Rane Sixty Eight Operator'S Manual Download Page 3

MiniMuM SySteM RequiReMentS

• Available USB 2.0 port.
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution or higher.
• 2 GB RAM, more for a large library.
• Hard drive space for music: 5400RPM 

minimum, 7200RPM recommended for 
high resolution audio playback.

PC
• 2.2 GHz Intel Core Duo.
• Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or 

higher, or Vista with Service Pack 2 or 
higher, or Windows 7. We recommend 
Windows 7 over Vista. 

Mac
• 2 GHz Intel Core Duo.
• OSX 10.5.8 or higher.

PLEASE  NOTE:  These  are  the  minimum 
requirements  to  run  Serato  Scratch 
Live  without  optional  plugins.  For  best 
performance or when using optional plugins 
we  recommend  you  use  a  higher  spec 
computer. For more information please visit 

www.serato.com/scratchlive#minspecs

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CHECk LIST

These items are included in the box: 
• 1 Sixty-Eight Mixer.
• Scratch Live software install disc.
• 4 (four) control CDs in two sleeves.
• 4 (four) control records.
• 2 USB cables.
• IEC C5 line cord.
• Quick Start Guide.
• This manual.

WEAR PARTS

The Sixty-Eight Mixer contains no wear parts. 
The vinyl records and CDs are wear parts as 
described in ”Limited U.S.A. Warranty” on 
page 52.

IMPORTANT SAFETy INSTRUCTIONS

1. Read these instructions.
2. Keep these instructions.
3. Heed all warnings.
4. Follow all instructions.
5. Do not use this apparatus near water.
6. Clean only with a dry cloth.
7. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in 

accordance with manufacturer’s instructions.

8. Do not install near any heat sources such as 

radiators, registers, stoves, or other apparatus 
(including amplifiers) that produce heat.

9. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized 

or grounding type plug. A polarized plug has two 
blades with one wider than the other. A grounding-
type plug has two blades and a third grounding 
prong. The wide blade or third prong is provided for 
your safety. If the provided plug does not fit into your 
outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the 
obsolete outlet.

10. Protect the power cord and plug from being walked 

on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience 
receptacles, and the point where it exits from the 
apparatus.

11. Only use attachments & accessories specified by 

Rane.

12. Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or 

table specified by the manufacturer, or sold with the 
apparatus. When a cart is used, use caution when 
moving the cart/apparatus combination to avoid 
injury from tip-over.

13. Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or 

when unused for long periods of time.

14. Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. 

Servicing is required when the apparatus has been 
damaged in any way, such as power supply cord or 
plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects 
have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has 
been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate 
normally, or has been dropped.

15. The plug on the power cord is the AC mains 

disconnect device and must remain readily operable.

16. This apparatus shall be connected to a mains 

socket outlet with a protective earthing connection.

17. When permanently connected, an all-pole mains 

switch with a contact separation of at least 3 mm 
in each pole shall be incorporated in the electrical 
installation of the building.

18. If rack-mounting, provide adequate ventilation. 

Equipment may be located above or below this 
apparatus, but some equipment (like large power 
amplifiers) may cause an unacceptable amount of 
hum or may generate too much heat and degrade 
the performance of this apparatus.

WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, 

do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. 
Apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or 
splashing and no objects filled with liquids, such as 
vases, shall be placed on the apparatus.

INTRODUCTION

Please read through these operating instructions 
so you will know how to get the most from 
your Sixty-Eight and the included Scratch Live 
software. Keep this manual in a safe place. If you 
ever lose it, a new copy may be downloaded at  

rane.com/sixtyeight.html

  To keep up with the latest tips, and to check 
for Scratch Live software updates, visit the 
Official Scratch Live Forum at 

