Roland DJ-505 2-Channel, 4-Deck DJ Controller for Serato DJ - Manual (Page 15)

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Operating the DJ-505
Pattern Operations (PATTERN)
You can press the performance pads to switch TR-S patterns (p. 18).
1 Hold down the [SHIFT] button and press the [TR] button to
make the button light in green.
Pattern mode is selected.
Patterns are assigned to the performance pads as follows.
Pattern
1
Pattern
2
Pattern
3
Pattern
4
Pattern
5
Pattern
6
Pattern
7
Pattern
8
Press the [SHIFT] button to select patterns 9–16.
Pattern
9
Pattern
10
Pattern
11
Pattern
12
Pattern
13
Pattern
14
Pattern
15
Pattern
16
2 Press a performance pad, or hold down the [SHIFT] button and
press a performance pad, to select the pattern that you want
to play.
5 If you had been playing a pattern, the pattern finishes playing; then the
pattern that’s assigned to the performance pad that you pressed starts
playing.
5 By holding down a performance pad and pressing the performance
pad that you want to play next, you can play back the selected
performances consecutively.
TR Velocity Operations
The functionality is the same as in TR mode, but when you press a pad in
the upper row, the volume of the instrument changes depending on how
strongly you press the pad.
1 Press the [TR] button twice to make the button light in orange.
TR velocity mode is selected.
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2 Press a performance pad.
You hear the instrument. The volume of the instrument changes
depending on how strongly you press the pad. The stronger you press the
pad, the louder the instrument’s volume.
Serato Sampler Operations (SAMPLER)
You can use the performance pads to play songs (samples) that are loaded
into Serato Sampler’s sample slots.
1 In Serato DJ, click the [Sampler] key to access the Samples
panel.
2 Press the [SAMPLER] button to make it light in magenta.
Sampler mode is selected.
3 Use the PARAMETER [−] [+] buttons to switch the Serato
Sampler’s banks.
The Serato Sampler has four banks (A–D), and each bank has eight slots.
4 Drag and drop songs into the Sampler panel to load a sample
into each slot of the Sampler panel.
The sampler settings and the loaded samples are saved.
* You can also load a sample by using the rotary selector to select a
sample and then pressing a performance pad while holding down the
[SHIFT] button.
5 Press a performance pad.
The sample of the slot that’s assigned to the pad you pressed is played.
Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 Slot 4
Slot 5 Slot 6 Slot 7 Slot 8
* The type of playback changes depending Serato Sampler’s playback
mode. For details, refer to the Serato DJ owner’s manual.
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If you hold down the [SHIFT] button and press the performance pad,
sample playback stops.
Pitch Play Operations (PITCH PLAY)
The pitch of the loaded song can be changed in semitone steps.
1 Press the [SAMPLER] button twice to make the button light in
green.
Pitch play mode is selected.
2 Press a performance pad to change the pitch.
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Pitch is raised in semitone steps
Pitch is lowered in
semitone steps
Velocity Sampler Operations
The functionality is the same as in sampler mode, but when you press a
pad, the sample’s playback volume changes depending on how strongly
you press the pad.
1 Hold down the [SHIFT] button and press the [SAMPLER] button
to make the button light in purple.
Velocity sampler mode is selected.
2 Press a performance pad.
The sample of the slot assigned to the pad you press is played.
The more strongly you press the pad, the louder the sample’s playback
volume.
Slip Operations
If slip is on, the song continues to progress in the background even during
scratch play, loop playback, or hot cue playback.
When you cancel scratch play, loop playback, or hot cue playback, the song
playback resumes from the position to which playback had progressed
until that time.
This allows a variety of DJ performance techniques without stopping the
flow of the song.
1 Press the [SLIP] button to make the button light.
Slip mode is selected.
The button blinks while the song is progressing in the background.
Song Analysis
Song analysis begins when you press the DJ-505’s [LOAD] button to load
a song into a deck, but if you’re using Serato DJ as an offline player (i.e.,
without the DJ-505 being connected), you can analyze songs ahead of
time.
If analysis is finished for a song, the BPM and waveform are displayed
immediately after you load that song into a deck.
For details on how to analyze songs with the offline player, refer to the Serato DJ
owner’s manual.
* Depending on the number of songs, analysis might take some time.