question about controller map settings and pad pages

[Acer B-T]

Hi,

I ended up getting the party mix 2 successfully set up with virtual dj, and I had a lot of fun getting to grips with it and playing some favorites for practice. However, at some point, I had used the keyboard commands to quickly aset the pad pages, using control alt shift and the numbers. This inadvertently caused my controller's pad cycle modes to be wrong, and I could not find a way to revert them. Is there a way to do this without reverting the settings.xml file to a backup state? I know there's a custom map for the original party mix on the collection of files in onedrive, but not one for the party mix2. Also on the topic of settings, when I reverted the settings to the backup and had to log back in again with virtual dj 8, I discovered that virtual dj 8 crashes when attempting to exit, but only if the party mix 2 is connected, so I have to perform login and any settings changes with the controller disconnected if using version 8.1.

[Zenek]

Don't restore the entire settings.xml file. Edit it in Notepad and find the line that controls the displayed pads. There's also a line about the pads being independent on the skin and controller. Try changing that to Yes. Regards.

[Zenek]

Here you can read about the options contained in settings.xml and those that can be changed via
Mallmuzik/settings/VDJ options
https://www.virtualdj.com/manuals/virtualdj/appendix/optionslist.html

czwartek, 28 sierpnia 2025 o 20:49:11 UTC+2 jac...@gmail.com napisał(a):

[Acer B-T]

Hi,

I have tried making the pads in the skin independent, however, this causes a couple things to happen. When skin pads are independent of the controller, the controller pad modes no longer speak. Another side effect of this is that using pad mode on the number row, It's not possible to change pad pages
 using control plus and control minus, and alt plus and alt minus. Is there any way to get around this? I'd ideally like to be in a position where I can't mess up the pad mode mappings of my party mix 2 controller but still be able to access all the pad pages from my keyboard, since the controller only has 4 pads per deck.

[Zenek]

1. Are you sure you're switching the keyboard to pad mode
Shift+w and then pressing
Ctrl+= or Ctrl+-, not in the numeric keypad?
2. Can you use the quick pad pages on the keyboard? You can choose the order of the pads assigned to the numbers in the numeric row by setting them in mallmuzik. I hope this will retain the original pad pages on the controller.

[Acer B-T]

Hi,

Yes, when I use pad mode on the number row, even with the skin pads set to independent, all the number keys work, but moving between pad pages with control or alt plus dash and equals does not. Also, if the pads are not independent from the skin, which is what allows the controller pad modes to speak when changed, using any of the quick shortcuts to access a given page on both decks changes the pad pages in the controller map, while also allowing the control or alt with dash and equals commands to work. This was the whole reason I had to revert my settings file about a week ago, since I had unintentionally used one of the quick shortcuts on every page of my controllers pad banks, so it messed that up to the point where I could no longer access pml cues, pml loop, pml sampler, and pml effects from my controller on either deck. Those are the default pad pages for that controller, though I believe I'm missing out on some configuration of those default banks because it requires accesing controls in the skin.

[Zenek]

I'm reading the factory mapping of your controller and I can already see how the pad pages are mapped.
I'll try to explain why you had this behavior when changing pages to other than the factory ones on the controller.
Just imagine folders and files in Windows. Folders are named with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4... files are named with the letters A, B, C, D...
The pad pages are also divided into "pad page 1", "pad page 2"... and "pad page sampler" and "pad page loop." When loading pad page 1, the pad page "something" must also be loaded.
You can change which page will load for pad page 1.
You can set all the numbers from pad page 1 to pad page 4 to the same pad page.

The factory mapping says
1. Cue
2. Loop
3. Sampler
4. Effect
Therefore, you can try changing the mapping by entering the names of your desired pages instead of a number. Then, the pages with the specified names should load.
The modified script should look something like this:
<map value="CUES_MODE" action="pad_page 'pml cues'" />
<map value="LOOP_MODE" action="pad_page 'pml loop'" />
<map value="SAMPLER_MODE" action="pad_page 'pml sampler'" />
<map value="EFFECT_MODE" action="pad_page 'pml effects'" />
You can find the exact names of the pad pages in the settings.xml file somewhere in the line with the most recently loaded pad pages.
I assume PML stands for party mix l? But you can use the regular Cue, Loop, Sampler, Effect pages.

One last thing, you can go to mallmuzik/tools/external controllers/edit mapping and import the file for your controller there, then check the F1 help.
Also, check if you haven't added:

'P' to change the default pad page switches to quick pad page selection mode, or return to the default pad page switches.
If you've added quick pad page selection, try removing this switch.
Press "p" in the mapping editor and confirm the switch removal.
Keep a copy of the factory mapping, and if you have any problems, don't reinstall VDJ. Simply overwrite the controller mapping file in the VirtualDJ/mappers or custom mappers folder, or preferably in both locations. ;)
Below is the factory mapping file; I hope it helps.

[Acer B-T]

Hi,

What's the easiest way to download an xml attachment from one of these posts? When i click the download link, the file opens in my browser instead of downloading, and trying to access the context menu for the download link does not work. This can be ok if the browser sees the file as not having errors, but it won't work with every file.

[Zenek]

If a preview of the file opens, press Ctrl+S and it should save without any errors.
To be sure, you can also download it from Mallmuzik/help/file repository.

Best regards