SERATO SCratCH LIVE 2.2 DATA SHEET 2011 Serato Scratch Live combined with Rane hardware is the ultimate solution for professional DJs, giving you the freedom to take your entire digital music collection on the road and equipping you with advanced features that add extra creativity to your DJing. This intuitive system replicates the traditional DJing experience for “real feel” usability. With Classic Vertical Mode unparalleled performance, sound quality and stability, you’ll soon see why thousands of DJs VirtUAL DECKS worldwide choose Serato Scratch Live. Music files are loaded onto the Virtual Decks, Stack Mode with the Rane SL 3 • Load music files onto Virtual Decks for which rotate as the playback. music plays, much like TOOL TIPS • Browse your music collection by custom regular turntables or Handy built-in Tool Tips provide a simple guide categories and album art. CDJ decks. to learn the software and the applications of • Prepare audio files for playback with The Virtual Deck each feature. A list of keyboard shortcuts are auto- gain and BPM calculation. shows everything also in the Tool Tips. • Organise music with crates and smart about the speed and crates. position of a track. As IMPortiNG MUSIC • Choose from multiple play and display the vinyl rotates, so does the line on the label. Importing music is done simply by navigating to modes to suit your performance style. The circular progress bar around the edge is a your hard drive(s) via Serato Scratch Live’s File • Use visual aides, cues and loops to perfect visual representation of the position within the pane. You can also drag and drop files directly your mixing. song. The Virtual Decks display pitched BPM from Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac). iTunes • Add extra creativity to your sets with information, and the time and remaining time are users have the option to integrate existing iTunes DJ-FX, the SP-6 Sample Player and other displayed in minutes and seconds. Scratch Live plug-ins. libraries and playlists into their Scratch Live library. Importing audio files to your computer is SUPPorted FILE FORMats LIBRARY highly recommend, however you can play files directly from CD and CD-ROM. Scratch Live supports multiple file formats: Browse your music collection by album, artist, fixed and variable bit-rate MP3, Ogg Vorbis, BPM and genre. Additional column sort options FILE PREParatioN AAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV and Whitelabel (wl.mp3) can be selected for custom needs. Tracks in your library can also be browsed using three different file types*. M3U playlists are also supported. Build waveform overviews, check for file album art modes. corruption and use Scratch Live’s optional auto- *For more information on wl.mp3 files visit Scratch Live includes an intuitive Search gain and BPM calculation with the Analyze Files whitelabel.net function to help you find tracks quickly. button. NOTE: Older iTunes Music Store DRM files Use the Offline Player to prepare crates, cannot be played back by Scratch Live. iTunes audition tracks, and set cue and loop points, Plus files are DRM-free. without needing to have the Rane hardware connected. SERATO SCRATCH LIVE DATA SHEET 2011 1 Crates AND SMart Crates KEYLOCK SCratCH LIVE PLUG-INS Create Crates and Subcrates to group tracks When Key Lock is on, the key or pitch of the Optional plug-ins can be switched on and off, within for quick recall and simple organisation. song stays locked at what it would be if the track allowing you to choose which extra features you You can also merge these crates onto an external was playing at normal speed, regardless of the would like to use when DJing. drive for simple migration to another laptop. platter speed of the turntable or CD player. Smart Crates allow you to set rules and SP-6 Sample Player allows you to trigger up keywords for crates, which automatically update VISUAL AIDS to six additional sources of audio (e.g. sound when relevant tracks are added or removed from effects, drops). Store samples in multiple sample your library. bank slots, and choose individual output options for each slot. HISTORY The history button opens a complete log of all the tracks you have played and allows you to export Scratch Live session information as a data file for future reference. PLAY MODES Scratch Live has three different play modes which you assign to each Virtual Deck. Absolute Mode most closely resembles the When a track is playing several waveforms and properties of regular vinyl; needle dropping, DJ-FX give you control of two FX units, each with scratching, rubbing and other turntablist visual aids are displayed. three chained effects slots per unit. Customize techniques are most faithfully reproduced in Tempo Display provides a helpful tool for and save preferred effect parameter settings for this mode. Absolute Mode is the recommended beat matching - each peak represents the beats quick recall. mode to use when using the standard hardware within a track. As you change the pitch of a song, functions on CDJs. these peaks shift position. When track tempos SL 3 AUX Deck allows the Aux In and Out Relative Mode