2000 driver for Mac, there was also no application for MIDI Rules on Mac. But now things getting faster:

A smart guy evinyatar build a BCD2000 MIDI driver for Mac (with now from Behringer I guess).

And that’s not all: He also created a .dmg file of MIDI Rules (build up on MIDI Rules Prototype 2006-12-25). that you can easly use on your Mac. His post about BCD2000, Traktor, MIDI Rules on Mac OS X tells you how to setup the system. Different from Java for Windows, the MacOS X version by Apple doesn’t come with MIDI support. You have to install a third party library. You will also need at least MacOS X 10.4 because Java 1.5 is required for MIDI Rules (as far as I know there’s no Java > 1.4.x for MacOS X 10.3).

Unfortunately, there’s still now BCD2000 audio driver for Mac.

10 points for Enviyatar! (Btw.: It seems that we share the same first name…)

BCD2000/Traktor mappings available for MIDI Rules Prototype 12/25/2006

Updated mappings for BCD2000/Traktor2 and BCD2000/Traktor3 (support for 3.0 – 3.2) are available.

For change lists see documentation links on http://cycokraut.wordpress.com/midi-rules/download

MIDI Rules Prototype 12/25/2006 released

MIDI Rules Prototype 12/25/2006 has been released.

Old rule files have to be modified to run with this new version (see ‘HOWTO upgrade rule files.txt’ included in the release/installation folder)

BCD2000/Traktor Audio Problems

If you have the problem that “you can’t here anything on the phones” or something like that, please take a look at:

Sound Problems – Bcd 2000 (Native Instruments Forum)

or

does anyone here using a traktor?? (Xylio Forum)

but don’t use the comment function of this blog for audio-related support questions (if you haven’t make a donation before )

Get prepared for the upcoming MIDI Rules prototype update

The next update of MIDI Rules prototype will be based on Java(tm) 5 (a.k.a. 1.5). So if you don’t already have a Java(tm) 5 runtime environment installed*, you should think about upgrading your system.

* You can check the version of your installed Java(tm) runtime environment in the windows control center.

Keep MIDI Rules running ’til you’re done

Keep the MIDI Rules console window open until you’re done.
If you close the window no more MIDI messages will be processed.

Minor updates for BCD2000/Traktor mappings (10/11/2006)

I just released new versions of ‘BCD2000-Traktor3 – Cycokrauts Extended Flavor A’ and ‘BCD2000-Traktor2 – Cycokrauts Extended Flavor A’.

A nice new feature if you use the pitch slider AND the sync button: BACK-TO-TOP + SYNC will reset the deck tempo (pitch) to 0%.
When you first use the pitch slider for changing the deck tempo and later the sync button, the pitch slider’s mid position (+/- 0%) will not represents Traktor’s 0% deck tempo. You can now press BACK-TO-TOP and SYNC (the pitch slider should be in the mid position of course) and the deck tempo will be set to 0% in Traktor.

Here comes the full change list:

BCD2000-Traktor3 – Cycokrauts Extended Flavor A:

• pitch bend resolution (=sensitivity) can be configured for bend buttons and jog wheels separately (in Traktor’s midi setup).
• browse list navigation: now with adjustable sensitivity (in Traktor’s midi setup)
• ‘BACK TO TOP’ + CUE -> set cue point + snap beat
• controller mapping: ‘BACK TO TOP’ + ‘SYNC SLAVE’ -> Reset deck tempo (to 0%)

BCD2000-Traktor2 – Cycokrauts Extended Flavor A:

• controller mapping: ‘BACK TO TOP’ + ‘SYNC SLAVE’ -> Reset deck tempo (to 0%)
• bug fix “pitch slider is inverted respect of BCD”

For the next updates I plan the following new features/enhancements:

• Ability to switch the EQ knobs and buttons to deck FX controls (currently only master FX is supported)
• Increase the precision of the pitch sliders (from 0.12% to 0.06%, I’m not 100% sure if it’s possible)
• Enhanced cueing functionality

Download the updates

Why you can’t adjust pitch to 0% or EQ to 0db with your BCD2000 (yet)

Unfortunately the BCD2000 doesn’t send the midi message for the “zero” / mid position !

In general each slider and knob can send 128 different midi messages (from 0 to 127) . The midi message for the mid position (= zero for pitch and EQ db) is 65. The midi messages send by the BCD jump from 0..64 to 66..127. More precisely the value 64 (the nearest value below the “mid value” ) is send multiple times (e.g.: … 62, 63, 64, 64, 64, 64, 66, 67, …).

What we can do:
1. Ask Behringer why the BCD2000 sliders and knobs don’t send the midi message for the “mid/zero postion”, this is data2 = 65 (40 hex).
2. Instead of skipping a value in the middle (64), it ’s possible to leave out the highest value 127 by shifting the midi messages with data2 > 65: receive data2 -> send data2 – 1. This is a upcoming feature of my BCD2000/Traktor mappings.