Operation Manual

VirtualDJ 5 DJC Edition
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m) Scratching
Scratching is the action of stopping a vinyl record playing on a turntable with
your hand, and moving the record back and forth, creating a distinctive sound:
the vinyl record moves at the speed of your hand instead of at the speed of the
turntable (since the slip mat isolates it from the turntable's rotation).
i) Scratch mode
You can enable Scratch mode by pressing the Scratch button, located over the
Up button on the DJ controller: the Scratch button lights up, and you can use
the jog wheels to scratch.
ii) Action
Once you are in the Scratch mode, if you turn the jog wheel counterclockwise,
you play the music track backward, and if you turn the jog wheel clockwise, you
play the music forward, at the speed of the jog wheel's rotation.
iii) Tips
ASIO latency
Scratching requires a short latency, so you must set a short latency in your
audio interface. With your DJ Console Rmx, VirtualDJ 5.0 DJC Edition often
has a better ASIO latency in 48KHz than in 44.1KHz mode, so setting your DJ
Console Rmx in ASIO at 48KHz, 16-bit, with a 7ms buffer before running
VirtualDJ 5 DJC should give you a satisfactory result.
Jog wheel accuracy
Scratching requires the best accuracy for the jog wheels, so you should select
the standard jog wheel accuracy in the DJ Console Rmx control panel instead of
one of the reduced accuracy modes.