Manual Roland DJ-808 (page 2 of 32) (English)

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Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Downloading the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Downloading the DJ-808 USB Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Downloading the Serato DJ Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Mac OS Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Windows Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Panel Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Browser Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Deck Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Eect Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Mixer Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

TR-S Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

VT Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Rear Panel (Connecting Your Equipment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using Serato DJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Starting Serato DJ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Basic Operations in Serato DJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Importing a Song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Loading a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Playing a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Monitoring Through Headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Closing Serato DJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Operating the DJ-808 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Performance Pad Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Hot Cue Operations (HOT CUE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Cue Loop Operations (CUE LOOP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Roll Operations (ROLL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Slicer Operations (SLICER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Saved Loop Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

TR Operations (TR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Pattern Operations (PATTERN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

TR Velocity Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Serato Sampler Operations (SAMPLER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Pitch Play Operations (PITCH PLAY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Velocity Sampler Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Slip Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Dual Deck Mode Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Song Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Eect Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Multi FX Mode Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Single FX Mode Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Changing the Eect Tempo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Inputting Sound from an External Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Inputting Sound from a DJ Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Inputting Sound from a Turntable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Inputting Sound from a Mic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

TR-S Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Playing, Copying, or Deleting Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Changing Instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

TR-REC (Step Recording) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

INST REC (Realtime Recording) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Synchronizing the TR-S Tempo with the Serato DJ Tempo . . 21

Backing Up or Restoring TR-S Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using the DJ-808 in Stand-Alone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

System Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Adjusting the Performance Pad Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Returning to the Factory Settings (Factory Reset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using Serato Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Purchasing Serato Flip Expansion Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Activating the Serato Flip Expansion Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Flip Display in the Serato DJ Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Flip Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Specifying Hot Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Creating a Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Saving the Flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Recalling and Playing a Flip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Saved Flip Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using Serato DVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Purchasing Serato DVS Expansion Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Activating the Serato DVS Expansion Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

About the Virtual Deck Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Settings for Using DVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Turntable/DJ Player Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Serato DJ Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Adjusting the Control Signal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Playing a Song with DVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Functions Available When Using DVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Block Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Main Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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