Tutorials
The tutorials come in two sections:
- Player Tutorials run transitions: loading a fusor, running it by hand and on the clock, mix points, effects, actions and stems.
- Authoring Tutorials build your own actions and fusors.
Each tutorial builds on the ones before it, so work through them in order. Player Tutorials come first.
The tutorials assume a licensed copy of Fusor Studio. If you don't own a license, a Free Trial gives you the full application for 14 days. The 14 days start when you claim the trial, so claim it when you have time to work through the sequence. The first tutorial, Setup, gets Fusor Studio working with your DJ app, and ends with the steps to activate the trial.
The tutorials are a sequence of runs
Every Player Tutorial after Setup uses one named fusor, in numbered runs. You load the fusor, read what it is going to do, run it, and then read what just happened.
Each tutorial's Before you start names what it assumes, and that is the state the tutorial before it left your rig in. Channel Fader puts your crossfader into bypass, and it stays there for the rest of the sequence.
The fusors are in the Tutorials collection, and the actions the Player Tutorials fire are in the Tutorials pack. Both are example files, downloaded from fusorstudio.com during Setup.
Player Tutorials
| # | Tutorial | The run, and what it adds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Setup | Fusor Studio communicating with your DJ app, deck pair chosen, the example files installed, control state captured, and a Free Trial activated |
| 2 | Channel Fader | By hand. The player window, Session View and preflight; the crossfader into bypass; a transition run on your crossfader, then back the other way; the 1 / 2 switch that picks the fade curve; the three mix points as three fade shapes |
| 3 | EQ Swap | By hand. A second domain, a control taken back mid-run, End of run, and what happens when a control is not at its curve's starting value |
| 4 | Auto Run Mode | On the clock. Length, Abort, pausing, a domain switched off, the tempo ramp, and an Auto run taken over by hand |
| 5 | Drop In | A Start mix point, and a transition that starts itself when the incoming deck does |
| 6 | Drift | FX routing, a stepped lane, and a Middle mix point |
| 7 | Actions and Pad Mode | What an action is, and the Tutorials pack fired from the pads |
| 8 | Wash Out | A fusor that runs its own actions, an effect tail, and Mixed Run Mode |
| 9 | Vocal Sustain | Five cards on the stems, run by hand with two holds |
| 10 | When Something Goes Wrong | Common failures, induced on purpose |
| 11 | Drive Fusor From a Controller (optional) | Arm, play, Pad Mode and the pads on physical buttons |
From Auto Run Mode on, every run works by hand or on the clock.
Drive Fusor From a Controller needs a hardware controller with spare buttons that you can map to the Fusor player. Skip it if you have none; the Hardware Controller reference covers the same ground.
Authoring Tutorials
Author Your First Action and Bypass the Crossfader, and Put It Back build actions, and work in Fusor Studio Lite. The rest change fusors or step sets and need a license. See Licensing.
| # | Tutorial | What you build |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Author Your First Action | A timed bass kill in the Step Editor, and a pack of your own to fire it from |
| 2 | Bypass the Crossfader, and Put It Back | Copies of the example crossfader bypass pair that remember your crossfader assignment and restore it |
| 3 | Change a Curve and Run It Again | The curve editor on a shipped fusor, and the edit saved |
| 4 | Build a Step Set | A step set of your own in the Step Sets window, attached to a lane and kept |
| 5 | Author Your First Fusor | A crossfade built from an empty draft, and saved |
| 6 | Build a Constant-Power Crossfade | A fusor and its actions, built together in two runs |
| 7 | Import a Domain | A Channel Fader fusor given an EQ swap imported from another fusor |
Before you start
The tutorials assume you are an experienced DJ. They teach Fusor Studio. Beatmatching, phrasing and choosing which tracks to mix are taken as known.
Fusor Studio changes tempo only through the Tempo Ramp, which syncs the incoming deck and changes both decks' tempo, or through an action in the fusor written to do so. Beatmatching and tempo are otherwise yours to set.
You need Fusor Studio installed and the Fusor mapping file imported into your DJ app. See Installation and Connect Your DJ App. Setup creates the virtual MIDI bus and connects the two applications.
These tutorials use Traktor for their examples. See Traktor Pro Setup. For other DJ applications, see our Roadmap.
Each tutorial names the tracks it needs.
You drive Fusor Studio with a mouse and your DJ app with your controller. Every step in Fusor Studio is written as a click, and some of them are right-clicks. Steps in your DJ app name the control to move, and your controller is where you move it. Drive Fusor From a Controller puts the Fusor player itself on a controller; see also Hardware Controller.
If you'd rather understand the model before touching anything, read How It Works first.
Where to go instead
- To look up one control, 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.