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Allen & Heath User Guide for XONE:DX with Serato ITCH 1.6 4

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Summary of Contents for XONE DX

Page 1: ...Allen Heath User Guide for XONE DX with Serato ITCH 1 6 1 USER GUIDE Publication AP7820 ...

Page 2: ...nd tear The defective unit is to be returned carriage prepaid to ALLEN HEATH or its authorised agent with proof of purchase Units returned should be packed to avoid transit damage In certain territories the terms may vary Check with your ALLEN HEATH agent for any additional warranty which may apply This product complies with the European Electro magnetic Compatibility directives 89 336 EEC 92 31 E...

Page 3: ...oints 23 Looping 24 Beatgrid Sync Autotempo 26 Advanced Play Features 29 Effect Units 30 Effect Types 32 Direct Input 34 Software Overview 35 Main Screen Overview 43 Importing Music 45 Preparing Files 46 OrganisingYour Library 47 History 50 Recording and Auxiliary Inputs 52 Additional Setup 53 Whitelabel Audio Files 58 Troubleshooting and Support 59 Corrupt Files 60 MIDI ControlValues Mixer FX 61 ...

Page 4: ... following Safety Sheet Important Read this sheet before starting Retain for future reference Type A B USB Lead To connect the Xone DX to your computer Power Supply Fit the correct mains adap tor for your region Xone DX Professional DJ Controller Check that the rear panel optical out blank plug is fitted ...

Page 5: ... territory specific mains electricity outlets The power supply comes with a pin protector that needs to be removed before the de sired head can be fitted To remove the pin protector pull down on the release mechanism and pull the protector out from the bottom To attach the required head locate at the top first and then push down to locate and lock in the release mechanism ...

Page 6: ...ssor or better 1GB RAM 1024 x 768 screen resolution Service Pack 2 or higher Available USB2 0 Port Hard disk space for music WINDOWS VISTA Intel Processor Core Duo 1 8GHz processor or better 1GB RAM 1024 x 768 screen resolution Service Pack 1 or higher Available USB2 0 Port Hard disk space for music PLEASE NOTE The above is the minimum requirement to run ITCH For best performance and for use in pr...

Page 7: ...erato ITCH install CD into your computers CD drive and browse to it using Finder Or Browse using Finder to the location where the ITCH download installer was saved double click the ITCH dmg file to mount the image on your system and browse to that volume Then Double click the file called ITCH installer mpkg 1 The following screen will appear Click Continue 2 Accept the License Agreement and then c...

Page 8: ...ITCH will now be installed 6 A confirmation screen will appear when the install is complete STARTING THE SOFTWARE The ITCH software is installed in your applications folder To start ITCH double click the ITCH icon in your applications folder When the software launches ITCH will automatically detect the Allen Heath XONE DX if connected ...

Page 9: ... automatically if not Either Insert the Serato ITCH install CD into your computer s CD drive and browse to it using Windows Ex plorer Or Browse using Windows Explorer to the location where the ITCH download installer was saved un pack the ITCH zip file and browse to the extracted contents Then 1 The following screen will appear Click Continue 2 Accept the License Agreement and then click Continue ...

Page 10: ...will now be installed 7 A confirmation screen will appear when installation is complete STARTING THE SOFTWARE The ITCH software is installed in the following location WINDOWS XP Start All Programs Serato ITCH WINDOWS VISTA Windows Menu All Programs Serato ITCH To start ITCH browse your START menu and click the ITCH icon When the software launches ITCH will automatically detect the Allen Heath XONE...

Page 11: ...Allen Heath User Guide for XONE DX with Serato ITCH 1 6 11 PANEL DRAWINGS ...

Page 12: ...kets 2 BOOTH OUTPUT Booth Soundcard Output 3 4 output on RCA Phono sockets 3 AUX OUTPUT Auxiliary Soundcard Output 5 6 output on RCA Phono sockets 4 CUE BUS OUTPUT Cue Bus Soundcard Output 7 8 output on RCA Phono sockets 5 6 7 DIRECT INPUT SOCKET 3 5mm stereo jack socket for Direct Input see Page 34 6 CHASSIS EARTH TERMINAL A screw terminal is provided for connecting the earth straps from turntabl...

