Mixtrack XFader going bonkers

Hi everyone,

I'm in a little bit of a desperate hole right now, my crossfader somehow managed to put itself off zero. As in, the virtual crossfader is showing up as in the middle position (playing both tracks to master) when the real thing is around halfway down to the right deck. The software still sees the full range of motion; 3/4s of the fader is just now allocated to the left deck, and 1/4 is allocated to the right. Goes a lot slower than normal fading in from the left to right, after it passes the software's middle point is speeds up a whole LOT to get to the right deck in the 1/4 chunk of fader it has to go.

It's doing this in Traktor 2 Demo (poor atm :S, but 30 min is all I need atm with school haha), VDJ LE/ME, and Mixxx (freeware program). Any help would be appreciated a lot, thanks guys

*right, I THINK it was static. not sure. I just remember zapping it accidentally a bit, but it worked fine after that. on Traktor's restart, it started doing this, ugh.

 

Pretty sure it's a hardware issue, contacted Numark. For those that may be interested, there are TWO workarounds.

a. Adjust Traktor to recognize the fader as a relative input (Encoder-like, in other words). To do this, just find Position in your mapping (Settings - Controller Manager - Device - Numark Mixtrack etc.). Set the Interaction mode to Relative, this will make Traktor look at your crossfader like an encoder, kinda. Now set the Rotary Sensitivity way up (mine is 221%). Your fader will now be a lot more sensitive, and should be able to make the full travel in Traktor with less movement on the real physical controller. Adjust it so you can easily fade between decks while staying BETWEEN the dead zones on your fader. I'm able to reliably cut out one deck to another while staying between the second mark on the left and the first mark on the right, my dead zones (My Rotary Sens is again, 221%). You lose travel distance and precision, but it works. (You lose PRECISION because the crossfader will NEVER reliably zero like this. This just lets you fade between decks with the crossfader is all, you should end up overtraveling the virtual crossfader going either which way to a deck.)

b. (which I've seen around a lot) - Up-fader, volume fader crossfading, w/e you wanna call it. Find the virtual crossfader's middle position and leave it there, use the volume faders to adjust. I tried doing this, and it's definitely doable, but mehh, I want my crossfader cuts SOMEtimes though