VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 3 2) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS............................................................................................... 3 a) b) VIRTUALDJ DJC MP3 E2 OVERVIEW............................................................................. 4 a) b) c) d) e) c) d) 5) Serial number....................................................................................
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 e) 6) BEAT MATCHING MUSIC FILES .................................................................................... 21 a) b) c) d) 7) Sync button on DJ Control MP3 e2 (= Beatmatch) ................................................... 23 Pitch fader (and Master Tempo)................................................................................ 24 i) Pitch fader .....................................................................................................
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 1) INTRODUCTION a) b) PC Desktop/laptop PC with Intel Pentium III/Athlon 1GHz processor or higher 512MB RAM Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP®, Vista® or 7™ USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 powered USB port (or USB hub) Hercules DJ Control MP3 e2 Headphones or amplified stereo speakers CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive 16-bit, 1024x768 video resolution Microphone, Internet connection + 100MB free hard disk space Mac Desktop/laptop Mac with G4/G5 1.5GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo 1.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive 16-bit, 1024x768 video resolution Microphone, Internet connection + 100MB free hard disk space 3) VIRTUALDJ DJC MP3 E2 OVERVIEW The VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 interface can be split into 5 areas: • • • • • a) Browser area: folders + files areas Deck A Mixer Deck B Waveform Browser area: folders area + files area In this area, you can browse through your computer or network drive to select the audio files you will load onto a deck and mix.
ENGLISH VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 FRANÇAIS Deck A ESPAÑOL ITALIANO NEDERLANDS This is the virtual deck on the left. You can: • load music files on this deck, • move within the track, • play the music file loaded on this deck, • add a bookmark to a position (called a Cue point), • change the pitch (the playback speed), • view the BPM, pitch variation, elapsed and remaining time.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 01 Music tag: Artist name on top – Song name on second line 02 Pitch slider: down = speed up / up = slow down 03 Virtual vinyl record: scratch on the virtual record with your mouse / drag and drop music onto the virtual record with your mouse 04 Pitch slider setting: minus = slower / square = default pitch / plus = faster 05 Time counter: elapsed time on top / remaining time on bottom 06 File form overview (red mark on top and bottom = cue point) 07 BPM counter (129.2 = 129.
User Manual – 7/41 ITALIANO ESPAÑOL 01 Preview Deck A: when you click button 1 in the software, button 1 becomes green, so deck A (= Deck 1) is the deck you are previewing.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 d) Deck B This is the virtual deck on the right. You can: • load music files on this deck, • move within the track, • play the music file loaded on this deck, • add a bookmark to a position (called a Cue point), • change the pitch (the playback speed), • view the BPM, pitch variation, elapsed and remaining time.
Serial number The first time you run VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2, you are asked to enter a serial number. This serial number is found on the paper envelope of your installation CD. This serial number belongs to you: you cannot change it, and you must not share it with any other user of VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2; otherwise, you won't be able to register on the VirtualDJ website, which will not let you access VirtualDJ service updates, plug-ins, or upgrades.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 i) Folders area On the left of the browser area, you can see the list of the folders and disk units on your computer: the active folder has a blue background. You know you are in the folder area because the folder button in the centre of the DJ Control MP3e2 is lip up. .
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 Files area c) BPM (Beats Per Minute) rate of your music files The BPM rate is the number of beats per minute in the music, which reflects how fast the music is: a BPM rate below 85 is slow, a BPM rate over 130 is fast.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 then read the BPM (Beats Per Minute) rate in the browsing area, to load only music tracks matching the BPM rate you need. To analyze the music files in a directory: - select the music file(s) in the music list and right-click with your mouse (or on Mac with no right-click on the mouse, use Ctrl + mouse click): a pop-up menu lets you select the action Scan for BPMs to analyze the music files.
iii) BPM rate display ESPAÑOL ITALIANO NEDERLANDS The BPM rate is displayed in 2 areas: if you have analyzed the files, the BPM rates are listed in the browser area, on each deck, on the bottom left of the pitch slider. FRANÇAIS If a music file is not analyzed, loading this file on a deck analyzes it, and you can read its BPM rate on the VirtualDJ display on the bottom left of the pitch slider.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 i) Customizing the tag display You can select which fields of the music tag you want to display in the music browser by right-clicking with your mouse on the music browser headlines (or Ctrl + mouse click in Mac OS, using a Mac mouse with only 1 button). You can display the following tags: Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Bpm, Key, Length, Bitrate, Year, Comment. ii) Sorting the music files You can sort your music files by each tag’s data (by song name, artist name, BPM, music genre..
