Hiii I'm a mother to my 1 1/2 year old, and have been djing and learning software when my baby goes to sleep most nights and other free time! it has given me so much confidence in my abilities to learn, I always thought I was forever not going to be able to learn an instrument but after taking the time to learn all my daw and hardware/software I actually feel comfortable mixing 😭💖💯. Thank you for this video, I have a few pieces of hardware and have been using serato since I got my DDJ. I learned how to mix first on virtual dj and other free programs but this is a very powerful program, I did not know this at first and now they are stepping up their game. I appreciate the information sharing and the concrete info!! Much appreciated and thank you for the recognition da ladies❤ I just love this community a lot and feel very accepted wherever I go💖
Just recently switched from traktor. Learning VDJ. Want to use my F1 for stems and sample triggers. and of course the lights Can you please link to your page on how to setup triggers and I'm stoked. VDJ has changed how I DJ... Love it
Appreciate cha bro 👊Been using Serato for Decades and realize I've been missing out big time with Virtual DJ, especially since I can now record my DJ mixes in Stems (All decks and fx in separate wave files). Wow, will be a game changer for post editing / mastering
@@djlefave Yea but on desktop its a dedicated thumbnail in your description area and it also appears on the right column in suggested. Been trying to figure out how that's done or if TH-cam is experimenting with certain channels. I know all the tricks except that one lol
@DJ Naydee that makes Teo of us lol. I literally have no idea. Maybe i have it embedded in the video as like a card and it pulled it from there??? I literally have no game plan. I just record and post hahaha. I'm just lucky I seem to have more winners than lovers lately.
Thanks for the tip! I am having an issue where my pad is stuck in momentary mode so every time I release my finger from the pad the stem effect turns off. I tried to find settings to put it back in toggle mode but can't find it. Any idea how to fix this? Thank you!
My best tip is to run this question through chat gpt and tell it what controller you have and ask it to help you troubleshoot it. If it's a software issue, it could help. If it's hardware, well.....that's a different story. My advice is to go into mapping and try using factory default first and see if you see the same issue. If you do, it's probably hardware. Simply remap one of your unused buttons that works and you could be good to go
Hi, hope U well, I've got ddj sb2, l can get stems on the four pads, however how do l get stem fx ,e.g vocal echo etc, because l only have four pads, thanks in advance.
Well...since you were the first to ask and the process from what I understand is tailored for each controller, what controller would you like me to try to demonstrate with? (No promises....but I'd like to at least try to make it customized for ya if I can!)
@@djlefave You could do the Numark DJ to Go Touch or the same one you did in the original. Once I get the idea how it is done on that I can probably figure it out from there. Thanks!
LeFave! You are the man! Makin' every other Dj software obsolete! I've got the next challenge for you sir! Mapping Stems and Stem FX to the Samper section on the Traktor Kontrol S8! I've got Stems mapped to the Sampler Volume Sliders (Group Vol, as its called in the Hardware Manual on the VDJ website, #29 of the layout) It works beautifully, but the display does not show the volume of each stem... I've got the FX buttons (#30) to turn on FX for each Stem, but the button doesn't light up when activated... Aaaand, the Sampler FX Knobs (#31).. They do show that they are adjusting the parameters, but nothing actually happens... I'm pretty new to the scripts, but I'm totally lost here... Loving your channel and your super positive attitude! Keep it coming!
First off, thanks so much for the kind words! I appreciate them very much! There's two things that need to happen, and it sounds like you got the first down, which is remapping the MIDI keys inside of VDJ. Unfortunately, the second part is a little bit more tricky and I have failed if/when I tried to do it. From what I understand, there is an XML mapping file associated with your controller inside of VDJ's documents. There are LED functions inside that XML that need to be updated to correspond with your script. I have a Kontrol S4 and it notoriously never wants to cooperate with VDJ. I guess I'm saying that I feel your pain, and hope my quick tip on the XML file leads you down the path for your solution.
@@djlefave Wow, thanks for the quick response! Ok, yeah, I figured it wouldn't be simple, ha. I'll keep at it and come back here if I get good results. For now I'll leave my Pioneer XP-2 connected and select the stems that I want to apply FX to from there. Although, having 48 pads is a little overkill, haha
Thanks I worked exactly as you showed it is there a way of adjusting the vocal as some Acappella vocals after separating the instruments sound very electronic and not natural is there a fix for this
Newer tracks will sound better than older tracks. You can assign it to your eq knobs and fine tune it. Or you can purchase a track with its stems which are already separated if quality is your goal.