Page 13: ...o select Deck 3 input between PHONO and LINE 10 DECK 3 INPUT RCA Phono sockets for external connection to Deck 3 Soundcard Input 5 6 11 DECK 2 INPUT SELECT SWITCH Switch to select Deck 2 input between PHONO and LINE 12 DECK 2 INPUT RCA Phono sockets for external connection to Deck 2 Soundcard Input 3 4 13 DECK 1 INPUT RCA Phono sockets for external connection to Deck 1 Soundcard Input 1 2 14 11 12...

Page 14: ...48 88 2 and 96kHz are supported 16 MIDI IN OUT Connect to either a MIDI interface or directly to MIDI compatible equipment using a standard 5 pin DIN MIDI lead The MIDI output socket data duplicates what is sent via the USB connection to the PC Incoming MIDI is merged with the Xone DX MIDI and transported via USB to the PC or Mac Incoming MIDI data can also be used to remotely control the status o...

Page 15: ...x or to adjust the overall feel Start with the EQ controls set to their mid flat position then adjust to achieve the desired sound 2 MIC INPUT Balanced XLR Plug in a DJ guest or announcement microphone here Use a good quality low impedance dynamic mic such as those specifically designed for vocals Do not use high impedance or unbalanced microphones or condenser types which require phantom power Us...

Page 16: ...light on the chan nel meter is lighting up but is not permanently lit Setting the LEVEL so all tracks are metering in this manner makes it easy to balance the mix between them with the EQ and faders Pressing CUE on a channel will display the tracks volume on the master channel meters TIP Using this technique will allow you to bring any of the channel faders fully up making it impossible to push an...

Page 17: ... the headphones so that you can cue the track without it appearing in the main mix The headphone LEVEL knob controls The headphone volume You can balance the mix in the headphones between what is playing to the MASTER output and the CUE channel by selecting SPLIT CUE This will send the CUE signal to one headphone speaker and the MASTER output to the other THRU SHIFT MODE Holding SHIFT and CUE will...

Page 18: ...e Master output is provided by balanced XLR connectors and unbalanced Phono RCA connectors BOOTH the Booth control adjusts the Booth output level of the Xone DX This allows for adjustment of the DJ booth monitor speaker without altering the Master output level LIBRARY NAVIGATION See Page 19 HEADPHONE MONITORING PHONES LEVEL CONTROL adjusts the level of the signal sent to the head phones The headph...

Page 19: ...add the song selected in your library to the prepare panel Use the FWD button to move the cursor between adjacent columns in the browser view or to move through any browse field available VIEW Pressing VIEW will swap between library view and full virtual deck and waveform view MOUSE AND KEYBOARD As well as using the Xone DX control surface you can also use the cursor keys and mouse to navigate the...

Page 20: ...e the MP3 The track has been imported from the iTunes library The track has been imported from iTunes but is corrupt The track cannot be found Most likely the file has been renamed or moved ITCH is trying to import a track from the iTunes library but cannot find the file Tracks that are read only have a locked icon See CORRUPT FILES page 60 PREPARE The Prepare Panel is an area for holding tracks m...

Page 21: ...rt is selected on the setup screen the deck will try to skip any silence at the start of the track and play from the start of the audio See page 54 TEMPORARY CUE The temp cue function allows you to set a temporary cue point in a track that is not saved into the file This is useful for finding a point in a track and then being able to easily start again from this point as you get your mix right Whi...

Page 22: ...g and the SCRUB SKIP light is on the platters are in SCRUB SKIP mode If the loaded track has a beatgrid platter movements SKIP the playhead forwards and backwards whilst retain ing the synchronisation of the master clock Each full platter rotation will skip eight bars If the loaded track does not have a beatgrid platter movements SCRUB the audio just like when a track is paused PITCH The playback ...

