Operation Manual

VirtualDJ 5 DJC Edition
iii) Procedure
You place the start of a loop with the Loop In button, and you place the end of
the loop with the Loop Out button. You are then inside the loop.
When you are inside a loop, you can:
- leave the loop by pressing the Loop Out button,
- reduce the loop length by pressing the Loop In button.
iv) Tips
Shortening a loop
As long as your loop can be divided into beats of the original music track, the
loop doesn't change the music speed; but if you reduce the loop to below 1
beat, by pushing the Loop In button while you are playing the last beat of the
loop, you accelerate the speed of the music by making this loop the new beat of
the music. If you shorten the loop to a fraction of a beat, you don't hear a beat
anymore but rather a continuous sound, which may sound industrial or techno
even if it is based on a standard analog musical instrument.
Sampling a loop
VirtualDJ 5 DJC Edition sampler mode by default records a 4-beat loop of the
music on the fly at the moment you press the Sampler Rec button; so if you
want to sample a different length, you should define the loop with the Loop In
button and Loop Out buttons and once you are in the loop, press the Sampler
Rec button, which will save this loop as a sample.
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