VirtualDJ jog wheel settings customization tutorial. If your jog wheel doesn’t function properly or you’re using an old DJ controller with janky mechanical jog wheels, at some point you may have wondered how to modify jog wheel sensitivity in your DJ software. In VirtualDJ this is a matter of a few simple steps. I’ll quickly show you where the VDJ jog wheel settings are and how to customize them to your liking.
The option to regulate your jog wheel sensitivity is located right in the main VirtualDJ settings window. Here is how to access it.
If you’re not sure what type of platter your controller actually uses, I’ve explained the main DJ jog wheel types here: Jog Wheel Types Explained – DJ Equipment Guide
How To Set Jog Wheel Sensitivity In VirtualDJ?
First, go into VirtualDJ settings menu by pressing the little cog button in the top right corner of your screen.
Then, go to the Options tab on the left side of the window and start typing “jog” into the search bar.
After that you should be presented with a few options that have to do with the way the software interprets the jog wheel movements on your DJ controller. The main option we’re interested in here is “jogSensitivityScratch”, which is set to 1.0 by default.
This value works as a multiplier for jog wheel movement. Increasing it makes a given physical movement of the jog wheel move the track farther in the software, while decreasing it makes the same jog wheel movement move the track less.
Keep in mind that this doesn’t change the physical touch sensitivity of a capacitive jog wheel – it changes how VirtualDJ translates the jog wheel’s movement.
If you make this number smaller, you will decrease the jog wheel sensitivity which will cause slower movements of your track when the jog wheel is moved.
Keep in mind that for now, you cannot set the sensitivity of each jog wheel separately.
Feel free to experiment with different configurations, as you can always safely go back to the default value which is 1.0.
Other jog wheel control settings in VirtualDJ
Jog wheel settings available in VirtualDJ are:
- touchWheelSpinThreshold – sets the minimum jog wheel speed required when you release the wheel for VirtualDJ to continue a backspin or forward spin.
- jogSensitivityScratch – controls how strongly jog wheel movement affects the track while scratching.
- jogSensitivityCue – controls jog wheel sensitivity while cueing a paused track.
- jogSensitivityBend – controls jog wheel sensitivity while pitch bending, typically when moving the platter without engaging its scratch/touch function.
- jogVibrationProtection – can help if vibration or unwanted jog wheel input causes a paused track to move on its own.
Once again, currently there is no way to use different settings on each jog wheel separately. All of the parameters that VirtualDJ lets you modify affect both jog wheels on your DJ controller.
Feel free to play around with these options to achieve your desired result. In case you forgot what were the parameters you started from, here we list the default values you can always come back to:
- touchWheelSpinThreshold: 0.80
- jogSensitivityScratch: 1.0
- jogSensitivityCue: 0.50
- jogSensitivityBend: 0.050
- jogVibrationProtection: 0
Conclusion
Hopefully this little guide helped you adjust the jog wheel sensitivity of your DJ controller to your liking and showed you what other nifty settings are available for modifying your controller’s jog wheel behavior.
VirtualDJ features a surprising amount of customization options which can be really handy for DJs that like to deep dive into all kinds of specific settings, DJs using additional non-standard DJ controllers and all you folks with older MIDI devices that often need additional configuration to function properly.
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