Rane SL 4 Operator's Manual download pdf (Page 11)

RANE SL4 FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR’S MANUAL 2.5.0

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NOTE: Older iTunes Music Store DRM

ﬁles cannot be played back by Scratch

Live. iTunes Plus ﬁles are DRM-free.

Playing Music

Click on the “ All...” icon to show all the

tracks in your library. Use the keyboard

shortcut Shift - Left Arrow to load the

highlighted track on to the Left Deck, and

Shift - Right Arrow to load the highlighted

track on to the Right Deck.

TIP: You can also load tracks to Decks

using the mouse. Click and drag a track

from the track list area on to either

Virtual Deck.

To start playing a track, simply put

the needle on the record and start the

turntable. The track will start playing as

soon as it detects the signal from the

control vinyl (or CD).

In ABS mode, the track will play from

the position dictated by the placement of

the needle on the record. If you place the

needle at the beginning of the record, the

track will start playing from the beginning.

You can skip through the track by picking

up the needle and placing it further into

the record, just as with regular records

(This is known as needle dropping). See

“Scratch Live Modes” on page 16.

Track Display

When a track is loaded, the track name,

artist and length are displayed in the track

title bar, and the Virtual Deck shows a

solid black line.

If the track has BPM or key information

written in the tag this will also be

displayed. See ”Set Auto BPM” on page

12.

Preparing

Your Files

Before you play your music in Scratch

Live, It is important to rst analyze your

les.

The analyze les function processes

the songs in your library to detect le

corruption, saves the waveform overview

to an ID3 tag*, and calculates auto-gain

and BPM values.

How to Analyze Files

To analyze les run Scratch Live with the

SL4 disconnected. On the left side of

the main screen, click the Analyze Files

button to automatically build overviews for

all the tracks in your library.

TIP: You can drag and drop individual

folders, crates or ﬁles onto the Analyze

Files button to force the building of

overviews at any time.

About Corrupt Files

If Scratch Live detects a corrupt

le it will tag it with a corrupt le

icon:

It is very important that you delete ANY

corrupt les from your library as they can

cause Scratch Live to crash regardless

if you play the le or not. See “Status

Icons” on page 27 and “Corrupt File

Descriptions and Diagnoses” on page

40.

Whitelabel.

net

The Serato Whitelabel Delivery Network is

a unique system that allows record labels

to digitally deliver promotional releases

directly to DJs.

To download Whitelabel audio les and

sign up to receive updates on the latest

promotional releases, visit whitelabel.net.

Whitelabel Audio Files

Whitelabel.net audio les are a unique

format (le extension wl.mp3) developed

by Serato. They are specially prepared for

use in Scratch Live; pre-analyzed, tagged

with song and artist info, BPM and album

art where possible.

Whitelabel audio les play as high

quality 320 kbps stereo audio in Scratch

Live when Rane Scratch Live hardware is

connected. Without Scratch Live hardware

connected, or when playing these les

through other mp3 software and devices,

they will play as low quality 32 kbps mono

audio.

Whitelabel audio les are promotional

releases from records labels available to

Scratch Live DJs for free from Whitelabel.

net.

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