@@djlefave thank a As i use my deck for radio broadcast I gone for the clean look as most of my stuff is just playing tracks the stem was very helpful to lift vocals and will be able to run Competition on the seperations Really glad I found your channel as it so good be able to get so much great info thanks for all you do as much appreciated
@@djlefave It works!!!! i guess all it needs is a space between pad and single colon. another thing sir. Do you have any tweak settings for numark mixtrack pro 2 for performance use as well and for more convenient playing.
Hi DJ LeFave please is it possible to map with Vdj 8 also an old American Audio vms4 controller? I'm only interested in scroll playlist and load deck 1 and load deck 2 functions.
It looks like it is supported www.virtualdj.com/manuals/hardware/americanaudio/vms4/installation.html I didn't see browse features, but they could possibly be mapped. Try those installation instructions first then holler if it's not there and we'll get to scripting/mapping some buttons for ya!
Helloy, I was wondering, can you help me my stamps do not work and I have a DDJ 800 controller can you show me how to get them to work with my controller?
Hardware controls software. If those controllers can be mapped to vdj, they can do stems. If they can't be mapped, then that's the only reason why. Vdj let's you teach old dogs new tricks
@eddiebhoy1973 best advice i can give is that It's free to download and free to try and free to install and free to Uninstall, so you're free to give it a go and see how it performs for you, right?
I have a question. when looping lets say hot cue 1, then go to hot cue 2 , sometimes ill go back to cue1 and the loop is gone. do you know a setting to keep that loop?
@@djlefave manual loop. hit cue and loop at the same time. i use serato but swapping back to vdj for video and this is stumping me. . serato video sucks!
@@bizzybdj I hear you man! That's one of the reasons I jumped from Serato. Did it right in the beginning of 2020, and it actually worked out well once we were all stuck at home lol. The video is great, but what I really love is the library. File/song management is, imo, much easier with VDJ. To give you some advice on your question, though, I think you should check out the CUELOOP padpage. Basically, this will both set and store a cue and a loop anywhere in a track that you can jump to and fro. If you want to have it as a manual two button smashing event, I'm sure there is a way to remap it, but out of the box this looks like it can do what you are looking for. Use the Pro Skin and then check the pad pages. You can even reassign the first 4 pages so that one includes the CUELOOP and then your controller instantly picks it up without any more mapping needed. That's what I have done with my DDJ-SZ...gave it some STEM control. Now all is right in the world.
@syntaxbeatbox the software will do anything you tell it to do. I recommend asking chat gpt for the solution. It apparently also know vdj scripting now lol
Yeah they've updated the whole interface since this was made. The capability is still there.... but getting there now isn't as easy. I'm not sure fan of the 2024 remodel. Are you?
@LeFave I'm not a fan specially because it's asking for a stringer computer to keep using the updated stems so for now I'm using the older version before the update 2024
Actually, that’s not what I want at all… I have a xdj-re and can access everything okay but I can’t access the stems from my deck, I have to click on them with the mouse… How do I change the beat jump button to show me the stems instead
It's pretty easy to do, especially if you don't use all of your pad pages currently. Do you or is there a free one? Basically yoi just reassign one of those pad pages from what they are currently to the stems pad page and you're good to go! I'll try to cover that in tonight's live stream. I just did that exact same thing on my flx4
@@djlefave yeah I have free pages, I only use the hotcue and loops, I tried adding them to the last button “beat jump” as I never use that but not sure of the commands process to make it happen.
@@djlefave yes sirrr!! I'm tuned in every episode, I've been practicing for a few days and I'm really starting to get into DJing so I wanna soak up all the game your willing to give! I'd like to see u play a set and just kinda watch your transitions and stuff if you've got videos 😀
@@djlefave I’m running live stems. So basically I want to activate an echo when I cut the vocals. I know you can activate fx via a seperate knob but it would be nice to just press one button to activate an echo and cut the vocals so it tails out. On Serato it has this option as a one push button.
@@peterlazarenko3267 I think I'm understanding, but just want to clarify one thing before I record this video... In this scenario, do have just vocals playing on one deck and instrumental is on the other deck? (or at least the intro to the next track?) Or, are you wanting vocals to echo out on the same deck? I'm pretty sure its the first, but wanted to verify.
@@djlefave I have full track playing on deck one then I’m bringing in deck 2 with instrumental then I want to echo out vocals on deck one with one push of a button leaving instrumental playing while I transition to deck 2 where vocals will come in. If that makes sense. Thanks
Can you show a new command that’s not on your controller. Map a new button to something u basically just changed it to something else.. show a fresh start please..