allows for skip free scratching are in-time, these peaks will be aligned. channels on the Rane SL 3 to be used for and the use of Scratch Live’s cueing, looping Beat Matching Display emphasizes the connecting a third deck. and censor controls. position of beats within a track alongside the Internal Mode lets you play and mix files waveform display, for quick beat matching. Serato Playlists export track play information to without external vinyl or CD control. Internal Track Overview Display shows an overview your user profile on www.serato.com. This can mode contains a start/stop function, a pitch of the track waveform, which is useful for finding be done using the History export function post- slider and pitch nudge controls. It is also the transitions in a track and for jumping quickly to set, or you can choose to live update during your emergency mode Scratch Live defaults to when any part of the song. set. the end of a control record or CD is reached. Colored Waveforms by frequency for visual identification of instruments and vocals. Serato VIDEO-SL DISPLAY MODES Playback video files using the Serato Video-SL Four different Display Modes allow you to CUES AND LOOPS plug-in, and mix them using creative effects and choose the best Virtual Deck arrangement to suit Create up to five Cue transitions which compliment the audio. Serato your style of performance. Points for each track to Video-SL is available to buy separately. Visit Library Mode simplifies the deck arrangement mark and trigger key parts www.serato.com/video-sl. with a larger view of the library and no waveform of your songs. matching. Create and save up THE BRIDGE Classic Vertical Mode displays two decks on to nine Loops per track, The Bridge allows you to combine elements the left and right side of the screen with vertical either manually or using of Ableton Live with Serato Scratch Live, to waveforms in the middle. the Auto-Loop function. create unique performances and to perfect Classic Horizontal Mode displays two decks your mixtapes. The Bridge is free-of-charge on the left and right side of the screen with for users of Serato Scratch Live 2.1.1 and horizontal waveforms in the middle. Ableton Live/Suite 8.2 or above. Visit www. Stack Mode displays the decks and serato.com/thebridge. waveforms on top of one another horizontally, which is useful when using more than two decks (with supported Rane hardware). 2 SERATO SCRATCH LIVE DATA SHEET 2011 SL 1 SL 3 SL 4 TTM 57SL SIXTY-EIGHT RANE HARDWARE COMPARSION GUIDE A detailed comparison guide of Rane’s official Complete descriptions of Rane hardware, hardware for Serato Scratch Live. This includes including controls, connections, accessories reference to the differences within the Scratch and detailed specifications are available at Live software for each piece of hardware. www.rane.com. HARDWARE SL 1 SL 3 SL 4 TTM 57SL Sixty-Eight SOFTWARE FEATURES SL 1 SL 3 SL 4 TTM 57SL Sixty-Eight USB 1.1 • • 2 Deck mixing • • • • • USB 2.0 • • • 3 Deck mixing • • • Two USB ports • • 4 Deck mixing • • Grounding posts • • • • Visual Beat Matching • • • • • XLR Mic input • Key lock • • • • • ¼˝ Mic input • • • Censor button • • • • • Phantom Powered Mic input • Repeat button • • • • • Two Mic inputs • Manual looping • • • • • Mic input tone controls • • Auto looping • • • • • Mic input FlexFX • Loop roll • • • • • USB bus powered • • • 5 available cue points • • • • • Self powered • • 9 available loop slots • • • • • Aux/Session inputs • • • • Tooltips • • • • • Aux/Session outputs • • • • DJ-FX • • • • • RCA Thru outputs • SP-6 Sample Player • • • • • Software Thru outputs • • Additional SP-6 output • • • Switchable 48 kHz / 96 kHz • MIDI mappable controls • • • • • sample rate Virtual Deck gain trims • • • • • Video-SL compatible • • • • • Master gain trim • • • • • Pre-mapped Serato Video- • • SL hardware controls Mixer tone controls • • LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SL 1 SL 3 SL 4 TTM 57SL Sixty-Eight Mixer crossfader & upfaders • • iTunes playlist compatibility • • • • • Main outputs (XLR) • • Crates, Sub & Smart crates • • • • • Balanced/unbalanced booth • • outputs (¼˝) Real time tempo metering • • • • • FlexFX loop • • Auto BPM detection • • • • • Two headphones outputs • • Multiple display view modes • • • • • (¼˝ and 3.5 mm) Album art browsing • • • • • Built-in mixer effects • • History (play logs) • • • • • Headphone monitoring • • Serato online playlist • • • • • Split cue monitoring • compatibilty SERATO SCRATCH LIVE DATA SHEET 2011 3 SETUP SCREEN OPTIONS SL 1 SL 3 SL 4 TTM 57SL Sixty-Eight Serato CONTROL HARDWARE Mix and scratch files from your computer hard drive using Serato Control Vinyl, Serato Control CD or Approved USB Controllers. Adjustable USB buffer • • • • • Adjustable phono sensitivity • • • • Serato Control Vinyl and Control CD (included with Rane hardware) Adjustable joystick direction • The Serato Control Vinyl and Control CDs each contain the Noise Map Adjustable footswitch type • Control Tone, a unique control signal which allows Scratch Live to track the motion of the record, simulating the same movement with digital audio.