Rane TTM 57SL Manual for Serato Scratch Live 2.44 - Manual (Page 17)

RANE TTM 57SL MIXER FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR’S MANUAL 2.4.4 17
1. Start the track playing on the Right
Deck. After a few seconds, blue peaks
appear in the Tempo Matching display.
2. Adjust the pitch of the right turntable
until the blue peaks sit under the orange
peaks in the Tempo Matching display.
Once they are aligned, the two tracks
have the same tempo.
3. Next align the markers in the Beat
Matching display. Watch the color of the
items passing by in the Main Waveform
display. Remember that a kick or
bass drum will be red in color, and a
snare drum will be green or blue. This
technique will by no means guarantee
perfect mixes, but may help to speed up
the process of beat matching.
Master Gain
The master output of Scratch
Live can be controlled using the
master gain control at the top of
the screen. This adjusts the output volume
of all tracks played.Ctrl-click the knob to
reset it to 12 o’clock.
NOTE: For best results, set the master
gain to 12 o’clock, and adjust the
volume of individual tracks using the
track gain adjustment.
33 / 45 Speeds
Set this to match the speed
of your turntable for normal
playback.
Tracking Indicator
The tracking
indicators on the main screen show the
quality of the signal coming from the
control record or CD. The length of the bar
indicates the speed of the record or CD.
The color indicates the amount of position
information Scratch Live is receiving.
When you are playing the record at normal
speed, the tracking indicator should be
grey. If it is mostly red there is a problem
reading the control signal. Make sure
your needles are clean, and check the
calibration in the Setup screen.
NOTE: It is normal for the tracking
indicator to be red when cueing or
scratching.
Tap Tempo
For tracks with no BPM
information, there is a tap
tempo button displayed where
the BPM usually is, in the song
info area. Pressing alt-space bar activates
the tempo tapper (press alt-space bar a
second time to activate the tempo tapper
on the right Virtual Deck). Tap the space
bar along with the beat. After you’ve
tapped the first beat, you can switch to
double time tapping, half time, start of
each bar etc. The range is set by the first
two taps, after that you can switch to any
steady rhythm you feel comfortable with –
quarter notes, half note, whole notes. Esc
resets the BPM, Enter saves the BPM to
the track. You can use the mouse if you
prefer. Your CD player or turntable’s pitch
slider doesn’t need to be at zero, we do
the math for you. You can also use the
tempo tapper when no song is loaded,
for finding the BPM of regular records, for
example.
Key Lock
When Key Lock is on, the key or
pitch of the song stays locked at
what it would be if the track was playing
at normal speed, regardless of the platter
speed of the turntable or CD player. Key
Lock has scratch detection, so that it
automatically turns off when scratching for
a natural scratching sound. Turn Key Lock
on or off by pressing the button to the top
right of the Virtual Deck.
TIP: F5 and F10 will turn Key Lock on
and off for the left and right Decks
respectively.
Eject
This ejects the track playing or
loaded track from the Virtual Deck.
Repeat
Use the repeat function to repeat
the song across the entire length of
the control record.
TIP: Short “loop” samples can be
turned into a continuous track using
the repeat function. The loops must be
less than 10 seconds long, and cut at
the start and end of a bar.
Censor
Use the censor button to ‘mask’
parts of a song, or use as a special
effect. When you press the censor button,
the track starts playing backwards from
that point. When you release the censor
button, the track plays forward from the
point you would have been, had you not
pressed the censor button. Censor is
available only in REL and INT modes.
Autoplay
Click the Auto button to enable
autoplay. With this setting turned
on, when one track finishes playing, the
next track starts automatically. Load from
a crate to play through the songs in that
crate, or from your library to play through
your library. Autoplay works in both REL
and INT modes.
Play from start must be
checked in the Playback tab of the Setup
screen for autoplay to work correctly.
Reverse Input Control
Swaps the Program 1 input with
the Program 2 input of the TTM
57SL.
This transfers control over to the
alternate Virtual Deck. For example, the
physical record on the right hand side now
controls the left hand side virtual deck.
This essentially lets you continue mixing,
but just using one turntable.
See “Mixing
With One Turntable or CD Player” on
page 33.