Pioneer Ddj Controllers

Pioneer DDJ Controllers

This page describes the Pioneer DDJ controllers support in MIXXX.

MIXXX DDJ support

Built-in support

• pioneer_ddj-400
• pioneer_ddj-rb
• pioneer_ddj-sb
• pioneer_ddj-sb2
• pioneer_ddj-sb3
• pioneer_ddj-sx
• pioneer_ddj-wego
• ddj-sx2

Complete list: github code

User contributed mappings

• DDJ-1000:
• mapping: https://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13346
• technical info: ddj-1000
• DDJ-800: https://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13367
• DDJ-400: https://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12113
• DDJ-200: https://www.mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13160

Generic DDJ Technical info

DDJ-1000 vs DDJ-1000SRT

Note that the 1000SRT has technical differences fom the original 1000. Similar story for the 800 vs 10000.

	Jog Screens		PionnerFX
	MIDI	HID
DDJ-1000	yes	yes	Only BeatFX Master
DDJ-1000SRT	no	yes	Any inputs
DDJ-800	FW bug	yes	Unk

more info: https://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/ddj-1000#pioneer_hardware_effects

DDJ pad colors

• 0: off
• 1: blue
• 7: cyan
• 12: cyan-blue
• 17: green
• 22: dark green
• 25: green
• 27: yellow-green
• 29: yellow
• 31: yellow
• 33: yellow
• 36: orange
• 38: orange
• 40: orange-red
• 41: red
• 42: red
• 52: pink
• 57: pink dark
• 60: pink-blue
• 62: blue
• 63: off
• 64: white

* 
* >65: default    color for that mode

DDJ midi codes

List of all Pioneer MIDI codes:https://github.com/pestrela/music/tree/master/ddj/1%20MIDI%20codes

Inside the same family, the DDJ controllers are mostly compatible.

Differences are:

1. Buttons added: these get a new MIDI code
2. Buttons moved around: The maitain the same midi code unless the feature is slightly different
3. Buttons removed: if needed these can be emulated using additional shift layers on the software side (because the hardware shift layer is tipically already busy).

Serato Family

• All "S" controllers (SB, SX, SX2, SZ ...)
• All "R" controllers (RB, RX, ...)
• DDJ-1000SRT

Rekordbox-only Family

• DDJ-1000
• DDJ-800
• etc

XDJ family

• XDJ-XZ
• XDJ-RX2
• etc

DDJ Channels overview

	Serato	RB-only	XDJ
Mixer	1..4	1..4	5
Effect	5+6	5 only	5
Browser, Global	7	7	1
Jog Display	NA	1..4	12
Pad regular	8,9,10,11	8,10,12,14	6..9
Pad shift	same	9,11,13,15	same
Pad sub pages	no	yes	no

the different DDJs can be emulated to use a single mapping. This requires converting both input and output messages.

In this traktor example, DDJ-SZ midi messages are converted to DDJ-1000 messages, and then feed to the DDJ-1000 mapping.

In this other traktor example, the whole mapping was ported as a one-off to the XDJ-XZ.