serato.com

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COPyRIGHT NOTICES

© 2010 Rane Corporation. All rights reserved. Scratch 
Live and the Scratch Live logo are trademarks of 
Serato Audio Research. Trademarked in the U.S. 
and other countries. Licensed exclusively to Rane 
Corporation. This software is based in part on the 
work of the Independent JPEG Group, and uses libpng 
code, copyright © 2000-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson. 
The Scratch Live Control Tone, the audio pressed on 
Scratch Live Control vinyl and Control CDs, is copyright 
©2004-2010 Serato Audio Research. The Control 
Vinyl and Control CDs are licensed for personal use 
only. The creation of personal backups of the Control 
CD is allowed, however duplicating Control CDs for 
commercial benefit is strictly prohibited. For avoidance 
of doubt the duplication or creation of Control vinyl 
for any use is strictly prohibited. Please respect our 
copyright. Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 
is either a registered trademark or a trademark of 
Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or 
other countries. Apple, Mac, Macintosh and iTunes are 
trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the 
US and/or other countries.

WARNING

To reduce the risk of electrical shock, do not open the 
unit. No user serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing 
to qualified service personnel. The symbols shown 
below are internationally accepted symbols that warn 
of potential hazards with electrical products.

This symbol indicates that there are 
important operating and maintenance 
instructions in the literature 
accompanying this unit.

 
This symbol indicates that a dangerous 
voltage constituting a risk of electric 
shock is present within this unit. 

These stickers are located on the bottom of the mixer.

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT OPEN

CAUTION

RANE SIXTY-EIGHT 

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 SERATO SCRATCH LIVE •

 OPERATOR’S MANUAL 

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Summary of Contents for Sixty Eight

Page 1: ...RANE SIXTY EIGHT FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE OPERATOR S MANUAL 2 2 SIXTY EIGHT TWO COMPUTERS TWO USB PORTS FOUR DECKS AND A RANGE OF EFFECTS...

Page 2: ...RANE SIXTY EIGHT FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE OPERATOR S MANUAL 2 2 2...

Page 3: ...ain readily operable 16 This apparatus shall be connected to a mains socket outlet with a protective earthing connection 17 When permanently connected an all pole mains switch with a contact separatio...

Page 4: ...17 How to Analyze Files 17 About Corrupt Files 17 Playback Control 18 The Control Record 18 The Control CD 18 Vinyl Scroll 18 Set Auto BPM 18 The Offline Player 18 Main Screen Overview 19 Virtual Deck...

Page 5: ...Connection 36 DJ Handover 36 Keyboard Shortcuts 37 Additional Setup 38 Hardware 38 USB Buffer Size Latency 38 Updating Firmware 38 Input Select Status 38 Headphone Tone 38 Flashing Deck Indicator 38...

Page 6: ...ed TRS tip ring sleeve plug or an unbalanced TS tip sleeve plug Mic 1 has a switchable phantom power option and Mic 2 has a switchable line level option Analog Outputs All analog outputs come from the...

Page 7: ...EXFX CROSSFADER POST PH CD AUX PGM 2 SOURCE 2 1 2 1 1 2 A B CUE LEVEL MID HIGH LOW FILTER FLEXFX CROSSFADER POST PH CD AUX PGM 3 SOURCE 4 3 4 3 3 4 A B CUE LEVEL MID HIGH LOW FILTER FLEXFX CROSSFADER...

Page 8: ...4 8 6 10 0 2 4 8 6 10 0 2 4 8 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 1 2 3...

Page 9: ...ich of the Virtual Decks the control strips are in command of Pressing this button toggles between the assigned Primary and Secondary Deck Layers as chosen in Scratch Live See Primary Secondary Deck L...

Page 10: ...rnal analog effects and external USB effects applied in any combination It is possible to cue and control the level of this auxiliary mix in the Main Mix This architecture is very flexible and not at...

Page 11: ...p bypass Six built in effects Filter Flanger Phaser Hold Echo Robot Reverb General Behavior The effect time is saved for each effect Changing BPM for one effect changes the BPM for all effects Tapping...

Page 12: ...selector USB 3 Playback Virtual Deck Three PGM 3 Source selector PGM 4 Source selector USB 4 Playback Virtual Deck Four PGM 3 Source selector PGM 4 Source selector USB 5 Playback is the RETURN on the...

