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Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

Embassyworld — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:07:30 -0000

I have an idj2 .... I bought it last year an have mastered it... Yes it freezes and stuffers slightly. After long hard use but I have never had it shut down on me. The more dj knowledge I have acquired I am realizing how amazon this machine is. Now that I have it mastered there are a few things I wish were better. More effects CDj's incorporated and slightly more professional , more like a mix deck. But every time a new idj comes out I am disappointed Idj3 was crap. Because u couldn't load tracks off iPod anymore and needed a computer which was the exact reason i wanted an idj. Mix deck can play iPod but it might as well just be 20 dollar iPod dock I want a fully independent idj That can jam ass like any other professional dj setup. In hindsight. The idj2 is the closest they ever came And for what it is. I love it and if it broke I would buy another one in a hearbeat

Re: DIY drum triggers… reading the sensor scientifically

Kristoff1313 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:37:17 -0000

three years later, I just wish someone could have introduced the scan time value to adjust retrigger time for this module....

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

djgino — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:42:34 -0000

how come key board stopped working and its asking mwe too update my librarian

Re: Steve Cooley live on Electronic Generation Radio

stevecooley — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:29:00 -0000

Thanks! I can't believe I managed to get 90 minutes of my own music mixed together. There are a couple of bobbles, but that just reminds you that there's a human at the controls.

I'm now realizing that I'd usually launch into my standard explanation about how music without singing helps drown out the language processing my brain wants to do all the time, so this type of music usually helps me focus better on engineering tasks.. but... there are quite a few nasa vocal samples in there, so your mileage may vary. :)

Re: Steve Cooley live on Electronic Generation Radio

Ryan Olson — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:01:10 -0000

Listening to this now as I'm trying to get some work done and really digging it. Well done!

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

lukasridgeway — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:59:33 -0000

Take all video files off your IPod. FYI

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

lukasridgeway — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:59:00 -0000

For solving firmware update issue

1) Make sure you're using a PC, not a mac.

2) Try reformatting the USB key. Make sure you format it FAT32

3) Make sure the .upg file is the only file on the key (but it sounds like you've already done that.)

4) Double-check the actual size of the .upg file on the key against the size on your HDD. (Or do an MD5 sum if you're hardcore.)

5) Try using a different USB port to do the upgrade. This shouldn't make any difference, but it's worth a shot.

If all that doesn't work, try using another USB key.

The symptom of it sitting on "Looking for firmware" indefinitely is either due to it being unable to mount the USB key, or not being able to find the file.

Welcome to iDJ2. This iDJ2 contains the latest operating system, v1.12, with Demo Mode. This special
feature will introduce you to using iDJ2. It automatically begins after two minutes if you do not touch the
controls. Once you are done with Demo Mode, we recommend that you deactivate it to avoid unintentionally activating it during a gig.

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

lukasridgeway — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:11 -0000

Welcome to iDJ2. This iDJ2 contains the latest operating system, v1.12, with Demo Mode. This special
feature will introduce you to using iDJ2. It automatically begins after two minutes if you do not touch the
controls. Once you are done with Demo Mode, we recommend that you deactivate it to avoid unintentionally activating it during a gig.

To deactivate Demo Mode, follow these steps:

1. Press UTILITY
2. Press > at the bottom-right corner of the screen
3. Press Demo under the screen
4. Rotate the Push Select knob counter clockwise to change the setting for Start Demonstration to Never

To return to Demo Mode later, you can follow these same steps, selecting an option other than Never for the Start Demonstration setting.

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

Karen Keeble — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:50:29 -0000

I am having trouble getting the IPod DJ2 to read everything on the Ipod. It only reads and stores some of the songs so i have big gaps in my playlists. Also when i update an ipod it leaves old songs on the system and won't update to match the ipod. Can you help me with clearing the memory and starting again so that i don't get these old songs come up. Thank you Karen

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

renerz — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:39:40 -0000

i think that the idj2 is a step in a new direction, it's a great piece of equipment, just a few hiccups to be sorted out..........e.g. static-which i think is caused by the power supply, slow loading, sometimes my external hard drive just disconnects and last but not least.......one should be able too connect a laptop to their mixer.

Re: DIY drum triggers… reading the sensor scientifically

translater — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:43:12 -0000

As for me it's too complicated. You can make it much more easier, using platform that already exist.

Re: DIY drum triggers… reading the sensor scientifically

translater — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:41:32 -0000

As for me it's too complicated. You can use much more easier platforms

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

pelanas — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:20:37 -0000

My friend :

You only have to delete de librarían file from your ipod, from your pc.

