Pioneer DJS - Manual (Page 4)

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DJS Ver. 1.000
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Table of Contents
About DJS ................................................................................................................................ 6
Getting Ready .......................................................................................................................... 6
1. Checking the Packaging .................................................................................................................................6
2. Installing DJS ...................................................................................................................................................7
3. Starting Up DJS .............................................................................................................................................12
Names of Each Screen.......................................................................................................... 14
Chapter 1 Getting the Most out of DJS............................................................................. 16
1-1 DJ System..................................................................................................................................... 16
Chapter 2 Mixing Songs..................................................................................................... 18
2-1 Using the Auto Function to Mix Songs .......................................................................................... 18
2-2 Mixing Songs Manually ................................................................................................................. 29
Chapter 3 Playing Sound ................................................................................................... 34
3-1 Adjusting the Sound Quality.......................................................................................................... 34
3-1-1 Making Changes
3-1-2 Cutting a Specific Range
3-2 Adding Effects ............................................................................................................................... 37
3-2-1 Effector Types and their Features
3-2-2 Adding Effects
3-2-3 Adjusting Effects
3-2-4 Turning Effects ON/OFF
3-3 Playing a Part of a Song Repeatedly ............................................................................................ 44
3-3-1 Setting up Loops (Play)
3-3-2 Getting out of a Loop
3-3-3 Playing a Loop you Set up Previously
3-4 Setting up to 8 Points to Start Playing (List Hot Cue) ................................................................... 47
3-4-1 Determining List Hot Cue Points
3-4-2 Playing from a List Hot Cue Point
3-5 Arranging Mixes of Songs ............................................................................................................. 51
3-5-1 Types of Mix Modes & Fader Curves and their Features
3-5-2 Selecting a Mix Mode or Fader Curve
3-5-3 Setting the Mixing Time (Beat)
3-5-4 Mixing Songs
3-6 Using the Fader Start Functions ................................................................................................... 54
3-6-1 Channel Fader Start
3-6-2 Cross Fader Start
Chapter 4 Useful Functions............................................................................................... 57
4-1 Setting up to 4 Points to Start Playing (Track Hot Cue) ................................................................ 57
4-1-1 Determining Track Hot Cue Points
4-1-2 Calling Out Track Hot Cues
4-1-3 Changing a Track Hot Cue into an Auto Setup Cue
4-2 Using Play Lists............................................................................................................................. 61
4-2-1 Auto-Playing a Play List
4-2-2 Changing the Order of Songs During Auto-Play
4-3 Checking Songs ............................................................................................................................ 63
4-4 Using the Auto Mix Function for Mixing Songs ............................................................................. 65
4-5 Key Operations ............................................................................................................................. 67
4-6 Operations used with DMP-555 .................................................................................................... 68
4-6-1 Connecting
4-6-2 Allocating the DMP-555 to a Player
Chapter 5 Creating Loops Made Easy .............................................................................. 70
5-1 Making a Loop............................................................................................................................... 70
5-2 Adjusting the Loop Range............................................................................................................. 72
5-3 Saving the Length of a Loop as a Track ....................................................................................... 73
5-4 Other Useful Functions (Create) ................................................................................................... 74