Page 13: ...ive icon to your dock for quick launching 3 Plug either USB port from your Sixty Eight to a computer USB port No extra hardware or driver installation is required Windows It is important that Windows...

Page 14: ...r and double clicking on the application You can also do this if you have already installed the latest version just rename the application eg to Scratch Live 2 1 1 and then reinstall the earlier versi...

Page 15: ...e Threshold A threshold is a lower limit below which a process will not occur In the case of Scratch Live the noise threshold is the limit below which the input signal will not be interpreted as contr...

Page 16: ...net audio files see Whitelabel net on page 17 NOTE Older iTunes Music Store DRM files cannot be played back by Scratch Live iTunes Plus files are DRM free Playing Music Click on the All icon to show a...

Page 17: ...ixty Eight disconnected On the left side of the main screen click the Analyze Files button to automatically build overviews for all the tracks in your library TIP You can drag and drop individual fold...

Page 18: ...trol CD to access Vinyl Scroll Find the track you want to load and go back to track 1 The track you selected will be loaded and ready to play You can reverse the direction of Vinyl Scroll and set the...

Page 19: ...peaks for the track on the left side above a row of blue peaks for the track on the right side in the Tempo Matching display area When the two tracks are matched to the same tempo the peaks will line...

Page 20: ...rmation 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 t...

Page 21: ...tion displayed In Library Mode only the track information Virtual Deck mode track overview display and meter are displayed TIP Use the space bar to toggle between Library Mode and your current display...

Page 22: ...al mode to ABS mode by lifting the needle and placing it in the lead in of the control record Emergency Internal mode will activate after 1 second Use the keyboard shortcut F1 left deck or F6 right de...

Page 23: ...There is a temporary cue point that can be used like the cue button on many DJ CD players Press ctrl I to set this temporary cue point on the Left Deck and ctrl K to set it on the Right Deck This tem...

Page 24: ...ing the shortcut keys ctrl 1 through 0 Customizing Cue Points The colors of cue points can be changed at any time To change the color of a cue point click on the colored square and choose a new color...

Page 25: ...ttons as laid out on screen ie if the onscreen buttons display 1 2 4 8 16 bar loops alt 1 triggers 1 bar loop and alt 5 triggers a 16 bar loop Loop Roll Loop roll performs a standard auto loop but whe...

Page 26: ...n slot 6 to trigger each sample respectively SP 6 Instant Doubles You can instant double from the Virtual Decks down to the SP 6 from the SP 6 up to the Virtual Decks and also between the sample slot...

Page 27: ...olume of the loaded sample The gain adjustment will also be written to the track s ID3 tag meaning that it will be the same everytime you load it SP 6 Output Selector Use the master output selector bu...

Page 28: ...ttons Each Deck can only pass through one FX unit at a time Show Parameters Press the Show Parameters button to expose the individual parameters for each effect You can then control the individual par...

Page 29: ...to the mouse If you need to change a control using the mouse disable MIDI assign mode MIDI Platters The Scratch Live Virtual Decks are not user assignable to MIDI control MIDI devices with platters on...

Page 30: ...t back from the recycle bin trash Crate files have the extension crate Subcrates You can drag and drop crates into other crates to make subcrates If you drag a crate to the very left of the crate pane...

Page 31: ...fields are currently being used Press esc or the x button on the right of the search box to clear the search TIP Use the keyboard shortcut ctrl f to jump to the search box This keyboard shortcut will...

Page 32: ...ck information NOTE We recommend that you turn off any wireless networking devices when using Scratch Live If you export your playlist online whilst playing you may experience USB dropouts If so you m...

Page 33: ...he track has been imported from the iTunes library The track has been imported from the iTunes library and Scratch Live has detected some corruption in the MP3 file Solution If possible re encode the...

Page 34: ...ntrols 2 Choose the Input Source by clicking on the downward arrow icon to get the drop menu 3 Click the red record icon to start recording 4 The record icon flashes while recording and the display sh...