Page 23: ...Your hotcue points are saved to the file and recalled the next time it is loaded They are not lost if the file is moved or renamed If you press and hold these keyboard shortcuts while the track is playing the cue point will be repeatedly triggered producing a stuttering effect TIP The rate of cue point stuttering is controlled by your operating system keyboard repeat rate set tings Windows users K...

Page 24: ...t MOVE buttons to shift the selected loop region to the left or right It will move the loop region the same distance as the length of the loop itself in the direction you select The loop region length will remain unchanged The loop will only be moved when it reaches its endpoint LOOP ROLL LOOP ROLL performs a standard auto loop but when the loop is turned off the playback position is re turned to ...

Page 25: ...of the IN or OUT points to fine tune your loop Holding SHIFT and pressing the OUT button will clear that out point Holding SHIFT and pressing the IN button will clear that in point STORING LOOPS You can store manual or auto loops for recall at a later stage To store a manual loop hold down SHIFT and press STORE LOOP to automatically store in the current slot To store an auto loop hold down SHIFT a...

Page 26: ...isions A thick red line will indicate a manually set Beat Marker BEFORE CREATING A BEATGRID Setting up a beatgrid relies on the track having an accurate BPM value calculated so ITCH can set the beatgrid markers on the track s beats or transients See page 46 for Analyzing Files NOTE The BPM analyzing has been greatly refined in ITCH 1 6 and later It is highly recommended that you force re analyze y...

Page 27: ...move the platter back and forth The beatgrid will expand or contract to follow your movements from your last set Beat Marker the red line When you are happy with the placement of the grid release the ADJUST button and you can stop moving the platter the grid will stay adjusted SLIP BEAT GRID If your beatgrid is sitting perfectly on the track s beats but the track s groove or feel is sounding sligh...

Page 28: ...ITCH features auto tempo Pressing SHIFT SYNC AUTO TEMPO for a deck will automatically match its tempo to that of the other track s BPM value Auto tempo requires a BPM value to be set for each track to work NOTE Using auto tempo is not as precise as using a beatgrid with SYNC With auto tempo you may find a BPM average slowly drifts out or your tracks don t sync to the start of bars MASTER CLOCK SLA...

Page 29: ...OCK QUARTZ button to turn QUARTZ LOCK on and off CENSOR Pressing the CENSOR button on the Xone DX reverses playback temporarily When released playback resumes from where the playhead would have been if censor was not pressed It is used to censor out portions of a track REVERSE Pressing SHIFT CENSOR will toggle reverse playback on CONTINUOUS AUTOPLAY Click the CONT button inside ITCH s virtual deck...

Page 30: ... for each effect Check the effects types on page 32 to see which parameter this controls for the chosen effect ON OFF Switches the effect ON and OFF The LED will illuminate when the effect is on TAP AUTO Tap mode is useful for when you are playing a track without BPM information or if you want to create a unique time division Pressing the TAP AUTO button in time with the beat will enter manual BPM...

Page 31: ...cts list inside ITCH pressing the ACTIVATE knob down to select FX CUE SHIFT Mode Pressing SHIFT and the SELECT EFFECT button will send the effected signal to audition on your head phones FX CUE is useful to audition the effect before bringing it into the mix when the effect is switched off When FX CUE is active the LED will flash NOTE FX CUE will be muted when using certain buffered effects ECHO a...

Page 32: ...where the user is able to control the warmth colour of the effected signal rather than a clean digital delay The level will increase as the effect wetness is increased until only the full wet delay is playing with no original signal LPF Low Pass Filter The Low Pass Filter acts like an equalizer that cuts the top end out of the frequency spectrum allowing only the audio below the filter cut off poi...

Page 33: ...set to REPEATER This effect repeats audio chunks similar to a loop roll function You can control Repeater mix depth the chance the playing audio stream will be repeated the count at which the audio section will be repeated for and the time of the audio division to be repeated REVERSER This effect reverses a section of the audio signal mixing it with the original audio You can control the depth of ...

