I've got one of these units as well , Traktor F1 , four faders , lots of pads and colors etc , its pretty well made and with Traktor of course it's quite intuitive and flexible , bought a template from midi monsters to do some remixing and stuff , it's fun to play with , can be handy with a laptop and Traktor to serve as event music , awards show stuff , gala events , I used to do a lot of AV , it was handy .
I use mine mainly now with Gig Performer 4 , a handy way to adjust a few items on the fly , tweak this and that , change presets .
The Controller Editor you mention is of course required at all times to activate it and load templates , which are really just note on off , and or CC values , toggle , gate , one shot sort of things .
It has two layers basic and shift so of course you can get a lot of traction out of it , however .
How are you able to recall what goes where with pure mental recall ? The same old song and dance for me : get into it , spend hours programming moves and get somewhere , leave it for a week or three and return to it scratching your head , what did I do here again? I make pdf's in Mac Preview to help recall colours and mapped items etc , but you can only hold so much in the ol' buffer. Gotta keep it simple , just a few for this and that . You could use the CSI plugin to map it to any Reaper action etc , and the FB state with colors all that , but it's likely faster just associating plain old midi with action command id's , simple and direct, just my two cents.
Cheers
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