An application to trigger MIDI events when CDJs start playing tracks, reach particular beats, or whatever else you can think of. Built using beat-link.
Download the latest executable beat-link-trigger.jar file from the
releases
page and double-click it to run it. If that doesn’t work,
see below.
beat-link-trigger requires Java 7 or later. It is compiled and tested using the latest release of Java 8, so that is your best bet.
A trigger window will open, in which you can choose the players you want to watch, the kind of MIDI message to send when they start and stop, and when the triggers are enabled:
Please see the user guide for an introduction in how to configure triggers, and hopefully you will soon be coming up with interesting integration projects of your own.
This is in no way a sanctioned implementation of the protocols. It should be clear, but:
⚠️ Use at your own risk! For example, there are reports that the XDJ-RX crashes when a related project starts, so don't use this with one on your network unless we can figure that out.
While these techniques appear to work for us so far, there are many gaps in our knowledge, and things could change at any time with new releases of hardware or even firmware updates from Pioneer.
You should also not expect to be able to run Beat Link Trigger, or any project like it, on the same machine that you are running rekordbox, because they will compete over access to network ports.
Beat Link Trigger seems to work great with CDJ-2000 Nexus gear, and works fairly well (with less information available) with older CDJ-2000s. It has also been reported to work with XDJ-1000 gear. If you can try it with anything else, please let us know what you learn in the Gitter chat room, or if you have worked out actionable details about something that could be improved, open an Issue or submit a pull request so we can all improve our understanding together.
If something isn't working with your hardware and you don't yet know the details why, but are willing to learn a little and help figure it out, look at the dysentery project, which is where we are organizing the research tools and results which made programs like Beat Link Trigger possible.
If double-clicking doesn’t open up the application, make sure you have a recent Java runtime environment installed, and try running it from the command line:
java -jar beat-link-trigger.jar
If that does not work, at least you will be able to see a detailed report of what went wrong, which can help you troubleshoot the issue.
If you are on a Mac, the first time you try to launch the downloaded jar file by double-clicking it you will see an error like this because it is not a Mac-specific application:
You can fix that by control-clicking on the Jar and choosing “Open” at the top of the contextual menu that pops up. You will be asked to confirm that you really want to run it. Click the “Open” button in that confirmation dialog, and from then on, you will be able to run that copy by just double-clicking it.
Someday we may release a Mac-specific bundle of the application, perhaps even through the Mac App Store, which will avoid the need to take this step. But that will be a much larger download because it will have to bundle its own copy of the entire Java environment. In the mean time, at least you only need to do this once for each new release you download.
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Distributed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0, the same as Clojure. By using this software in any fashion, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this license. You must not remove this notice, or any other, from this software.