Page 34: ... outputs MIX 1 2 BOOTH 3 4 in the event of a system failure The MIX output is attenuated before the balanced output stage so the position of the MIX Level control will not affect the level of the audio on the Direct Input socket SOUNDCARD HARD RESET The internal soundcard of the Xone DX can be reset by pressing the recessed button in the base of the unit The button is located to the right of the f...

Page 35: ...h Serato ITCH 1 6 35 SOFTWARE OVERVIEW The above screenshot displays the ITCH software To achieve a detailed overview the software GUI will be split into the following sections BROWSER LIBRARY EFFECTS MASTER SECTION DECKS WAVEFORM BEATGRID ...

Page 36: ... BROWSE Displays the Browse Panel which enables you to browse your library for tracks by genre BPM artist and album 3 PREPARE Displays the Prepare Panel which contains tracks you have pre selected for your set 4 HISTORY Displays the History Panel which contains tracks that have already been played 5 TOOL TIPS Enables or disables the Tool Tips Display which provides a dialogue box with a descriptio...

Page 37: ...ion 9 CRATE LIST Displays the list of Crates and Sub Crates available 10 CPU USAGE METER Shows overall CPU usage for your computer 11 SOFTWARE OVERVIEW BROWSER LIBRARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 10 SEARCH Searches your library for the text entered in this field 8 LIBRARY Displays the songs available in your current selection 9 10 CPU USAGE METER Shows overall CPU usage for your computer 11 ...

Page 38: ...elected audio sources 2 PARAMETER 2 INTENSITY The second parameter for the CURRENT EFFECT 4 TIME Displays the time division for the CURRENT EFFECT 5 AUTO A Displays which source tempo the CURRENT EFFECT is following Will show MASTER when a track is syncing to Master Clock 6 PARAMETER 1 MOD DEPTH The first parameter for the CURRENT EFFECT 3 CUE Displays if the effect is being sent to the headphone ...

Page 39: ...AY Displays tempos of all tracks to visually aid mixing 4 RECORDING TIMER Timer for current recording 5 RECORD BUTTON Starts stops recording 3 RECORDING FILENAME FIELD Filed for entering filename to save current recording 7 RECORD SOURCE SELECTOR Drop down menu to select recording source 8 RECORD GAIN Adjusts the level of the recording 10 SAVE BUTTON Saves the current recording to disk 6 RECORDING...

Page 40: ...s playback modes Single playback mode plays only one track stopping when it is finished Continuous playback mode will automatically play the next track in the crate when one track ends Whenever a new track is loaded the setting will remain the same 5 AUTOLOOP VALUE Shows the current autoloop setting in beats 3 REPEAT MODE Toggles repeat mode on or off for the track when playback mode is set to sin...

Page 41: ...ent value of the Pitch Range 8 TRACK TIME DISPLAY Displays the current position of the playhead in the track 10 BPM FIELD TAP BUTTON Displays the track s BPM You can click this field to tap out a time from which the software will approximate and save a new BPM If there is no BPM for the track it will display TAP to prompt you to tap out a suggested tempo 11 PITCH Applied pitch offset as a percenta...

Page 42: ...veform 1 WAVEFORM Waveform of the currently loaded track 2 BEATGRID BEAT MARKER A thick red line will indicate a manually set Beat Marker 3 4 5 6 BEATGRID BAR DIVISIONS Each bar is divided up into four thin line divisions 4 BEATGRID MARKER The beginning of each beatgrid bar 5 BAR NUMBER Each bar has the bar number at the top of the beatgrid marker 6 ...

Page 43: ... the track is reached you will hear silence CONT means when the end of the track is reached the next track in the playlist will commence If REPEAT is on when the end of the track is reached the track will return to the start and playback will continue Auto Loop displays the current loop slot For more on loops see page 24 TAP TEMPO If a track has no BPM information stored the tap tempo box is displ...

