How To Use Serato Scratch Live

Howdy anybody! My proper name's Logan, I'chiliad i of the Product Planners here at Serato. I'g also a DJ. I know the software quite well. I desire to share a few piffling things in Serato DJ that I couldn't do without.

Control + L

This might be the all-time thing that has ever happened in life. When in your library, printing CONTROL + Fifty on your keyboard to jump you lot highlighted track focus to the track that is loaded to your deck. Printing information technology once for Deck ane, press it again to leap to the rails loaded to Deck 2 and so on. That might not sound that amazing only it's insanely handy. For case you're in a large crate, and yous are sorting by BPM, and you scroll really far abroad, then you're similar 'actually nah I'one thousand going to go on it at this tempo', BOOM just press Command + 50 and you'll jump directly back to where y'all were in the library which was the last loaded track. (Which is A$AP Ferg - Shabba threescore BPM)

PITCH LOOPER

This is the funnest affair since Loop Rolls. Load up Pitch Looper, set your beats to something small (i/ii - 1/8), and set your depth knob to 12 o'clock. And then turn it on and plow the depth known downwards the total left. It gives a breaker type effect, and sounds awesome on snares. Brand sure you lot always outset it from 12 o'clock though and turn information technology upward or downwards.

Note: Pitch Looper is ane of the effects in the Back Pack, which you tin purchase from within the 'Online' window of the Serato DJ application.

Calculation A Vocal FROM iTUNES

I don't have 'Show iTunes Library' on considering I organise things differently there than I practise in SDJ. But when I purchase a rail from iTunes and I want to get it into SDJ the quickest way is to just jump into the Setup Screen, enable 'Show iTunes Library', open the 'Purchased' playlist, and just throw the track into a SDJ crate. Now when I become and plough 'Testify iTunes Library' off, the iTunes library will disappear except for the file(s) that I added to a Serato crate. Sound obvious only it's just a quick way of adding only certain iTunes songs into your Serato library really fast.

Motion Upwards/DOWN YOUR CRATES WITHOUT LOSING TRACK FOCUS

Lets say you're scrolling through tracks in crate with the keyboard arrows, and you want to scroll through a different crate. Yous'd accept to use your mouse and click on the new crate, then click on the track listing again, and then start scrolling. A first world trouble sure, merely a really quick way of doing this is simply using SHIFT + CONTROL + Downward/UP. This will modify what crate you are scrolling through without moving focus from the rails listing area. Bang-up trick if y'all are using hardware that doesn't take library control. Give it a get and you'll meet what I mean.

COMBO FADE ECHO

Echoing out is pretty much the Basketball layup of the DJ earth. Standard as. Combo Fade Echo is crawly for performing a nice clean echo out. Just set how much Low-laissez passer or High-pass filter you lot desire on the echo and and so hitting ON, and it volition instantly echo out using any beat value you take selected. Just this effect and a crossfader would be the best controller e'er.

Annotation: Combo Fade Echo is one of the effects in the Wolf Pack, which you can download for free inside the 'Online' window of the Serato DJ awarding.

UNDO LAST TRACK LOAD

It's pretty easy to accidentally load a rails to the deck that is playing aloud. Information technology's always going to happen. A quick press of Command + Z volition instantly undo the final track load AND have y'all back to exactly where you would've been in the last track have you Not loaded it. It's so polish you can even utilize information technology every bit an outcome. If there's one fob in Serato DJ/Scratch Live that you learn in should be this.

Make NEW MUSIC APPEAR IN SDJ EVERY TIME You lot OPEN IT

Serato DJ and Scratch Live have a feature chosen 'Motorcar Import'. Basically anything you lot throw into this folder volition appear in a 'Latest Imported' crate when you next open SDJ/SSL. That's kinda cool, but something you can practise that makes it even ameliorate is to set it upward then that any audio file you lot download from the internet shows up in your SDJ/SSL library the next time you open it. All yous really need to do is open up your internet browser, go to the browser settings and point the 'downloads' to your 'Auto Import' binder located in User -> Music -> Serato -> Car Import. Now you'll download something, and it'll show up in a 'Latest Imported' crate in SDJ/SSL. Withal, because everything you download from the cyberspace isn't going to be audio files y'all want to DJ with, you should too make a shortcut/allonym of your 'Machine Import' folder (just correct-click on it) and put it where you usually keep your downloads folder. And so y'all'll have access to all your downloaded content similar normal, except the sound files volition be motorcar-imported when you open SDJ/SSL. This 'technique' won't work for everyone just if you download a lot of music information technology an be a really fast way to get information technology into your library for sorting out.

BRAKING

If yous are using a controller, you can make information technology so that stopping a track sounds like stopping vinyl. Simply get to the DJ PREFERENCES tab of the Setup screen and set up your braking to almost 9'oclock. Now when you stop a track it will sound like a turntable, quite a cool upshot. Sounds improve with repeat combined.