Virtual Dj Jog Wheel Sensitivity Settings
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May 10, 2013 DDJ Ergo Inverted Jog in VDJ. I just bought a new Pioneer DDJ Ergo and I managed to map it to VDJ. @Christian Did you not load the preset settings for the DDJ-ERGO in Virtual DJ? Cue sensitivity for the stuttering-cue and Pitch-Bend sensitivity to finely adjust the song using the rim of the Jog-Wheel. You can do the Jog-Wheel. Jan 06, 2015 Hello All, Very confused with this. I'm new to the mixtrack pads of djing. I have the Mixtrack Pro2 and using Virtual DJ 7 ( also DJ Intro). The experience is odd to say the least and I'm sure there is silly solution to this. My jog wheels are acting all out of wack! If i boot my computer up and start playing,most of the time the right one works perfect, in the sense that when scratch is on. Oct 15, 2011 I posted this on the VDJ forum but never got a response so i'm asking here. Does anyone know how I can slow down the Jog wheel pickup once the hand is released from the jog wheel? As soon as the hand is released after scratching the jog wheel jumps to 100% audio speed, it sounds very unnatural. I'm not taking about the jog sensitivity btw.
Digital DJ Tips reader Pete writes: “When my Numark N4 is set to scratch mode, and I move my hand across the top or very close to but not touching the jogs, the music will stop. This does not happen though when I turn off scratch mode. I have contacted Numark and they tell me it’s an earthing problem or I have it on the wrong type of surface. Well I have tried every type of surface and the problem won’t go away. My warranty is up so I can’t send it back.”
“Have you seen this or heard of this problem before. Can I maybe ground the controller somehow myself? I am out of ideas. Please help!”
Digital DJ Tips says:
This is a common problem, and is due to the capacitive way that the Numark (and many other manufacturers’) jogwheels detect the presence of fingers nearby. While some manufacturers have sensitivity controls to adjust this, sometimes even these don’t help. Bottom line is that capacitive jogwheels can be notorious depending on what the controller is connected to, what other gear is nearby and so on.
Numark is correct in saying you should try earthing the unit. A quick test would be to touch the earth pole on the back of the controller with your fingers and try scratching with the other hand on the jogwheel at the same time, to see if this solves the problem. If so, you need to ground the unit by attaching a wire to this pole and attaching the other end to the ground.
I have actually done this with my VCI-300 by dangling the other end of the wire in a drainful of water behind the DJ booth (crazy but true)! I certainly don’t recommend that emergency solution though. If you know what you’re doing (and only if you know what you’re doing, otherwise please seek an electrician’s help) you can use the earth pin on a mains plug. Alternatively, if any other gear has an earth pole, you can connect to that and see if that helps.
Otherwise, it sounds like it is indeed a hardware issue and the only way to sort it out would be to return the unit for repair.
Have you had issues with jogwheels not behaving as they should? How have you gone about solving them? If you have any words of advice for Pete, please share them in the comments.
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This is a hardware limitation of MIDI or HID controllers that do not have touch-sensitive jogwheels.
If the jogwheels are not touch sensitive, the music will not be stopped when they are touched or held still (Like a vinyl record would.) The music will only stop and scratch while the jogwheels are actually moving. There will be small delay after you stop scratching to detect that the jogwheel has stopped moving.
If you are serious about scratching, then you will need to upgrade to a controller with touch sensitive jogwheels to avoid this problem.
If your MIDI controller does have touch-sensitive jogwheels, the scratching delay may be caused by either not using a low-latency capable sound card (An ASIO capable card is required for this on a Windows PC) or you have not set the latency buffer low enough (This can be adjusted on PC via CONFIG -> Sound Setup -> ASIO Config button or CONFIG -> Performances on Mac.)