@rrro869 oh, I see now. That's an app. I'm not sure. I am able to map a stream deck and a touch portal over midi, but touch portal now has a dedicated vdj plugin that makes controlling vdj from a mobile device super easy and extremely customisable and all it costs is $14 for the lifetime pro license.
Hiii I'm a mother to my 1 1/2 year old, and have been djing and learning software when my baby goes to sleep most nights and other free time! it has given me so much confidence in my abilities to learn, I always thought I was forever not going to be able to learn an instrument but after taking the time to learn all my daw and hardware/software I actually feel comfortable mixing 😭💖💯. Thank you for this video, I have a few pieces of hardware and have been using serato since I got my DDJ. I learned how to mix first on virtual dj and other free programs but this is a very powerful program, I did not know this at first and now they are stepping up their game. I appreciate the information sharing and the concrete info!! Much appreciated and thank you for the recognition da ladies❤ I just love this community a lot and feel very accepted wherever I go💖
Awesome! Keep practicing!!! And I'm always here if you have any questions.
Just recently switched from traktor. Learning VDJ. Want to use my F1 for stems and sample triggers. and of course the lights Can you please link to your page on how to setup triggers and I'm stoked. VDJ has changed how I DJ... Love it
Appreciate cha bro 👊Been using Serato for Decades and realize I've been missing out big time with Virtual DJ, especially since I can now record my DJ mixes in Stems (All decks and fx in separate wave files). Wow, will be a game changer for post editing / mastering
Most definitely a game changer. The transition will be tough! (it was for me) But it sounds like you already know what the reward will be!
@@djlefave Will for sure take some getting used to but spent a week on it already, now onto recording the first mix and fumble session lol
You're a legend for this. Thanks dude!!
Enjoy
I LOVE THIS VIDEOOOOOOOOOO! SUPER HELPFUL
How did you add a"Featured Playlist" in the description of this video? Cant find any info where to add that. Thanks in advance
I think it's just thr link to that playlist.
@@djlefave Yea but on desktop its a dedicated thumbnail in your description area and it also appears on the right column in suggested. Been trying to figure out how that's done or if TH-cam is experimenting with certain channels. I know all the tricks except that one lol
@DJ Naydee that makes Teo of us lol. I literally have no idea. Maybe i have it embedded in the video as like a card and it pulled it from there??? I literally have no game plan. I just record and post hahaha. I'm just lucky I seem to have more winners than lovers lately.
Ok....i just slid into your channel. Holy crap bro! I'd say you got it very much figured out lol.
@@djlefave hahah your like one of three channels I've ever seen with it.
LeFavious,
I need guidance to know how to add the Traktor S4 Mk3 console in Virtual DJ.
It's an extension
Hey my friend. Thanks for all your videos they're very helpful. Question, how can I echo out on tracks.
Fx
Thanks for the tip! I am having an issue where my pad is stuck in momentary mode so every time I release my finger from the pad the stem effect turns off. I tried to find settings to put it back in toggle mode but can't find it. Any idea how to fix this? Thank you!
My best tip is to run this question through chat gpt and tell it what controller you have and ask it to help you troubleshoot it. If it's a software issue, it could help. If it's hardware, well.....that's a different story.
My advice is to go into mapping and try using factory default first and see if you see the same issue. If you do, it's probably hardware. Simply remap one of your unused buttons that works and you could be good to go
Hi, hope U well, I've got ddj sb2, l can get stems on the four pads, however how do l get stem fx ,e.g vocal echo etc, because l only have four pads, thanks in advance.
Pad bank maybe? Look at the mapping for the denon prime go. It has only 4 buttons but has another button that accesses another 4 for the same buttons.
Thanks for a speedy reply, will have a look at it, thanks.
Love it!!! Making the lights show feedback would be awesome.
Well...since you were the first to ask and the process from what I understand is tailored for each controller, what controller would you like me to try to demonstrate with? (No promises....but I'd like to at least try to make it customized for ya if I can!)
@@djlefave You could do the Numark DJ to Go Touch or the same one you did in the original. Once I get the idea how it is done on that I can probably figure it out from there. Thanks!
@@tikipete8425 I shall try my best! Lol. Thanks for hanging out on my channel as well! Your teamwork makes this dream work!
Thanks a lot man! You're my brother now!
Right on!
LeFave! You are the man! Makin' every other Dj software obsolete!
I've got the next challenge for you sir!
Mapping Stems and Stem FX to the Samper section on the Traktor Kontrol S8!
