RANE SL 3 FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR’S MANUAL 2.
RANE SL 3 FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR’S MANUAL 2.
Important Safety Instructions Copyright Notices Minimum System Requirements For the continued safety of yourself and others © 2011 Rane Corporation. All rights reserved. • Available USB 2.0 port. we recommend that you read the following safety Scratch Live and the Scratch Live logo • 1024 x 768 screen resolution or higher. and installation instructions. Keep this document are trademarks of Serato Audio Research. • 2 GB RAM, more for a large library. in a safe location for future reference.
Scratch Live: Getting started 6 Connecting Your Hardware Contents 3 12 Virtual Deck 12 System Overview 6 Visual Aids 12 Connecting the SL 3 6 Tempo Matching Display 12 Turntable Setup 6 Track Overview Display 12 CD Player Setup 6 Main Waveform Display 12 Kensington Security Slot 6 Beat Matching Display 12 7 Master Gain 13 Installing Scratch Live Important Safety Instructions Main Screen Overview 6 Mac 7 33 / 45 Speeds 13 Windows 7 Tracking Indicator 13 Additional W
SP-6 Sample Player 19 Editing ID3 tags 26 Reverse Vinyl Scroll 32 Loading the SP-6 19 Library Zoom 26 Vinyl Scroll Speed 32 Playing Samples 19 Display Album Art 26 Drop To Absolute Position 32 SP-6 Instant Doubles 19 Adding Album Art 27 Drop To Cue Points 33 SP-6 Play Modes 19 Status Icons 27 Vinyl Start Offset 33 SP-6 Pitch Controls 20 More Info on Corrupt Files 27 SP-6 ‘Play From’ Selector 20 SP-6 Track Overviews 20 File Management Library 33 Read iTunes Library
Connecting the SL 3 Scratch Live: Getting started 4. Connect the SL 3 to your computer To integrate an SL 3 unit into a typical DJ setup, connect it to your turntables (or CD players) and mixer, as follows: 1. Inputs * Using the provided USB cable, connect your SL 3 to an available USB 2.0 port on your RIGHT DECK Connecting Your Hardware computer. Make sure you connect it directly to your Connect your CD players or turntables to the DECK INPUTS on the Rane SL 3.
Playing Regular Vinyl and CDs Installing Scratch Live NOTE: the SL 3 must be powered by USB or Check for the latest download version of Scratch the supplied external power supply for the Live software at serato.com. If it is newer than DECK THRUs to work. what is on your CD-ROM, we recommend While Scratch Live is not running, and the installing it instead.
Starting the Software How to Calibrate Scratch Live With music playing in the background (from any Calibrating Scratch Live source), put your needle on the record with the turntable stopped. If you are using CD players, the same rules apply. Have the CD deck paused or stopped while calibrating. Ensure the input level in Scratch Live is set correctly to accept a LINE level signal. See “Line / Phono Status” on page 31. Click and hold the estimate button until the slider stops moving.
2. Once you have located your music, drag the Start both turntables or CD players. You will see green rings appear in the scope view as shown above. For optimal performance the inner ring should be as close to circular as possible. Use the Importing and Playing Music folder or files you want to import onto the purple “ All...” icon. This is located to the left of your screen at the top of the crates and playlist window.
NOTE: Older iTunes Music Store DRM files cannot be played back by Scratch Live. iTunes Plus files are DRM-free. Whitelabel.net Playing Music Preparing Your Files 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.
Set Auto BPM The Control CD Playback Control The control CD has two tracks. The first track is 15 minutes long and controls playback. The second track is 40 seconds If this option is checked while analyzing files, long and controls vinyl Scratch Live will calculate the estimated tempos scroll. of your files. If Scratch Live is confident that the Auto BPM estimate for a file is accurate, it will be Vinyl Scroll written to an ID3 tag* in the file.
Main Screen Overview Visual Aids Main Waveform Display When the track is playing several waveforms are This view provides a close-up displayed. Each shows a different aspect of the of the track, including color track being played. coding to show the frequency of the sound; red representing Tempo Matching Display low frequency bass, green representing mid-frequencies and blue representing high- The Tempo Matching display area provides a frequency helpful tool for beat matching.
Tap Tempo Censor After a few seconds, blue peaks appear in the For tracks with no BPM information, Use the censor button to “mask” parts Tempo Matching display. there is a tap tempo button displayed of a song, or use as a special effect. where the BPM usually is, in the song info area. When you press the censor button, the track Pressing alt-space bar activates the tempo starts playing backwards from that point.
Track Gain Use the track gain knob to balance the volume of the tracks in your library. Any Display Modes Library Views adjustment made to the gain of a track is saved with the file, and will be reapplied to the entire track when it is loaded again. The level meter shows the level sent to the hardware interface after both individual track gain and master gain adjustment. NOTE: For automatic gain setting of your tracks, see “Use Auto Gain” on page 32.
Absolute Mode Relative Mode ABS mode is the default mode, and most closely REL mode observes the relative forward and resembles the properties of normal vinyl. The backward movement of the record, but does not beginning of the track is mapped to the start of take into account the position within the record. the record, and by picking up the tone arm and REL mode disables needle dropping, but allows moving the needle to another part of the record skip-free scratching.
