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Overview

As someone who learned how to mix entirely on CDs, making the switch to digital has always felt somewhat like a step backward since most modern DJ software goes out of its way to emulate turntable scrubbing, yet support for stutter-cueing is effectively nonexistent.

In fact, there's countless feature requests on the VirtualDJ forums asking when stutter-cueing will be added. It's unfortunate that there's so little effort to accommodate DJs that came out of the CD-era. Some of us are just more familiar working with that technology, rather than turntables.

• VirtualDJ - Is there a plugin to do framer/stutter cueing
• VirtualDJ - Frame search / cueing like on CD players
• VirtualDJ - Frame/cdj cuing for virtualdj
• VirtualDJ - CDJ Frame Cueing
• VirtualDJ - Vinyl Mode and CDJ Mode like on the Pioneers CDJ-1000’s
• VirtualDJ - Stutter/Frame Cueing in Virtual DJ
• VirtualDJ - CD Jog won't work. It still sounds like vinyl
• VirtualDJ - CD frame cueing
• VirtualDJ - Frame/Stutter Cueing should be added
• VirtualDJ - Frame Cueing per Jogwheel?

So, I took on the challenge myself and put together a custom mapper for the Numark NDX500 that closely mimics the functionality of classic dual deck CD players (i.e. Denon, Numark, and Stanton), in particular frame-seeking and stutter-cueing within VirtualDJ.

If you have any questions or discover any bugs, please contact me at projects@bitwax.org

Source Code License: MIT License
Software Requirements: VirtualDJ 8.2+

Quick Start

Simply copy the mapper definition into your Documents/VirtualDJ/Mappers directory. Then open VirtualDJ and select the mapper in your controller settings.

• Press Play to pause or resume playback. Unlike most other mappers, simply pausing the track, will NOT reset the cuepoint.
• Press Cue to jump back to the cuepoint and pause playback, or hold Cue to briefly preview the track from the cuepoint.
• Press Tap to set the cupoint and simultaneously pause the track during playback. Press Reloop or Play to resume playback.
• Hold Tap to enable frame-cueing, which will pause and stutter the track to aid in moving the cuepoint to the desired frame.
• During frame-cueing, either the jog wheel or the track-selection knob can be used to seek through the track frame-by-frame.
• Turntable braking is possible by pressing Play while holding Brake. Use the track-selection knob to adjust the braking speed.
• Engage any one of the three effects banks by pressing Loop In, Loop Out, or Reloop (for banks 1 through 3) accordingly.
• Adjust the primary effect parameter by rotating the jogwheel. The LCD display will show the parameter value (in percent).
• In Program Mode, use the pitch-bend buttons to scan through the track during playback (+ for fast-forward or - for rewind).
• In Program Mode, setup a loop by pressing Loop In for the start and Loop Out for the end. Exit the loop by pressing Loop Out.
• In Program Mode, press Loop In to set the cuepoint on-the-fly. Press Reloop to bop back to the cuepoint (similar to hot cues).

The only buttons that reset the cuepoint are Tap, Loop In, and the hotcues. All other functions such as scratching, braking, reversing, scanning, pausing, etc. preserve the cupoint.