User Manual

      
      
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pLaying muSic
Click on the “ ” 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.

        
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To start playing a track, simply put the needle on
the record and start the turntable. The track will
start playing as soon as it detects the signal from
the control vinyl (or CD).
In ABS mode, the track will play from the
position dictated by the placement of the
needle on the record. If you place the needle at
the beginning of the record, the track will start
playing from the beginning. You can skip through
the track by picking up the needle and placing
it further into the record, just as with regular
records (This is known as needle dropping). See

tRack diSpLay
When a track is loaded, the track name, artist
and length are displayed in the track title bar,
and the Virtual Deck shows a solid black line.
If the track has BPM or key information written
in the tag this will also be displayed. See ”Set
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pRepaRing yOuR
FiLeS
anaLyzing FiLeS
Before you play your music in Scratch Live, It is
important to rst analyze your les.
The analyze les function processes the
songs in your library to detect le corruption,
saves the waveform overview to an ID3 tag*, and
calculates auto-gain and BPM values.
hOW tO anaLyze FiLeS
To analyze les run Scratch Live with the SL 4
disconnected. On the left side of the main screen,
click the   button to automatically
build overviews for all the tracks in your library.

     

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If Scratch Live detects a corrupt le it
will tag it with a corrupt le icon:
It is very important that you delete
ANY corrupt les from your library as they can
cause Scratch Live to crash regardless if you
play the le or not. See “StatuS icOnS” On page
     
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The Serato Whitelabel Delivery Network is a
unique system that allows record labels to
digitally deliver promotional releases directly to
DJs.
To download Whitelabel audio les and sign
up to receive updates on the latest promotional
releases, visit whitelabel.net.
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Whitelabel.net audio les are a unique format
(le extension wl.mp3) developed by Serato.
They are specially prepared for use in Scratch
Live; pre-analyzed, tagged with song and artist
info, BPM and album art where possible.
Whitelabel audio les play as high quality 320
kbps stereo audio in Scratch Live when Rane
Scratch Live hardware is connected. Without
Scratch Live hardware connected, or when
playing these les through other mp3 software
and devices, they will play as low quality 32 kbps
mono audio.
Whitelabel audio les are promotional releases
from records labels available to Scratch Live DJs
for free from Whitelabel.net.
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