Feature Request: Better Support for DDJ-SX2

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: l-mail-3
Date: 2021-02-22T14:18:36Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1916492

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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.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: l-mail-3
Date: 2021-02-23T08:57:07Z

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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.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2021-02-23T16:05:00Z

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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.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2021-02-23T16:05:54Z

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https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/wiki/Contributing-Mappings

Start by copying the files for the DDJ-SX and renaming them.

[Krafting]

Hello, I have a SX2 too and I tried the mapping https://github.com/tildearrow/Mixxx-Pioneer-DDJ-SX2 and it does work pretty well. The color of the hot cue works as expected if you select the Serato colors in the Mixxx settings. and thewheel animation does work for me without issues it seems. the only issue with this binding is the reversed Tempo "fader", there is an issue on the repo for that. It would be awesome if the binding was included with Mixxx by default!

Thank you!

[Swiftb0y]

Hey there @Krafting,
We'd love to have that mapping in mixxx, but they need to go through our review process. We have a Wiki Page on that. On first impression, the mapping unfortunately needs a little bit of work until it satisfies our standards. Nevertheless, you'd still be very welcome to contribute it via a Pull request. Are you interested in working on that?