Hercules Starlight Midi Mapping

A few weeks ago I bought the Hercules Starlight Midi controller because … of reasons and due to the fact that I started playing music on M-Audio’s infamous Torq DVS I have some leftover-habits of how I want my software / controller to react. That’s why it was ab-so-lute-ly necessary to create a customized MIDI mapping for using Traktor. By the way, did I ever tell you? When Torq 2 came out I was one of the alpha-testers. Thank me for Torq 2.x not crashing when using a MIDI device that presents itself with an umlaut. (I guess the NDA is more than obsolete since Torq is no more for a long time already).

Creating this mapping I didn’t start from scratch but based my work on an already existing one. As far as I remember it was this one but don’t quote me on that. However, big thanks to DJ Roberts over at the DJTechTools forum.

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Hercules Starlight Browse Wheel

Am Ende des vorherigen Posts zum vierten Bauabschnitt des neuen Midi-Controllers hatte ich ja bereits durchblicken lassen, dass ich mir aus lauter Verzweiflung einen neuen Midi-Controller bestellt hatte, um wenigstens ir-gend-etwas funktionierendes mit ‘Midi’ in der Hand zu haben. Das ist der Starlight Controller von Hercules.

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