Internal Mode Pitch Slider - Use the pitch slider to More Controls make pitch adjustments while using You can also control playback using the INT mode. Drag the pitch slider with the computer keyboard shortcuts — turn Caps Lock mouse to make large pitch movements, on to enable. See “Playback Keys Use Shift” or hold the shift key and drag the pitch on page 31. slider to make fine adjustments. Clicking the RANGE button above the slider changes the slider range to ±8%, ±10%, ±16%, ±50% or ±100%.
TIP: Zoom in on the waveform using the – and Cue Points + keys and ‘scrub’ to the desired position for greater accuracy when setting cue points. Looping Enable Hot Cues To turn on hot cues, check Enable Hot Cues in the Playback tab on the Setup screen. When Hot Cues are enabled, you can set cue points simply by pressing the number keys 1 through 0 (no ctrl modifier required). Note that you can only add cues this way if the cue point slots are empty. See “Enable Hot Cues” on page 31.
locked loop symbol, a red border will appear. The A-Slot Loop Roll with MIDI This indicates the loop is locked, and you will A special loop slot ‘A’ exists for auto-looping. The You can assign loop roll to MIDI in several ways: not be able to adjust the end points or delete act of using the auto-loop buttons sets a loop in After pressing the MIDI assign button in Scratch the loop until you unlock it, by clicking on the the ‘A’ slot, following the rules above.
SP-6 Sample Player Loading the SP-6 SP-6 Play Modes To load a track to the SP-6, drag and drop the Each sample slot has three different play modes: desired file from your library into one of the sample slots. To eject a track, click the eject Trigger mode - When play is pressed, button to the right of the title display. the audio plays through until the end of the track.
SP-6 Pitch Controls SP-6 Slot Volumes There are E a c h output from the master, deselect the master individual individual option by clicking on the master button for the Pitch Slider, sample slot corresponding slot. Bend, Nudge, and Keylock controls for each has a separate volume slider and gain control. To send an individual slot to a different This will unlink the sample slot from the master sample player output selection, allowing sample slot.
Super Knob Mode DJ-FX Plugin or unlink a parameter to the Super Knob by you pressing the Link Button, allowing one master individual control of each effect in the control of some parameters and individual FX unit. Each effect slot has a Super Knob which control of others. Super Knob Mode allows controls the wet and dry amount for the effect. Click the Effects drop down box to select an effect for the effect slot. You can leave a slot Macro Edit Mode is an advanced empty by selecting “empty.
Now when you adjust the Ultra or Super Knob you will see the parameter knob move within the range that you just specified. Any parameters Aux Deck Plugin MIDI Control not customized but linked to the Super or Ultra Knob will behave as normal. You can save any macro mappings you have made to an effect by clicking the Save button by the Super Knob, and save effects combinations made in Ultra Knob Mode by clicking the Save button by the Ultra Knob.
Assigning Controls the slider, and then assign one of the pads to it. any of these devices using the “Enable MIDI To enable MIDI assign mode, click When you press the pad, pitch goes to 0. Device” checkbox. Presets Technical Information the MIDI button. Hovering the mouse pointer over a control will bring up the MIDI assignment box, showing the current Scratch Live MIDI Control only supports: assignment status.
Organizing Your Music Scratch Live can support an unlimited number of tracks – the only limitation is the size of the hard drive of your computer. A number of features are included to help you to keep your music organized and find songs quickly and easily. Grouping Tracks into Crates Scratch Live supports several ways of organizing and sorting your file library. iTunes users will notice that Scratch Live can incorporate your existing iTunes library and playlists.
The column button is located at the top of the Prepare Window Deck: The Virtual Deck that the song was played library pane in the right hand corner. Click on The Prepare window is a holding area for tracks, on will be displayed under the deck column. In the column button to select which columns you much like preparing a set by lifting records part the song row, either left or right is displayed. The want to display. To sort your library by a column, way out of your record bag.
TIP: To make a new Scratch Live crate Uploading Serato Playlists Editing ID3 tags containing your session information, select a Once you have finished your session, or to Much of the information associated with each file upload a previous history session, select the can be edited from within Scratch Live. Double desired session in the History panel. Click the click on the attribute within the main library to Format dropdown box, select Serato Playlists edit the attribute.
Adding Album Art You can add album art to a file by dragging and dropping a jpeg or png file onto the track in any Deleting Crates and Tracks File Management To delete tracks from your Scratch Live library, select the track and use the keyboard shortcut of the album art views, or onto the Album Art ctrl-delete. Make sure you have the Protect window. library option unchecked in the Library tab of the Setup screen.
Move: Select this to move the selected files and/ or folders to the new location. Your Scratch Live library and crates will now reference the files in Recordings can be loaded onto the Decks, renamed, Recording and managed like other files. Recordings are saved as 24-bit, 48 kHz stereo their new location. AIFF files by default. Recordings are saved in “My Documents\ Cancel: Cancel any changes. My Music\_Serato_\Recording” in Windows XP, “Libraries\Music\_Serato_\Recording” in Remove original
Sampling From Vinyl You can use the SL 3 interface to sample from vinyl or any other sound source. Click the Using LiveFeed LiveFeed triangle next to the record button to select from First locate the LiveFeed files in your library. Type Aux, Left (deck) or Right (deck) inputs. “livefeed” into the search box and you will see: LiveFeed - Rane SL 3 Aux In TIP: Remember that ctrl-n turns recording on LiveFeed - Rane SL 3 Aux In (Gated) -xx dB.
