Was it ever mentioned if you can plug in a USB keyboard for faster searching? I know in the older players you were able to plug in a keyboard, would be a lot faster then using a touch screen
This could be a nice feature have in there.
I think they said you can, yes. That said, the keyboard on the screen is pretty big and useful.
Cool. Side keyboard per deck would probably be cumbersome to use, but its a good to have if you want it.
Donāt know any details, so no idea if you could use it over the link feature or anything. Those cute little mini-keyboards work well too though. Had a Numark D2Director back in the day and used one with that. Something like this: http://www.ergocanada.com/detailed_specification_pages/solidtek_super_compact_mini_keyboard.html which is less than 9" wide.
they can do 1 keyboard to control both decks like how they share a USB drive. a keyboard shortcut could be hit to type for deck 1 or deck 2
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Cheers m8. Helpful info.
being i canāt seem to edit, i wanted to say that this is an assumption of how they can do it, not saying its a feature already
It was asked, some time ago - and the answer given (then) was no, you canāt plug in a keyboard.
A shame because bringing up the on screen one obviously covers up a lot of the info.
Hope they can implementā¦ suggested before in feature request topic:
I tried to hook up a ps2 keyboard, and yes that works, you can type in searches does anybody have a keyboard shortcut list?
ps2 to usb converter works? thats awesome
Whilst it appears to āworkā, the use of an external keyboard is not a supported feature.
So, if you choose to plug in an external keyboard and type on it etc thatās your choice to do so, however, if you get any unexpected behaviourā¦
Thanks for trying and sharing though.
hmmm, unexpected behavior? Last night iāve got a database corruption, could that keyboard be the cause of that?
As any external keyboard iisnt a supported item, and there are so many usb keyboards with so many custom buttons on them, I would imagine that āanything is possibleā
However, Iād be more likely to think of unexpected behaviour to be things likeā¦ this completely ficticious scenario "when I was trying to type a letter F, I accidentally caught the letter G next to it at the same time and the track stopped playing
What a USB keyboards āCustomā buttons (e.g.: Keys which are not shown on the on-screen keyboard) may do thoughā¦ could be less than predictable.
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This COULD be an idea for the keyboard shortcuts.
So to be clear, this is a not an active list, but a SUGGESTION!
TEXT ENTRY Used in the text entry āwidgetā; when searching and during renaming playlists etc.
(When not editing) ā¢ Return = starts editing
(When editing) ā¢ Cursor left / right = move caret ā¢ Return / Enter = DONE and move focus to next field ā¢ Escape = DONE but leave focus on this widget ā¢ Home / End = beginning / end of string ā¢ Backspace = Delete backwards ā¢ Delete = Delete forwards ā¢ Caps-lock and number-lock are honoured
LISTS Used when browsing the library ā¢ Up = Same as rotating PUSH SELECT knob anti-clockwise ā¢ Down = Same as rotating PUSH SELECT knob rotary clockwise ā¢ Left = Same as pushing BACK ā¢ Right = Same as pushing FWD ā¢ Return = Select/Load (same as PUSH SELECT press) ā¢ Page up / down = Page up / down ā¢ Ctrl-Page up / down = Top / bottom of list ā¢ Escape = go back up one level
SLIDER ā¢ Left (or) Up = Move slider left ā¢ Right (or) Down = Move slider right ā¢ Ctrl-left / right / up / down = Move to beginning / end of slider
GENERAL ā¢ Tab = move focus to next field ā¢ Shift-tab = move focus to previous field
GENERAL SHORTCUTS ā¢ Ctrl + C = Goes to ShortCuts window ā¢ Ctrl + E = Goes to Eject media window ā¢ Ctrl + F = Goes to search ALL for the current library, similar to pressing F1 ā¢ Ctrl + H = Goes to History window ā¢ Ctrl + L = Goes to Library view (last position used of crates, playlist, prepare, files or search from anywhere in the user interface) ā¢ Ctrl + P = Goes to Prepare folder window ā¢ Ctrl + S = Goes to Source window ā¢ Ctrl + U = Goes to Utility / Preferences ā¢ Ctrl + V = Switch between the library view and track view ā¢ Ctrl + + = Zoom in Waveform ā¢ Ctrl + - = Zoom out Waveform ā¢ ALT + TAB = Switch Layer
ā¢ Escape - Cancel any popup windows
ā¢ F1 = Open search browser for current library, set to āAllā and put keyboard focus in the text entry widget ā¢ F2 = begins a āTitleā search ā¢ F3 = begins an āAlbumā search ā¢ F4 = begins an āArtistā search ā¢ F5 = Browse library by Genre ā¢ F6 = Browse library by BPM (with analyzed tracks) ā¢ F7 = Browse library by Year ā¢ F8 = Crates menu ā¢ F9 = Playlist menu ā¢ F10 = Prepare menu ā¢ F11 = Files (File browse the device directly) ā¢ F12 = Library (press again to change to next library, if available)
And maybe when possible over network to use 1 keyboard for multiple SC5000ās: ā¢ Ctrl + 1 = Player no. 1 responds to keyboard ā¢ Ctrl + 2 = Player no. 2 responds to keyboard ā¢ Ctrl + 3 = Player no. 3 responds to keyboard ā¢ Ctrl + 4 = Player no. 4 responds to keyboard
So I hooked up a regular rDell USB keyboard and it works great, Here are some of the shortcuts I have found
s=sync on 0-sets track to -100 and stops F7 - loads previous track E - eject esc - escapes screen L - layer switching X - ejects track from deck, wish the player could do this without the keyboard plugged in N - next track M - takes the left side of the screens icons for playlist, search, etcā¦ and moves it to the right side spacebar - play/pause
SHIFT does nothing so all commands are in lower case
And >BANG< thatās why I wouldnāt have a USB keyboard connected to each of my players.
Thereād be me thinking I was pressing space, or any key along the bottom row z x c v b n m and catch the space bar accidentally in a search, and ā¦ the music that everyoneās dancing to ā¦ Stops.
the spacebar in a search doesnāt start/stop the track, that would be silly, it only stops it if you are in waveform view with the track playing
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