Page 35: ...t right arrow to the Right Deck NOTE Recording files are automatically split when the recording exceeds 3 hours 16 bit or 1 hour 50 minutes 24 bit See Recording Bit Depth on page 38 Sampling From Viny...

Page 36: ...channel for you to take over See USB Sources Analog Inputs on page 19 2b USING TWO CONTROL SOURCES Unassign the USB Source for the non playing Virtual Deck on Computer A Then have Computer B assign th...

Page 37: ...te the file from your library and send to the recycle bin Note to iTunes users files in your iTunes library cannot be deleted this way ctrl shift Toggle the input reverse switch esc Clear search strin...

Page 38: ...ect value Headphone Tone These controls adjust the Low and High tone controls to the headphone outputs Flashing Deck Indicator Displays a flashing white border around the Virtual Decks which currently...

Page 39: ...Doubles This option allows you to quickly match the playhead position of two tracks With this option enabled when you load the same file on one Virtual Deck that is already loaded on the other Virtua...

Page 40: ...o the file information of tracks in your iTunes library will not appear in iTunes until after you play the track Scratch Live cannot play files that have been protected by Digital Rights Management sy...

Page 41: ...orms the Library and the SETUP screen Audio Cache Use this slider to set the amount of audio that is loaded into memory A small audio cache will place less load on your computer and the tracks will lo...

Page 42: ...e USA The first time I play a new track it takes a while to load Scratch Live has to read the entire file and create a file index overview the first time it is loaded This may take a few seconds for l...

Page 43: ...an audio file Unsupported file This MP3 contains mul tiple layers While scanning this file Scratch Live found frames belonging to multiple MPEG layers Scratch Live does not support MP3s containing fr...

Page 44: ...rom the speakers CD PLAYER INTO PHONO INPUT The Sixty Eight is set to receive a phono level input Switch to the correct Line setting on the Sixty Eight PHONO INTO LINE INPUT The Sixty Eight is set to...

Page 45: ...h Live is unable to track correctly Swap sides or get new vinyl ASAP LEFT CHANNEL IS NOISE Left signal has been lost with a noisy loose connection RIGHT CHANNEL IS NOISE Right signal has been lost wit...

Page 46: ...le turntable technique allows you to mix as if you had two turntables using just one If one of your turntables is not performing properly or if you only have one available you will be able to continue...

Page 47: ...XFX BEAT TIME TAP MIC 2 MONO LOOPS SELECT SAVE 4 3 2 1 CUE POINTS 5 ROLL AUTO MANUAL IN LOOP OUT LOOP DELETE MIC 1 PHASER FLEXFX FLEXFX FLANGER ROBOT ECHO REVERB POST SCROLL LOAD A LAYER SHIFT BACK LO...

Page 48: ...back and forth to distribute lubricant E Do not bend the torsion spring Do not disturb the position of the small sensors at each end of the Fader If you accidentally do make sure the parts are standin...

Page 49: ...onnectors of the three white and blue wires 8 Slide out the fader assembly completely 9 The channel faders are mounted in pairs Remove the four screws for each pair of faders 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 0 The...

Page 50: ...d A2 Record A3 Record A4 HP FILTER HP FILTER Record PGM 1 Record PGM 2 Record PGM 4 Record Main Mix Return Send METER A D PGM 1 PGM 2 PGM 3 PGM 4 FlexFx Loop MICS SC 2 Record SC 3 Record SC 1 Record S...

Page 51: ...sional Audio Signal Processing BRAND Rane Model Sixty Eight Immunity Results THD N 4 dBu 400 Hz BW 20 Hz 20 kHz Test Description Measurement Conditions RF Electromagnetic Fields Immunity 80 MHz 1000 M...

Page 52: ...ED TO THE ORIGINAL RETAIL PURCHASER BY THE AUTHORIZED RANE DEALER OR DISTRIBUTOR AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE Rane Corporation does not however warrant its products against any and all defects 1 arising ou...

Page 53: ...hased in the U S AT THE RANE FACTORY IN THE U S If the product is being sent to Rane for repair please call the factory for a Return Authorization number We recommend advance notice be given to the re...

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