Playback

Playback

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1.IN/CUE (IN ADJUST) button

2.OUT (OUT ADJUST) button

⇨Fine-adjusting loop points

3.RELOOP/EXIT button

⇨Canceling loop playback

4.DECK SELECT buttons

Selects the deck to use.

5.CUE/LOOP CALL ICON_left , ICON_right buttons

⇨Calling up a saved cue point

⇨Doubling a loop in length

⇨Calling up a saved loop

6.4 BEAT LOOP (1/2X), 8 BEAT LOOP (2X) buttons

⇨Using the 4 BEAT LOOP (1/2X) button

⇨Halving the length of a loop

7.BEAT JUMP ICON_left , ICON_right buttons

⇨Beat Jump/Loop Move

8.SLIP button

⇨Turning Slip mode on

9.SLIP REV button

⇨Slip Reverse

Lights up during reverse playback or Slip Reverse.

10.SHIFT button

11.TRACK SEARCH , ICON_forward buttons

Jumps to the beginning of a track.

12.SEARCH ICON_search_left , ICON_search_right buttons

Fast forward or fast reverse a track.

13.CUE button

14. button

Plays or pause a track.

15.QUANTIZE (for deck) button

⇨Quantize (for deck)

16.DELETE button

⇨Deleting a saved cue point

⇨Deleting a saved loop

17.MEMORY button

⇨Saving a cue point

⇨Saving a loop

18.BEAT SYNC (INST.DOUBLES) button

19.MASTER button

20.KEY SYNC button

21.TEMPO ±6/±10/±16/WIDE button

Sets the variable range of the TEMPO slider.

22.MASTER TEMPO button

Turns Master Tempo on and off.

23.TEMPO RESET button, Tempo Reset indicator

Resets to the track’s original speed regardless of the TEMPO slider’s setting.
The Tempo Reset indicator lights up when Tempo Reset is turned on.

24.TEMPO slider

⇨Adjusting the playback speed (tempo control)

Play/pause

1Press the [] button.

—During pause: Starts playing the loaded track.

—During playback: Pauses the track.

•Playback of the next track doesn’t automatically start when [Play Mode] is set to [Single] in the Utility settings.

•Pausing playback in Vinyl mode mutes the sound, and in Normal mode it will output the sound intermittently.

⇨Setting the jog wheel mode

Playing a track from the touched point on the overall waveform

1Touch the overall waveform during pause or while pressing the top of the jog wheel in Vinyl mode.

The loaded track plays from the touched point.

•You can quickly move the playback point by sliding your finger to the point you want on the overall waveform.

Reverse playback

1Press and hold the [SLIP REV] button.

The button lights up and the loaded track plays in reverse while normal playback continues in the background.

•When the button is released, playback starts from the exact point the track would have reached by then.

Reverse

1Press the [SLIP REV] button while pressing the [SHIFT] button.

The button lights up and the loaded track plays in reverse.

•Acceleration and deceleration of playback according to jog wheel rotation are also reversed.

•Maintaining reverse playback from one track to the next isn’t possible.

•You may not be able to scratch if you perform Track Search or loop playback during reverse playback.

Basic operations during playback

Function

Description

Fast-forward/fast-reverse

Press the [SEARCH ICON_search_right ] or [SEARCH ICON_search_left ] button to fast-forward or fast-reverse.

Track Search

Press the [TRACK SEARCH ICON_forward ] button to jump to the beginning of the next track.

Press the [TRACK SEARCH ] button to jump to the beginning of the track that’s playing. Press the button twice to jump to the beginning of the previous track.

Frame Search

Press the [SEARCH ICON_search_right ] or [SEARCH ICON_search_left ] button during pause to move the pause position.

Adjusting the playback speed (tempo control)

1Move the TEMPO slider.

—To the [+] side: Increases the playback speed.

—To the [-] side: Decreases the playback speed.

•The variable range of the TEMPO slider changes in the order of ±6 (0.02%) → ±10 (0.05%) → ±16 (0.05%) → WIDE (0.5%) each time you press the [TEMPO ±6/±10/±16/WIDE] button*.
The adjustable range of [WIDE] is ±100%. The track stops when it’s set to -100%.
* The value in parentheses indicates the adjustment unit.

Adjusting the playback speed without changing the pitch (Master Tempo)

If you turn Master Tempo on, you can change the playback speed of a track using the TEMPO slider without changing the pitch.

1Press the [MASTER TEMPO] button to turn Master Tempo on.

The button lights up when Master Tempo is turned on.

•Press the [MASTER TEMPO] button again to turn Master Tempo off.

Monitoring a different part of a track during playback (Touch Cue)

If you touch the overall waveform while a track is playing, you can monitor the sound from the touched point without affecting the output sound.

1Connect headphones to the unit.

2Press the [LINK CUE] button.

⇨Headphones section

3Touch the overall waveform on the waveform screen.

You can monitor the sound from the touched position with your headphones.

•The waveform of the touched point is zoomed in on and displayed as an enlarged waveform.