Then, next time the idj2 makes a new "Upload " it will create a new librarian file with the new information.

pelanas

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kc (unregistered) wrote, in response to pelanas:

Ya i am having the same problem, If you update your ipod and reload the tracks to the idj2 it keeps the old names ( which dont work) and loads the new ones. I have like 5 copies of every track now and its a pain in the butt load. Does any one have this solution on how to delete or wipe it all clean???

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Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

kc — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:09:58 -0000

Ya i am having the same problem, If you update your ipod and reload the tracks to the idj2 it keeps the old names ( which dont work) and loads the new ones. I have like 5 copies of every track now and its a pain in the butt load. Does any one have this solution on how to delete or wipe it all clean???

Re: DIY drum triggers… reading the sensor scientifically

Scott — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:46:15 -0000

Hey. Thanks for your reply!

Fortunately my design doesn't have as many requirements as yours -- no hand built kick pedal, enclosure doesn't matter because I'm just going to put it inside the rock revolution chassis, and battery powered won't be an issue if I'm able to use this guy's design - http://shiftmore.blogspot.com/... , he hacked a usb-midi adapter for the midi output, and it also powers the arduino through usb! Nice!

I'm looking at several alternate solutions as well though. I found a program called rb2midi which converts the signals from a rock band 2 controller into MIDI. I've emailed him and he's working with me to test see if the rock revolution controller sends the velocity info to the console (or computer). If that doesn't work, I found a good deal on just the PCB of a rock band 2 controller, which means I should theoretically be able to get that, solder the piezos from the rr controller onto the rb2 controller, and voila, PC thinks I am playing a rb2 controller, which means I can use the rb2midi application. All while spending a lot less than any arduino solution.

If all that doesn't work, I am interested in this miduino link you posted. Do you know if his hardware has filters built into get rid of the retriggering problems? If you are not sure, I will email him.

Peace, and thanks again for your valuable input.

-Scott

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

karenkeeble — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:02:34 -0000

I am having this problem as well. Have you worked it out as yet. I want to be able to wipe the libraries and start again. My IDJ2 is not installing everything on my IPOD. I have checked my ipod and everything is on there however the IDJ2 is not showing up all my songs. Every playlist is missing songs and they are not showing up at all under any other search. It is like it has just not synced properly with my ipod. Please help

Re: DIY drum triggers… reading the sensor scientifically

stevecooley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:09 -0000

This short answer is "No, I didn't solve this. :-\"

Here's the longer answer:
Scott, that's where I was when I picked up this project. "Shouldn't this be easier?" I kept thinking. Well, I never did get everything I wanted, but I have learned several things since this thread got started. I remembered that I bought a broken alesis drum machine at a garage sale, so figuring that it's junk anyway, I cracked it open and discovered that the triggers weren't piezo sensors. they were just straight digital switches, but there were piezo sensors near the triggers. So their solution was to grab the trigger digitally, and combine that trigger info with a velocity reading from the piezo. I thought that was pretty interesting.

Second, I realized that I was trying to do waaaay too much at once with waaay not enough experience and understanding of the features I was trying to incorporate. I was trying to do ALL of these things:

* 4 - 6 triggers
* all with velocity
* midi out port
* hand built kick pedal
* decent enclosure for the arduino
* spend as little money as possible
* battery powered

And so what I've learned in the time since this post are these things:
1. battery powered just adds a layer of complexity that doesn't pay off for me.
2. I didn't go to school for this kind of thing, so the money I spend I think of as being instead of paying for classes.
3. the enclosure is really the very very very last thing you should ever ever ever worry about.
4. hand built kick pedals are cool. They're not as good as just buying a kick pedal at guitar center or whatever, but for a web engineer, solving physical engineering problems is fun. That's actually what I was referring to when I said that I'd solved my problem acceptably. I was having problems with one of the parts on my kick pedal because I'd made it out of a wood block, and I solved it be reinforcing that part with metal.
5. Midi out is another layer of complexity that really doesn't pay off for me, like being battery powered. I don't have a drum sound midi box, so my efforts with are going to end up going from a usb connected device (arduino) to software... so why complicate it by putting a midi port on my box and add a USB midi interface? It's just not sensible in retrospect. The better solution is to do whatever you're going to do on the arduino, pass the data back as serial data, pick it up in processing or max/msp or puredata, and then transform it into midi data from there. We're doing that with our beatseqr project (http://beatseqr.com/blog/) and it's kicking ass all day long. If you're able to program in the arduino IDE, you're in the right ballpark to pick up processing. There's at least one great way to output midi data easily with an external library for processing, and tons of ways to pick up serial data from the arduino. That's really the way to go (for me anyway)...
6. Regarding 6 analog triggers and velocity... I've become VERY fond of the arduino playground, and I did find a couple of methods that people have posted for smoothing analog values. I haven't tried them out specifically for this kick drum, and I am using one of the methods on my beatseqr project. Here are some links:

http://www.arduino.cc/playgrou...
http://www.arduino.cc/playgrou... (paul badger is awesome)