Page 44: ...ur coding to show the frequency of the sound red representing low frequency bass sounds green representing mid frequency sounds and blue representing high frequency treble sounds You can also switch to a 3 band spectrum view by holding the Ctrl key and clicking on the waveform Click and hold on the waveform to scrub or make fine adjustments to your position within the track The main waveform is zo...

Page 45: ...drive will not display in your library The library infor mation for files on your external drive is stored on the drive itself This means if you add tracks on an external drive to your library and then plug that external drive into another machine running ITCH the crates and tracks will automatically be visible in the other machine s library SHOWING YOUR ITUNES LIBRARY ITCH can import your iTunes ...

Page 46: ...s to avoid half or double BPM values being calculated For example You have a selection of house tracks that you guess are in the 120 130 BPM range Set the drop down range to 68 135 BPM setting the lower and upper limits That way when ITCH runs into a 120 BPM file it will know for sure that it is 120 BPM and not a half value of 60 BPM 60 BPM is lower than the set threshold of 68 BPM NOTE As Auto BP...

Page 47: ...more than one crate Hip Hop French Hip Hop UK Hip Hop Instrumental Hip Hop Old School Hip Hop Hip Hop Loops To make a new crate click the button To rename a crate double click the crate name You can change the order of tracks within a crate by dragging them up or down TIP The Protect Library option in the setup screen applies to removing editing and renaming crates Check this option to prevent cha...

Page 48: ...e second column in the library is the label colour for that track Click it to bring up a colour pal ette and customize the virtual deck for that track NOTE Tracks that are read only have a locked icon ALBUM ART MP3 files can contain album art To display this album art click the show album art button There are many third party applications available for adding album art to MP3s LIBRARY AUTO BACKUP ...

Page 49: ...ow up as not found and be displayed in red Drag and drop a folder from Finder Mac or Explorer Windows onto the relocate lost files button to search it and any sub folders for files currently marked as not found in your library Doing this will update the database with their new location NOTE Clicking the relocate lost files button will search all attached drives for missing files and can take some ...

Page 50: ...he end time of the session is displayed with the date in real time value PLAYTIME When viewing a track row the total played time of the track is displayed e g 00 03 00 When viewing a session row the total elapsed time of the session is displayed with date e g 10 09 08 01 38 16 DECK The virtual deck the track was played on will be displayed under the deck column In the track row either left or righ...

Page 51: ...sion information contained within csv to create a file for use in spreadsheet software m3u to create a playlist file which can be imported into media players Note that an m3u does not contain audio itself it only points to the location of your audio files Inserted tracks within sessions will not be included in an m3u playlist TIP To make a new ITCH crate containing your session information select ...

Page 52: ...d and click SAVE Recordings are saved in the recordings folder inside your main library folder If you forget to save a recording a temporary file will be saved to your Recordings Temp folder until you record again NOTE You can select the file format and bit depth for your recording in the playback tab of the setup screen AUXILIARY INPUTS The Allen Heath Xone DX features 4 stereo auxiliary inputs T...

Page 53: ... will launch your web browser and take you to http www serato com to tell you if there are updates available for your version of the ITCH software HARDWARE OPTIONS FIRMWARE Click the update firmware button to update your firmware if any update is displayed as available GENERAL USB BUFFER SIZE LATENCY ITCH processes audio data in small chunks When smaller chunks are used the movement of the platter...

Page 54: ...s option is on by default This option is overridden by instant doubles and play from first cue point options NOTE When play from start is selected on the setup screen the deck will try to skip any silence at the start of the track and play from the start of the audio INSTANT DOUBLES This allows you to quickly match the playhead position of the same file on each deck With this option set when you l...

Page 55: ...n be minimized by clicking the small triangle in the blue iTunes folder icon NOTE ITCH cannot play files that have been protected by Digital Rights Management systems such as those previously sold through the Apple iTunes Music Store PROTECT LIBRARY Uncheck this setting to remove tracks and crates from your library Enable to lock your library and pre vent accidental track or crate deletion Enablin...