I've got Stems mapped to the Sampler Volume Sliders (Group Vol, as its called in the Hardware Manual on the VDJ website, #29 of the layout)
It works beautifully, but the display does not show the volume of each stem...
I've got the FX buttons (#30) to turn on FX for each Stem, but the button doesn't light up when activated...
Aaaand, the Sampler FX Knobs (#31).. They do show that they are adjusting the parameters, but nothing actually happens... I'm pretty new to the scripts, but I'm totally lost here...
Loving your channel and your super positive attitude! Keep it coming!
First off, thanks so much for the kind words! I appreciate them very much!
There's two things that need to happen, and it sounds like you got the first down, which is remapping the MIDI keys inside of VDJ.
Unfortunately, the second part is a little bit more tricky and I have failed if/when I tried to do it. From what I understand, there is an XML mapping file associated with your controller inside of VDJ's documents. There are LED functions inside that XML that need to be updated to correspond with your script.
I have a Kontrol S4 and it notoriously never wants to cooperate with VDJ. I guess I'm saying that I feel your pain, and hope my quick tip on the XML file leads you down the path for your solution.
@@djlefave Wow, thanks for the quick response!
Ok, yeah, I figured it wouldn't be simple, ha.
I'll keep at it and come back here if I get good results.
For now I'll leave my Pioneer XP-2 connected and select the stems that I want to apply FX to from there. Although, having 48 pads is a little overkill, haha
Thanks I worked exactly as you showed it is there a way of adjusting the vocal as some Acappella vocals after separating the instruments sound very electronic and not natural is there a fix for this
Newer tracks will sound better than older tracks. You can assign it to your eq knobs and fine tune it. Or you can purchase a track with its stems which are already separated if quality is your goal.
I'm not sure how do eq Nob I'm using numark to go controller
@@MalBackTalkingTesla yeah, not available on that....
@@djlefave thank a As i
use my deck for radio broadcast I gone for the clean look as most of my stuff is just playing tracks the stem was very helpful to lift vocals and will be able to run Competition on the seperations
Really glad I found your channel as it so good be able to get so much great info thanks for all you do as much appreciated
amazing! thanks!
Good job, trying to map my old ddjwego2, any tips
Hi, i need help in making my performance pad work with stems. i am using numark mixtrack pro 2. Appreciate your help.
You found the video. Follow the steps. This is your help. If you have a specific question, you can ask and the community may help you out further.
@@djlefave
It works!!!! i guess all it needs is a space between pad and single colon.
another thing sir. Do you have any tweak settings for numark mixtrack pro 2 for performance use as well and for more convenient playing.
Hi DJ LeFave please is it possible to map with Vdj 8 also an old American Audio vms4 controller? I'm only interested in scroll playlist and load deck 1 and load deck 2 functions.
It looks like it is supported
www.virtualdj.com/manuals/hardware/americanaudio/vms4/installation.html
I didn't see browse features, but they could possibly be mapped. Try those installation instructions first then holler if it's not there and we'll get to scripting/mapping some buttons for ya!
@@djlefave Perfect, thank you
Helloy, I was wondering, can you help me my stamps do not work and I have a DDJ 800 controller can you show me how to get them to work with my controller?
That was the intention of this video. Did something not make sense?
WOW SO PERFECT 🥰🥰
some hardware like djm s11 or rane 72 mk2 are not able to have steams with virtual dj. Why?
Hardware controls software. If those controllers can be mapped to vdj, they can do stems. If they can't be mapped, then that's the only reason why. Vdj let's you teach old dogs new tricks
Man I am lost with these mappings... can't even assign the headphone cue button to each channel... have DDJ RZX... pls help
Pfl
All I did was just assigned stems to my slicer pad because I don't use it. Is this any different from that?
No different
what is the scratch settings for a ddj sb3 with virtual dj 2023?
Isn't scratching a skill, not a setting? I'm confused on your question.
i mean scratch mapping settings for a ddjsb3?
@@djlefave
can i get rid of music in the back ground of a documemntary just with virtual dj alone?
Perhaps not perfectly, but you can try. Should work
@@djlefave I only have a 32bit windows system
@eddiebhoy1973 best advice i can give is that It's free to download and free to try and free to install and free to Uninstall, so you're free to give it a go and see how it performs for you, right?
I have a question. when looping lets say hot cue 1, then go to hot cue 2 , sometimes ill go back to cue1 and the loop is gone. do you know a setting to keep that loop?
Are you using the Cue Loop function, or simply creating a manual loop at hotcue 1?
@@djlefave manual loop. hit cue and loop at the same time. i use serato but swapping back to vdj for video and this is stumping me. . serato video sucks!