I really can't vouch for how this would work with 6 simultaneous triggers for analog values. It's probably doable, but I hit a wall and moved on. Now, don't let my complete lack of training and overcautious use of my money stop you from making progress. :) My inability to solve the problem should not be taken for a good sense of if this problem can be solved at all. It looks like it can. There may be some crafty things you can do using the potentiometer hardware abstraction library along with the debounce/smoothing code in the links above.

http://www.arduino.cc/playgrou...
And I'd highly recommend using the hardware abstraction libraries pretty much all time. They're awesome.

If things don't work out, and you decide this is something you want, and it's worth some money if not hundreds, check this out:

http://tomscarff.110mb.com/mid...

Re: DIY drum triggers… reading the sensor scientifically

Scott — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:47:08 -0000

Hey man. I found your blog via the comments on http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10... and I wanted to ask you some questions about your electronic drum kit and if you were ever able to solve the problems you had.

I was recently given a "rock revolution" drum kit as a gift. I don't even have a 360 to play the game on, it is just to hack to use as "real" electronic drums. So far I have gotten it working to trigger sounds at full volume by hooking it up to the PC as a 360 controller and using xpadder to map the keys to an audio workstation. Of course that is fun, but I need more flexibility. So I want to wire the piezo's up to an arduino so I can output velocity sensitive MIDI information, but I want to make sure there are no problems with it.

At first I thought the thing was going to be easy, until I read pretty much the entire comments on todbot's blog and was disturbed by several of the comments, particularly yours -- mentioning you were having problems with multiple triggers. And someone mentioned that they couldn't get it to play more than one sound simultaneously -- obviously not optimal for playing drums.

I saw Wyatt's post above about Drummaster. That is all well and good, except it adds about $150 additional, which is not something I can afford.

My question is, were you ever able to tweak your setup using an arduino without the significant problems? You say in one of your comments above that you were looking at hardware solutions, and that you were able to "solve your problem acceptably", but it doesn't say specifically what you did. What did you do, and how much did it cost?

Do you think it can even be done with just a plain arduino?
I wonder if not, if I could just somehow simplify the drum master design and simply solder the filters together, not even on a PCB and have them connecting to the arduino?

I don't know a whole lot about electronics or reading schematics, but I have done a couple of soldering projects in the past. I would like to keep this thing as simple/inexpensive as possible, while still retaining full functionality (i.e. no lag, no weird ghost/multiple triggers, and ability to hit at least 4 pads simultaneously)

What do you think? Any info about your setup or any input at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-Scott

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

Dee — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:53:50 -0000

When I load my song into the create from my Ipod most of the song names only show numbers instead of the song name.

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

pelanas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:08:21 -0000

Hi , I am having some problems updateing my ipod in the idj2 : The idj2 mixer reads and keep the new songs, but also keeps the names of songs and files that I have already delete from my ipod, and when I am mixing is a mess. does anybody knows how to avoid this?
How to delete all the info in the idj2, maybe?

pelanas

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

Guest — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:21:27 -0000

I'm having problems with the pitch for some reason it keeps jumping about from 135bpm to say 104bpms and I have no idea why,any body else getting this problem? Upto now this is the only problem I've had with it.

Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

chriff1983 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:14:14 -0000

i have keyboard problems that keep freezing! i have to unplug an replug the usb to keep it typing! can anyone help??

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stevecooley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:31:35 -0000

wait, nevermind. I built a hardware+software solution with Derek Scott. http://beatseqr.com

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Re: Numark iDJ2 to have no nudge??

multimegamixer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:05:47 -0000

I have it since 2 o 3 months, and it´s worked perfectly (in home, no partys), the first thing was to upgrade with the lastest firmware, but since a couple of weeks, maybe one month, it started to freeze, coinciding with the coming of summer. I live in a very warm zone of the planet, and I guessed it was because of the heat, buy I read in some forum, that happends when you connect a hard driver with power suply, a 3,5 hard disk. Then, I tryed with pendrives and it seems to work.

I hope they have helped.

Megamix it´s million mixes!!