tRack gaIn
Use the track gain adjustment to balance
the volume of the tracks in your library.
Any adjustment made to the gain of a
track is saved with the file, and will be
reapplied to the entire track when it is
loaded again. The level meter shows the
level sent to the hardware interface after
both individual track gain and master
gain adjustment.
nOTe: For automatic gain setting of your
tracks,
See “USe AUTO GAin” On PAGe 26.
USB DROPOUT inDiCATOR
The USB dropout indicator
on the main screen is a
useful trouble shooting
tool if you have problems with audio dropouts.
Such dropouts are caused by an interruption in
passing the audio to the Scratch Live hardware
interface. If such an interruption (or dropout)
occurs, a red light will appear briefly, just to the
left of the Scratch Live logo at the top of the
screen. The light will be red for one second, and
then orange for four seconds.
if you do experience USB drop outs:
• Increase the USB audio buffer size
See “USB
BUFFeR Size (LATenCY)” On PAGe 26
.
• Try closing other applications that are running
at the same time as Scratch Live.
• Try turning off background tasks, for example,
wireless networking.
• If your CPU load is very high, try decreasing
the maximum screen updates.
See “MAXiMUM
SCReen UPDATeS” On PAGe 28.
ScRatch LIve
mOdeS
Scratch Live has three different modes of
operation. You can switch between these modes
by clicking the mode buttons near the Virtual
Deck.
ABSOLUTe MODe
abs
mode is the default mode, and most closely
resembles the properties of normal vinyl. The
beginning of the track is mapped to the start of
the record, and by picking up the tone arm and
moving the needle to another part of the record
(needle dropping) you can move to a different
position within the track.
abs
mode faithfully reproduces the movement
of vinyl control records, including stops, starts,
scratching, needle dropping, rubbing and other
turntablist techniques. When you reach the end
of the record using either rel or abs modes,
Scratch Live automatically switches to int mode.
This is known as Emergency Internal mode, and
prevents long tracks from stopping when you run
out of record. You can switch from Emergency
Internal mode to rel mode by lifting the needle
and placing it in the lead-in of the control record.
Emergency int mode will activate after 1 second.
Use the keyboard shortcut F1 (left deck) or F6
(right deck) to switch to abs mode.
nOTe: Be careful when scratching near the
end of the record not to accidentally go past
this point and into int mode, or the track will
no longer respond to record movement!
ReLatIve mOde
rel
mode observes the relative forward and
backward movement of the record, but does not
take into account the position within the record.
rel
mode disables needle dropping, but allows
skip-free scratching.
See: DROP TO ABSOLUTe POSiTiOn (PAGe 25)
rel
mode adds additional speed controls:
Previous track
– Go to the previous
track in the list.
Rewind
- The rewind function speeds
up the longer you press the button.
Fast forward
– The fast forward
function speeds up the longer you hold
the button.
next track
– Jump to the next track in
the list.
TiP: Use the keyboard shortcut F2 (left deck)
or F7 (right deck) to switch to rel mode.
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