Mixxx

Feature Request: Better Support for DDJ-SX2

Bug #1916492 reported by Robert Grasböck on 2021-02-22

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mixxx	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi!

I'm a lucky owner use of a Pioneer DDJ-SX2 and using the "DDJ-SX" Midi Binding for it.
Most of the features work fine out of the box, but I noticed 2 things:

1. The Wheel does not animate, when the track is played.
2. The Colors of the pads are all in lightblue

Since the DDJ-SX(1) does not have multi color pads, maybe it would make sense to create a own controller support file called "DDJ-SX2" derived from the DDJ-SX, which supports multi color pads?

With version 2.3 of mixxx this would perfectly fit to the Hot Cue Colors.

I have also tried this mapping: https://github.com/tildearrow/Mixxx-Pioneer-DDJ-SX2
It creates different colors for cue points, but not corresponding with the label color
Also the wheel animation does work with this binding.
But unfortunately other things doesn't work so well. :(

I can give it a try to extend the "DDJ-SX", maybe I get things working?
Because the rest works pretty fine. And wiki Doku is also fine.

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Robert Grasböck (l-mail-3) wrote on 2021-02-23:

Would it be a good thing to extend the current Midi binding Pioneer-DDJ-SX-scripts.js / Pioneer DDJ-SX.midi.xml? Or would it be better to have a copy of the code?

If it is somehow possible to ask for the device name "DDJ-SX2", I could extend the needed parts without affecting the original parts.

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Be (be.ing) wrote on 2021-02-23:

I suggest to fork the DDJ-SX script and add the SX2-specific features. When you are done, if someone with an original DDJ-SX tests it and it works fine, we can rename the SX2 mapping for SX/SX2 and delete the old code.