Don’t Believe the Hype! (A lot of Headaches)
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
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