a) Loading and playing an audio file ESPAÑOL When you have selected an audio file in your music browser, you can load it: on the left deck of VirtualDJ by pressing the Load A button on your DJ Control MP3 e2; or on the right deck of VirtualDJ by pressing the Load B button on your DJ Control MP3 e2.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 Once an audio file is loaded on a deck, you can: Play it: press the DJ Control MP3 e2’s Play button on the corresponding deck, Move within the audio file: turn the jog wheel on the corresponding deck, Move faster within the audio file: press the fast forward or rewind buttons on the corresponding deck.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 b) Supported audio formats i) File extensions VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 supports most digital audio formats, such as MP3 (PC/Mac), AAC (PC/Mac), AIFF (Mac), WAV (PC), WMA (PC), OGG (PC) and CD-Audio. Video files c) Previewing a track Previewing an audio track means: playing it for the DJ’s ears only, while playing another track for the audience. You usually preview a music file on your headphones while playing another track for the audience over your speakers.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 ii) Equipment To preview a music file, you must: 1) Own a sound card with 4-channel analog outputs or higher (such as a 5.1 or 7.1 sound card); and 2) Declare the 4-channel (or higher) sound card in the operating system (otherwise your sound card may be recognized as a stereo only sound card only).
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 ENGLISH Moving within a music track ESPAÑOL ITALIANO NEDERLANDS DEUTSCH You can move within a music track using 3 controls: Play the music track with DJ Control MP3 e2’s Play buttons. This is the simplest way: just press the Play button of the selected deck on your controller, and you can hear the track on your headphones at the position you have reached, Move within the track by turning DJ Control MP3 e2’s jog wheels.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 i) Placing a Cue point Once the music file is loaded on a deck, preview it for yourself only (on your headphones) up to the point you choose as bookmark: you can reach this point by playing the music file, by pushing the fast forward button or by turning the jog wheel. Then press the Cue button at the spot you want to place a cue point.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 iii) Going to the Cue point Beat matching consists of adjusting the playback speed of music track B until the moment the beats (often marked by drums or bass) of this track B play at the same time as the beats of track A, to keep the same beat during 3 steps: 1. when playing track A, 2. then mixing track B together with track A, 3. and then when you stop playback of track A to keep only track B playing, to spare the dancers a change in the dancing rhythm.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2’s display includes 5 controls per deck to control the pitch: The pitch fader. The Pitch Plus and Pitch Minus round button buttons to the left of the pitch fader, which gradually change the pitch. The Pitch restore button to the left of the pitch fader, which gradually restores the pitch to the default value of the audio file (to a 0.0% pitch variation).
a) Sync button on DJ Control MP3 e2 (= Beatmatch) ESPAÑOL ITALIANO Pressing a DJ Control MP3 e2 Sync button (or clicking a VirtualDJ Beatmatch button) on a deck instantly synchronizes the beat of the music loaded on this deck with the beat of the music file of the other deck: this Beat matching process is instant and easy.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 The pitch scale can be changed: by double-clicking the percentage figure displayed below the pitch fader, by keeping the DJ Control MP3 e2’s Master tempo button pressed down (over the Pitch knob on your DJ Control MP3 e2). You can set a pitch scale of 6%, 12% or 33%.
ii) Master Tempo ESPAÑOL Master Tempo is a setting allowing you to keep the tone of a track unchanged while you change the tempo: this is useful to speed up or slow down a track without making its tone change (thereby avoiding the impression that the musicians are playing the track faster!).
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 Normal press: the Master Tempo function. If this Master Tempo function is enabled, the button is backlit and the pitch fader on the deck changes the music speed without changing the music tone (i.e. playing the track faster doesn't make the music’s tone higher pitched, and playing the track slower doesn't make the music’s tone lower pitched). Long press: if you keep the Master tempo button pressed down for more than 1 second, you change the pitch scale between 3 values: 6, 12 and 33%.