@@bizzybdj I hear you man! That's one of the reasons I jumped from Serato. Did it right in the beginning of 2020, and it actually worked out well once we were all stuck at home lol. The video is great, but what I really love is the library. File/song management is, imo, much easier with VDJ.
To give you some advice on your question, though, I think you should check out the CUELOOP padpage. Basically, this will both set and store a cue and a loop anywhere in a track that you can jump to and fro.
If you want to have it as a manual two button smashing event, I'm sure there is a way to remap it, but out of the box this looks like it can do what you are looking for. Use the Pro Skin and then check the pad pages. You can even reassign the first 4 pages so that one includes the CUELOOP and then your controller instantly picks it up without any more mapping needed. That's what I have done with my DDJ-SZ...gave it some STEM control. Now all is right in the world.
So I can just change pad to knob and I can program a stem on a knob?
Probably
@LeFave thank you sir!
@@djodmatic209 did changing it to a knob work for you? I’m gonna try to take a look tmrw but just wanted to ask beforehand :)
@syntaxbeatbox the software will do anything you tell it to do. I recommend asking chat gpt for the solution. It apparently also know vdj scripting now lol
Well tries it but my virtual dj settings look different than what you're showing
Yeah they've updated the whole interface since this was made. The capability is still there.... but getting there now isn't as easy. I'm not sure fan of the 2024 remodel. Are you?
@LeFave I'm not a fan specially because it's asking for a stringer computer to keep using the updated stems so for now I'm using the older version before the update 2024
wow this was a cool Demo
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@@djlefave
So how would you isolate everything but the kick with one button?
Actually, that’s not what I want at all… I have a xdj-re and can access everything okay but I can’t access the stems from my deck, I have to click on them with the mouse… How do I change the beat jump button to show me the stems instead
It's pretty easy to do, especially if you don't use all of your pad pages currently. Do you or is there a free one?
Basically yoi just reassign one of those pad pages from what they are currently to the stems pad page and you're good to go! I'll try to cover that in tonight's live stream. I just did that exact same thing on my flx4
@@djlefave yeah I have free pages, I only use the hotcue and loops, I tried adding them to the last button “beat jump” as I never use that but not sure of the commands process to make it happen.
@@carlspicer4266 I'll make you a quick video on this, hopefully this morning.
@@djlefave You are an absolute legend, thank you!
Thanks Lefave!
I was hoping you'd see it! 👑👑👑👑
@@djlefave yes sirrr!! I'm tuned in every episode, I've been practicing for a few days and I'm really starting to get into DJing so I wanna soak up all the game your willing to give! I'd like to see u play a set and just kinda watch your transitions and stuff if you've got videos 😀
@K3lz777 lol no you dont....those who can't do, teach! Haha.
For real tho, I'm working on my craft every day bro. Keep on the grind!
nice.. imma do it
Which controller are you going to try it on?
@@djlefave Rane one, dj2go, and rev1
How would I add an echo out to stems vocals ?
Are you running stems on a track or as an fx?
@@djlefave I’m running live stems. So basically I want to activate an echo when I cut the vocals. I know you can activate fx via a seperate knob but it would be nice to just press one button to activate an echo and cut the vocals so it tails out. On Serato it has this option as a one push button.
@@peterlazarenko3267 I think I'm understanding, but just want to clarify one thing before I record this video...
In this scenario, do have just vocals playing on one deck and instrumental is on the other deck? (or at least the intro to the next track?)
Or, are you wanting vocals to echo out on the same deck?
I'm pretty sure its the first, but wanted to verify.
@@djlefave I have full track playing on deck one then I’m bringing in deck 2 with instrumental then I want to echo out vocals on deck one with one push of a button leaving instrumental playing while I transition to deck 2 where vocals will come in. If that makes sense. Thanks
@@peterlazarenko3267
I got you!
th-cam.com/video/330VQFk6Nes/w-d-xo.html
Can you show a new command that’s not on your controller. Map a new button to something u basically just changed it to something else.. show a fresh start please..
salute
🪖
Helloooo
Could I do this with koala sampler
Not sure. The best way to see is if you go into mapping, push a button on your koala then see if it registers
@@djlefave was actually tryin to mapping virtual dj and koala sampler
@rrro869 oh, I see now. That's an app. I'm not sure. I am able to map a stream deck and a touch portal over midi, but touch portal now has a dedicated vdj plugin that makes controlling vdj from a mobile device super easy and extremely customisable and all it costs is $14 for the lifetime pro license.