Tutorials
The rest of this manual is organized by subject: one chapter per window, one page per setting. That is the right shape when you know what you're looking for and the wrong shape when you're starting out. These tutorials are the other shape — each one is a single sequence you follow start to finish, with the buttons named as you reach them.
Work through them in order the first time. Each one assumes the previous one is done.
The arc
| # | Tutorial | What you end up with |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Setup | Fusor Studio talking to your DJ app, deck pair chosen, control state captured |
| 2 | Playback in Demo | A fusor loaded and run from start to finish, unlicensed |
| 3 | Activate your license | The full Player and fusor authoring unlocked |
| 4 | Your first transition | The same fusor run twice — once in Manual Run Mode, once in Auto |
| 5 | Actions and Pad Mode | An action you wrote sitting on a pad, fired in one press |
| 6 | Author your first fusor | A channel-fader crossfade you built from an empty file |
| 7 | Author your first action | A timed bass kill you built from nothing |
| 8 | Bypass the crossfader, and put it back | A pair of actions that remembers your crossfader assignment and restores it |
| 9 | Build a constant-power crossfade | A fusor and its actions, built together in three runs |
The first four are about running automation. Tutorial 5 sits across both, since you write a very short action in order to have something to put on a pad, and the last four are about making it. If you only ever want to play other people's fusors and fire the odd command, you can stop after tutorial 5.
Tutorials 8 and 9 are a pair: 8 builds two actions, and 9 puts them to work inside a fusor it builds alongside them. Tutorial 8 needs no licence — action authoring is unlicensed, so it is the one piece of real authoring you can do before you buy. Tutorial 9 is the only one that does need one.
Before you start
You need three things, and only the first is Fusor Studio's problem:
- A virtual MIDI bus. Fusor Studio talks to your DJ app over MIDI, and on Windows that means a virtual bus sitting between them. Tutorial 1 covers it, and Installation is the full reference.
- A DJ app with a Fusor MIDI mapping loaded. Traktor Pro and Mixxx are supported; djay Pro and Virtual DJ are in progress. These tutorials use Traktor for their examples — see Traktor Pro Setup.
- Two tracks loaded on two decks. Fusor Studio automates a transition between two decks. It never loads or starts them for you.
If you'd rather understand the model before touching anything, read How It Works first. It's four minutes and it makes the vocabulary in these tutorials land properly.
Where to go instead
- To look up one control rather than follow a sequence, go to the Manual.
- To decode a status-line code such as
CAP5orGATE2, go to Status Messages. - If something is already broken, go to Troubleshooting.