Xtreme Mapping App Reviews

I was hopeful for version 1.3, I was really looking forward to multiple mapping support as well as a few other minor fixes that would really make this a useable app instead of a good concept. Sadly as of updating to version 1.3 any TSI i try to open is detected as corrupted. All attempts at troubleshooting have thus far failed to fix the situation. If the bugs get worked out this could be a great product, as it stands version 1.3 is totally broken for me.

its so weird, because it is a great concept, and really easy to use, but there are so many features that dont seem to work??? i wonder if its because im using traktor 2.5 but these are the problems for me. 1.in the file area, if i choose the x1 template, then i cant choose midi routing ala the generic midi option so once in the generic midi option, i choose the rotary encoder for loops and browsing(by using the wizard), and neither work when used in traktor there is no option for cue points 1-8 in the wizard, which is just bizarre, since cues are so important in traktor. i just dled today, so thats all ive found. Still like the interface and concept, but you have to make it work, thats why i gave it 2 stars.

The title says it all: if you upgrade to 2.6, you wont be able to use this application. With the latest changes in 2.6, though, this app is fairly useless. Only buy if youre sticking with 2.5 or earlier.

several features now available in traktor arent mappable via your app. please update to accomodate the new version

Program is very easy. Especially once you memorize the keyboard shortcuts. Then things really move fast. I have two problems with it otherwise it would be a 5 star. I cant copy out the comments. I like to group comments for similar functions so I can quickly find them in my maps. Say Deck A bla bla bla. Boom all 10 functions are next to eachother. I would really like to copy a comment out of one map and past it to the other 9 maps. My other issue I just noticed is when I copy out a map, it loses the button it was mapped to. Now that I can copy out and paste which is better than reselecting it, but it would be nice to make a 100% duplicate map. This would speed things up since some maps have everything the same except the modifiers. I know we cant please everyone but all and all a good program.... Just wish I didnt have to use a Mac :P Oh do any of this stuff someone let me know.

Please, please, please add an ability to edit multiple comments simultaneously. With very complex mappings and copying and pasting multiple commands, it can take me eons to go through and edit the comments on every command to keep everything organized in groups. If you can give me the ability to highlight and edit comments for multiple commands Ill give this 5 stars.

Needs new mapping for Remix Decks and Touchstrip parameters. A floating clipboard would be nice too.

This is a good app, but Traktor 2.6.2 introduced some substantial changes, primarily the ability to map the Remix Decks. This app really needs to be updated to allow this.

The program does pretty much the same thing as Traktors built-in component it mimics but with pretty design. The UI paradigm is exactly same as in Traktor: user-hostile selection from long nested menus of submenus. It does make up for some of most horrific Traktors shortcomings. It provides things we take for granted from software like copy/paste and ability to change assignment and channel of a set of selected mappings. These alone make it worth $8. But it also makes things more inconvenient since there is no immediate way to test that the mappings work. Instead you have to save then import into Traktor. I suspect this was created by some NativeInstruments engineers to make some extra $$ on side. It shows exact same disregard for user experience and interface design principles as the orignal Traktors controller manager. It also mysteriously can parse and generate Traktors proprietary .tsi files. The only reason it got 3 stars instead of one is because Traktors controller manager is such an atrocity against users. Any improvement over that feels massive.

This is a good update, and has added MOST Remix Deck mapping functionality. Unfortunately, there isnt a Direct Mapping In/Out for direct mapping sample cells, and so if youve taken the time to fully map a remix deck to a controller, and used direct mapping for any of the cells, your mapping cannot be loaded into Xtreme Mapping and updated unless you are willing to lose ALL of your direct mapping commands (which you may know is at least 128 mapping lines per remix deck, each line including at least one modifier state; if you are deck specific, you also have to update the Assignment for each command). Big time hassle to have to re-do that work in the Traktor controller mapping editor… But for everything else, this app drastically speeds up your mapping workflow, and many of my mappings would have taken ages longer without this app.

I finished mapping out a remix deck on my APC40 and was not ready to do it all over again. Obviousalias initially scared me away because I thought the program woudn’t even open a .tsi file that had remix deck stuff in it. But what hes talking about is the “Add in” and “Add out” menus in the program to add new controls are still outdated and don’t have all the new commands for mapping out the remix deck. But the program opens .tsi files with the new commands just fine. Its not really a big deal, just do the initial mappings in Traktor. I was able to open my .tsi file, bulk duplicate all the new midi controls I made for the remix deck, bulk reassign them all to remix deck D, and change the midi channels that were different in groups. Being able to do that saved me several tedious hours of work. But I was not able to change all the modifier values from M3 to M4 all at once like I needed, nor was I able to change Deck value on the Slot # Cell # State modifier. That was kind of agrivating that I had to sit here and do all that, but its better then doing all of the mapping by hand. This app will be worth a full 5 starts when I can bulk edit any mapping controls that share any common setting. Until then its still a work in progress. But for now, its still a big time saver.