KEY Keyboard Shortcuts ctrl - L ctrl - R ctrl - F ctrl - A ctrl - C ctrl - E ctrl - V ctrl - X ctrl - Z shift - ctrl - shift - ctrl - These actions can be accessed directly from the computer keyboard. NOTE: Playback, cue and speed controls use Shift or Caps Lock. You can turn this off in the Setup screen. See “Playback Keys Use Shift” on page 31.
Hardware Playback USB Buffer Size (Latency) Track End Warning Scratch Live processes audio in small chunks. Enable this option to flash the Virtual Deck as When smaller chunks are used, the movement you approach the end of the track. The label will of the record is translated into audio more often, start flashing 20 seconds from the end of the which results in a lower overall system latency. record.
Vinyl Control Use Auto Gain Play From Start Auto gain enables you to set a uniform volume Enable this to start all tracks from the beginning level for the tracks in your library. When a track is when loaded in REL and INT modes. If this in auto gain mode, the track gain knob appears setting is not enabled, freshly loaded tracks will recessed. continue to play from the point the last track was Check this box to enable auto gain. Provided at. This option is on by default.
Drop To Cue Points (Relative Mode) Library Protect Library Uncheck this option to remove files and crates This option triggers the corresponding cue point from your library. Check this option to lock when the needle is repositioned into one of the your library and prevent accidental file or crate first five one-minute sections on the control vinyl. deletion while using Scratch Live.
Display Plugins Maximum Screen Updates SP-6 TIP: You can also use the keyboard shortcuts This slider allows you to throttle back the screen Use the check box to enable and disable the ctrl + and ctrl – to increase and decrease the refresh rate. Users with slower computers might SP-6 sample player plugin. The SP-6 is enabled font size. like to do this if they are having performance by default. Import AAC Files Turn this option off if you do not wish to import AAC files into your library.
The tracks are playing backwards! Troubleshooting and Frequently Asked Questions The inputs (from the turntables or CD players) are the wrong way around. Try swapping red and white wires at one end. I want to backup my library and crates or move them to another machine, so where are they stored? Your database and crates are stored in the folder Home\Music\_Serato_ on a Mac, and I can’t get the Scope View to show nice clean circles My Documents\My Music\_Serato_ in Windows Check your needles and make s
Corrupt File Descriptions and Diagnoses Corrupt file: This MP3 contains invalid frames. This MP3 contains frames which do not conform strictly to the official MP3 specification. Scratch Live can not be certain that this file will play back 100% accurately. Corrupt file: This file contains corrupt frames that may result in audible glitches. This file contains two or more contiguous corrupt frames. Since corrupt frames are replaced with silence, this could result in what might sound like an audio glitch.
Mixing With One Turntable Or CD Player This single turntable technique allows you to mix as if you had two turntables, using just one. If one of your turntables is not performing properly, or if you only have one available, you will be able to continue to mix the way you are used to. The following is a step-by-step description of how to perform a mix using only your right turntable or CDJ with the instant doubles feature. Menu Settings Go to the Setup menu, click on the Playback tab.
Scope Reading and Fixes Most of the problems that occur with Scratch Live can be attributed to it not getting a good reading of the control signal from your records or CDs. These examples show what the scopes on the setup screen can look like to help solve possible problems. Some problems cause similar looking scopes, e.g., if your scopes look like the Dusty Needle one, the cause could be a damaged needle. GOOD SIGNAL - Clean signal with 100% tracking.
RECORD BURN - This section of the control vinyl has LEFT CHANNEL MISSING - The signal from the needle RIGHT CHANNEL MISSING - The signal from the been worn. Swap sides or use the track start offset. is not reaching the SL 3. Check the cable and cartridge needle is not reaching the SL 3. Check the cable and connections. cartridge connections.
RANE SL 3 FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR’S MANUAL 2.
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Factory Authorized Service Your unit may someday need to be serviced by the Rane Factory if you live in the USA. International customers should contact your dealer or distributor for service. You must call the Rane factory before shipping. Please do not return your unit to Rane without prior authorization. Rane Corporation To obtain service or a Return Authorization in the USA, please phone 425-355-6000 or Fax 425-347-7757 Limited U.S.A.
Warranty Procedure - Valid in U.S.A. only NOTICE! You must complete and return the warranty card or register your product online to extend the Warranty from 2 years to 3 years! TO VALIDATE YOUR EXTENDED WARRANTY: Use the postcard that came in the box with your unit, or go to www.rane.com and click on New Product Registration. Fill out the warranty completely, being sure to include the model and serial number of the unit since this is how warranties are tracked. If your Rane product was purchased in the U.S.
RANE SL 3 FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR’S MANUAL 2.
