Hey everyone, thanks for helping me tackle this. Chad- could you explain more in depth how the cdj400's would operate differently if they were connected with the RCA cables? And perhaps I am mistaken in that I am using Native mode. I am under the impression Native mode means that my cdj's are connected to my computer and serato via usb only and are communicating through HID, midi. Is this correct? Also when you say to connect the RCA cables do you mean in conjunction with the usb or by themselves? And if by themselves does this mean I would use the timecode cds? Thanks for your help.
VJ justin- I'm not entirely sure what you mean but here's what I can tell you: everything is working properly (jog wheel, preassigned buttons, etc) with my cdj400's and serato via the usb connections. However, my problem is that I used to only have one cdj400 and I would hook it up to serato via usb. I would then open the midi assign parameter in serato and midi map the 3 unused effects buttons on the cdj (bubble, trans, wah) to control cue points 1, 2, 3 on the virtual deck I had the cdj assigned to. Yesterday I finally got a second cdj400. I was expecting to be able to hook them both up via usb and map the unused effects buttons to control the cue points of their respective decks. However, this is where I ran into trouble. The midi notes of the effects buttons (35, 36, & 37 on channel 1) are the same on both cdj400's. Therefore, regardless of if I hit the effect button on the left cdj or the right, serato only sees 3 possible notes and it doesn't know which deck they are coming from. Having worked a bit with midi before in other programs, the simple solution was to change the midi channel of one controllers to something other than channel 1. Then the identical midi notes from each controller would not conflict. Can this be done with the cdj400s in serato? Are there other solutions?
Thanks again Chad and VJ Justin.