Completely hands-on, mouseless use of Novation Nocturn with Traktor PRO

I recently got the Nocturn from Novation looking for a cheap, portable and versatile midi controller that I could use mainly for production work inside Reason/Record but equally well when dj-ing. I scoured the inter-webs high and low looking for a mapping for Traktor PRO, but the few I did find were very basic and/or poorly mapped... at least according to my needs, no disrespect intended for other peoples' work. This is how I set up to make an advanced, custom mapping for Traktor that would allow me to completely forget the mouse or laptop track-pad.

Here's the result of quite a few hours of work spread across several days. It's by no means perfect, as neither is the Nocturn for dj-ing, but I did try it out and it feels very good. It's easy to use and there are quite a few features crammed into this little controller.

All I ask in return is your help improving the scrub control. Best I could come up with is a bit limited. you can only scrub through a portion of the track (as much as the knob allows). Although they are endless rotaries, I couldn't get them to act truly endlessly and scrub through an entire track from start to finish, but coupled with the beat-jump control it gets the job done.












Download from here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4j5c5u


Your opinions?

 

Hey mate,

Thanks a lot for the info.

I have just got a new Nocturn myself and I am trying to make a set up as this one that you show here:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5900/decksmixer.png

But for some reason the controls from the deck A are controlling the buttons on deck B and the buttons I assigned for deck B are controlling the deck A

I noticed you uploaded some files for the Nocturn. Can you tell me how to open them?

Should I open Traktor first and then open the file with Automap? Or should I load the file first on Automap and then Traktor?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Kevin

 

To be on the safeside you shoud fire up the Automap Server, load the automap I uploaded, then run Traktor, go into midi controller settings, hit import and load the .tsi file I uploaded.

I notice the download link is still valid. Good luck and don't hesitate to ask if you're running into problems, I will be happy to help.

 

Hey thanks a lot for your answer

I will try that later and will see how it goes.

Thanks again.