Vestax VCI 400 Mixxx MIDI Controller Mapping

A MIDI mapping for the Vestax-VCI 400 DJ controller. In contrast to the default setting, this controller has more mappings for loop control (loop in/out buttons, adjustable loop sizes), a reworked transport knob and controls for setting the beatgrid.

The mapping uses the Mixxx 2.0 MIDI mapping controls.

Controls

The main controls are identical to the default mapping, identical to what the buttons are labeled for. This means the central controls for individual channels: loading and syncing tracks, fading in and out, the filter knob and the individual low/mid/high filters etc.

The other buttons are described below. All 4 decks can be controlled with the deck select switch. If the alternate (C/D) deck is selected, all individual deck buttons are controlling the alternate deck (transport and loop controls, play and pause).

• 1: Play/Pause button
• 2: Cue Button

Pink/Purple: Loop Controls

• 3: loop in
• 4: loop out
• 5: activate loop
• 6: deactivate loop
• 7
  • rotate: move loop region
  • press + rotate: halve/double loop region size
  • shift + rotate: adjust loop region size by 1

Blue: Transport Controls

• 8: Cue buttons 1 to 8.
  • shift + press: delete cue point
• 9
  • rotate: move cursor through track
  • shift + rotate: change stepsize

Turquise & Green: Effects

• 10
  • knob: effect chain crossfade
  • button: activate/deactivate on master
• 11
  • knob: reverb strength
  • button: activate/deactivate reverb
• 12
  • knob 1: echo feedback strength
  • button 1: activate/deactivate echo
  • knob 2: echo delay time
  • button 2: ping-pong on/off

Gold

• 13
  • rotate: select track in library
  • click: load track into next free deck
  • shift + click: switch to playlist selection
    • rotate: switch through playlists
    • click: focus back on track selection in playlist
• 14: select waveform zoom
• 15:
  • top buttons: set beatgrid to cursor (left/right deck)
  • bottom buttons: sync beatgrid to other deck (left/right deck)

Installation

Drop the files Vestax-VCI-400_alternative-scripts.js and Vestax-VCI-400_alternative.midi.xml in your controller script directory. On linux this is ~/.mixxx/controllers.

Effects Setup

The effect controls are mapped to specific effects. In the second effects rack the first effect should be Reverb and the second should be Echo.