iv) Action of the pitch fader in VirtualDJ When you move the pitch fader, you can see its action in 2 ways: the BPM counter changes (displayed in VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 on the bottom right of virtual vinyl record), the scrolling of the music track in the waveform window goes slower or faster. However, the best way to note the pitch change is to hear the change in the music’s speed.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 In the VirtualDJ waveform window, the start of each beat is marked with a small square below the waveform, so: if the squares of both music tracks overlap, the music tracks are synchronized, if the squares of both music tracks don't overlap, the music tracks are not synchronized.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 c) Pitch Bend buttons (“Pitch Bend –” and “Pitch Bend +”) NEDERLANDS DEUTSCH FRANÇAIS ENGLISH The Pitch Bend –/+ buttons slow down/speed up playback of the music track loaded on a deck. The difference between these functions and the pitch faders is that the pitch bend action is temporary: when you release the button, the music track’s playback gradually returns to its previous speed. Pitch bend is therefore an “elastic setting”.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 d) Jog Wheels While music is playing on a deck, the jog wheel on the deck has 2 possible modes: Fine Tuning mode (when the Scratch button on DJ Control MP3 e2 is off): you can slow down or speed up the music playback temporarily by turning the jog wheels, as you would do by pressing the Pitch Bend – or Pitch Bend + buttons. The action is the same as if you were slowing down or speeding up a record on a vinyl turntable by putting your fingers on the edge of the record.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 7) LOOPS AND EFFECTS a) Loops i) Definition A loop is a repeated playback of a portion of the music, generally a fixed number of beats. Loops are used to remain on a specific part of a music without stopping its rhythm. ii) Loop sizes FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL When the Shift button is not lit up on your controller, you are in loop mode and a single press of buttons 1, 2, 3 or 4 makes loops in the music played on the deck in question.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 iii) Procedure The loop starts exactly at the moment you press the button, so the music plays 1, 2, 4 or 8 beats after the moment you have pressed the button, then comes back to the start of the loop and the music keeps on going continuously, as if the loops were the new music track. When you enter into a loop (using buttons 1, 2, 3 or 4), you remain in this loop until you decide to exit it.
To set the flanger, press the flanger button; to stop it, press the button again. Changing the flanger You can change the flanger preset in the Fx menu by selecting: the delay of the flanger, the frequency of the flanger User Manual – 33/41 ITALIANO Flanger ESPAÑOL i) The flanger consists of adding a cycle of stretching and compression on some frequencies of an audio track while keeping the other frequencies unchanged, so that you keep the tempo and the tone of the music but change its sound.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 ii) Beatgrid The beatgrid is a beat repeater: it samples 4 beats of the current music track and plays this 4-beat pattern over the music, during 4 beats, which adds intermediary beats on the music: If you keep the beatgrid button pressed down, the 4-beat pattern is added continuously as a loop over the music track. If you release the beatgrid button, the 4-beat pattern stops at the 4th beat, while the music track playback goes on.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 iii) Flippin Double Overloop ESPAÑOL ITALIANO iv) The overloop function sets a 4-beat loop of the current track and plays it in the background of the track’s playback. To apply the overloop function, press the overloop button once. To stop the overloop function, press the overloop button again.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 8) SCRATCH, AUTOMIX, SAMPLER a) Scratching Scratching is the action of stopping a vinyl record playing on a turntable with your hand, and playing a portion of the music backwards and forwards with your hand. This makes a specific sound, called scratching: the vinyl record moves at the speed of your hand instead of turning at the speed of the turntable (since the slip mat placed below the record isolates the record from the rotations of the turntable).
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 b) Automix c) Sampler i) Function The sampler mode is a mode where you record a loop of a music track, store it and assign it to a button, and play it back later in addition to your music file. This recorded loop is called a sample. Playing back a sample over a music track may add a fun dynamic, rhythm or a stable beat while you are busy preparing the next track.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 ii) Procedure You can enter sampler mode by pressing the button labeled Sample in the VirtualDJ user interface. The sampler mode is not controlled by the DJ Control MP3 e2’s buttons; you control sampler mode using your keyboard and mouse. VirtualDJ includes a few samples stored on the first banks: you can either keep them or change the contents of the banks by recording your own samples.
VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2 You play back the sample by pressing the sample Play button. Commands on each sample You set the volume of each sample using its dedicated volume slider. You set the sample in loop mode (so that VirtualDJ plays the sample non-stop as long as you don't click the sample Play button again) by clicking the button with a circular arrow on top of the volume slider. FRANÇAIS ENGLISH iii) When you click on the Play area, its color changes and you see the playback bar fill gradually.
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