This is an excellent app BUT.. where is the Scratch command and Direct Mapping. This app crashes so save often as I personally have about 3 or 4 different map versions open to reference. Some very nice and needed mappings are missing but for the most part you can do a lot in here. Im waiting on an update so I can give it 5 stars. Not much left but to add the few mappings that are new in the version and to put in Scratch along with a the Remix Deck modifiers. If you set up any mappings outside of what this app can do for you it will not show up when you open the map and will overwrite with missing mappings if you save. So again.. save different versions, and save often! Sometimes dragging from one map to another will cause the app to crash also. Just warnings but by far extremely useful for everything else its not missing.

Everyone seems to be praising this program but it is far from great. Long summary Short: Cons: No ability mass edit button interactions, LED interactions, comments and there is no way to view LED. A lot of workarounds needed to complete simple tasks. Critical Value changing error. No stated Traktor Pro 2.6.7 support Well need of an Update (Personally I am back to using Traktor’s mapping to edit) Pros: Looks like it is good for people creating mapping for a new controller. My goal and purpose of using this program was to quickly rewrite a mapping for my controllers. I have been mapping my controllers for the past 3 years many from the ground up. I was drawn to this program from all the online reviews of how simple it was and how it could do soo much more than Traktor could’nt do. Now the design is alot simpler than Traktor’s with the ability to drag and drop the location of the mapping and to use the up and down arrows to scroll besides that it can be just as much a pain as Traktor. First off if multiple commands are highlighted you would think that the learn button would work… It doesn’t…You have to got to something you mapped copy the mapping then go back to settings and paste it again. There are a lot of workarrounds like this that you will have to learn that really shouldnt be in an “extreme mapping” but this is a minor inconvenience…There is no options to mass edit button interactions, LED interactions, comments and there is no way to view LED so it becomes a lot easier to just stick with Traktor for functions like this (LED color functions is important especially on my launchpad with over 100 range of colors). Bust still these are all very small inconveniences, as I was working on my Launchpad’s effects I noticed that when I tested it through traktor and tried again with extreme mapping it would change values 1’s to 0 or true to false in all 32 of the effect slots I was working with every time (it is a good thing I had a backup). This may not seem like a bit problem but when you cannot mass edit the values It becomes a very very huge problem. With this headache I though it might be time to update to 2.6 (now 2.7) and now the program say it does not even support this version. It still looks like it might work but I have since stopped using this program and gone back to Traktor because it is a lot simpler to have the confidence that Traktor as cumbersome as it is just works. I have had a little less than a month of use with this program on Mavericks. Again I want to state that my purpose of using this programs was to edit mappings and not create ones from scratch. It seems as if this program may be great for people creating a program from the ground up but for me it is at this point totally unusable. Hope the developer plans a update very soon! Any questions or help contact me carelesswreck @ gmail and I will be glad to help

I purchased Xtreme Mapping almost two weeks ago and have held off writing a review of any kind until now. Regrettably, it is a decidedly negative review due to my utter frustration in the apps IN-compatibility with Traktor Pro v. 2.8.x in SPITE of the claims on both the developer’s website as well as the product details page in the Mac App Store which, to omy mind, is false advertising. Nonetheless, the issue here is that in order to get a so-called compatibility file, one must subit one’s name and email address via a form on the developer’s site. You can submit it once, you can submit it ten times, you can submit it using different email addresses — no response whatsoever, not from an autoresponder, a human, no one. In trying to resolve this issue using the developer sites so-called ‘Xtreme Mapping Support link, I, again, received no reply which, at least, was consistent with my experience trying to request the compatibility file in the first place. I was under the impression that in order to offer apps through the Mac App Store, there had to be some sort of FUNCTIONING means of contacting the developer for support or what have you. I must have been mistaken as there clearly is no one at the switch in this situation and I guess I just have to absorb the $8 loss and be bitter with both Xtreme Mapping and the App Store, alike for allowing developers to offer their products for purchase without having to provide any sort of responsive, active product support.