Page 56: ...S This slider allows you to lower ITCH s screen refresh rate and potentially use less CPU Users with slower computers or those running a recording program at the same time might like to do this if they are having performance issues The default setting is 60 Hz or refreshed 60 times per second This setting applies to the entire ITCH user interface the Virtual Decks the Waveforms the library and the...

Page 57: ... Disables the cross fader EQ Gives you the option to select either 6DB or 12DB of gain for your equalizers OVERDRIVE MIX Turns up the mix output level HEADPHONE Turns up the headphone volume NOTE Adding overdrive can reduce audio quality so is only recommended if you are encountering problems with your output levels ...

Page 58: ...Whitelabel audio files and to sign up to receive up dates on the latest promotional releases visit http www whitelabel net Locked whitelabel net Files Due to some labels licensing requirements certain whitelabel audio files will require email and password verification to unlock them If you have legitimately downloaded these tracks yourself entering the email and password you use for whitelabel net...

Page 59: ... to a USB port on your computer not via a USB hub Try all USB ports some work better than others Unplug other USB devices Run your laptop connected to power supply For more troubleshooting help visit http www serato com itch SUPPORT SOFTWARE UPDATES AND ONLINE SUPPORT For ITCH software updates and online support visit the ITCH website http www serato com itch To help us with your support enquiry p...

Page 60: ...ncerned Please make sure this really is an audio file Unsupported file This MP3 contains multiple lay ers While scanning this file ITCH found frames belonging to multiple MPEG layers ITCH does not support MP3s that contain frames from multiple layers some frames may be output as silence Unsupported file This file is more than 2GB in size Self explanatory At the moment ITCH does not support files t...

Page 61: ...1 C0 Bb0 Eb1 CC17 CC4 CC7 CC25 CC1 CC19 CC24 CC10 CC2 CC5 CC23 CC26 CC18 CC20 CC9 CC11 CC22 CC21 G 1 A 1 C 0 D0 B0 C1 E1 F1 Bb 1 Eb0 C 1 F 1 E0 F0 F 0 G0 CC33 G 0 CC3 CC6 CC8 CC28 C2 CC13 G1 G 1 A1 B1 CC12 CC27 CC14 CC34 Bb 1 The MIDI messages transmitted from the MIXER and FX sections are as shown above All messages are transmitted on MIDI Channel 12 ...

Page 62: ...e same for both the left and right hand decks The messages are differenti ated by the MIDI Channel that they are transmitted on LAYER BUTTONS The behaviour of the layer button differs slightly to all of the other buttons within the virtual deck If the left deck is on the RED layer MIDI Channel 13 when the LAYER button is pressed its note message will be transmitted on Channel 14 This is to represe...

Page 63: ...In the case of a switch state a Note On message will turn an LED ON and the corresponding Note Off message will turn an LED OFF A Note On message with a velocity of zero is seen as a Note Off The messages that illuminate the LED s in the virtual decks are differentiated by MIDI Channel num ber PITCH DISPLAY The pitch display is controlled via a Control Change message where MIDI value 63 will be th...

Page 64: ...Allen Heath User Guide for XONE DX with Serato ITCH 1 6 64 R I A A ADC R I A A ADC ADC ADC MIC DAC DAC DAC DAC USB 2 0 BLOCK DIAGRAM Analogue Audio Digital Audio In Digital Audio Out MIDI In MIDI Out ...

Page 65: ...9 9 140 mm 5 5 470 mm 18 5 6 0kg 13 2 lbs Frequency Response SC in to SC out 96kHz Sample Rate 10 Hz to 20kHz 0 1 0dB 10 Hz to 30kHz 0 3dB THD N Line In to Line Out 8 dBu 0 008 Maximum Output Level Balanced 14dBu Maximum Output Level Unbalanced 8dBu Maximum Input Level 9dBu Dynamic Range Output 100dB System Dynamic Range Line In to Line Out 94dB Mic Sensitivity 50dBu to 30dBu RIAA Input Sensitivit...

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