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Atomix Productions Virtual DJ - 8.0 User's Guide

1. o gt gt SS O 5 O e e O OVERLAY ri OVERLAY gt Pl VIDEO TS TEXT i e video overlays text overlays Source File Dancer Animation film 1 v _ Stretch C Repeat How to overlay more than one video over a track Click on the button to load more video files Each time a video file is selected from the Source drop down list it will be displayed on the bottom video area Use the mouse to select create the area red one of the original track that you wish the video to overlay You can resize and move that area and even zoom in out using a wheel TJ OVERLAY VIDEO button to mouse to be more precise Once the area is selected click on the apply the video to that area Repeat the same procedure to overlay more videos Use Repeat or and Stretch to extend the video if the selected area is larger than the overlaid video VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 70 Video Editor VIDEO EDITOR Dancer Animation film 1 Dancer Animation film 2 5 ae Lele Save TrackEdit PS Pl N Filename iam Burn The Disco Bro Safari Rernix vdjedit m Ti HA Title Burn The Disco video overlays text overlays Source File ay Artist Felix Da Housecat ft will i am Dancer Animation film 2 y E Remix Bro Safari Rernix Stretch Repeat Use the button to delete the selected overlaid video from the original track P Use the m co
2. Loop lt 8 gt E e KEYB Synth 1 Il em mes Loop 4 beais g 14 HiHat 4 15 Synth Melo gt Sampler Trigger Pad View Sampler List View Sampler Banks The Sampler can have unlimited banks and each bank can have up to 64 samples Use the arrow buttons to navigate through the available banks or click inside the name box to get a list with all the available banks Choose New from the menu to create a new Bank To delete or rename a Bank expand the Sampler folder in the Folders list and right click on a Bank EIMy Videos 3 Sampler Audio Instruments ey Recordings Video a gt gt Tremis mode AUDIO Fx FAMOUS died N PYAUDIO FX FAMOUS SINSTRUMENTS Wo meee OR FIVIDEO amp SRA TU Sampler Banks List ContentUnlimited oot Rename Delete a Bank VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Add and remove Samples Drag any Sample Audio or Video file s from the Songs List and drop it them to the Sampler area The file s will be automatically added to the selected Bank To remove a Sample right click on a Sampler in List View or CTRL Click in Trigger Pad view and choose Remove Sampler Groups Samples can be organized into Groups Only one Sample can be triggered from one Group each time If you trigger a sample and another one from the same Group is playing at that time the first one will stop and the second one will start playing To assign a Sample to a Group right click
3. User s Guide NN Clone The Clone area of Sideview is a temporary FAVORITE AUDIO TRACKS clone of a folder Title Artist Remix E Work Bitch Britney Spears Oniginal Mix drop into the Clone area of Sideview or FF Demons Imagine Dragons l l l E Tremor Clockwork Hardwell F simply click on the button while a folder Fi The Illest Far East Movement f Explicit is selected The content and the name of fF Burn The Disco Felix Da Housecat ft w Bro Safari that folder will be then displayed FF Sweet Child O Mine Guns N Roses Eyecon Tr 2 E High You Are What So Not Animals Martin Garrix Original Mix 8 l l l l S Timber Pitbull ft Ke ha Rihab Re To keep this folder into the Sideview area E Epic Sandro Silva amp Quintino Luminox F and quickly have access choose Add E Crunk showtek Original Mix Shortcut from the Sideview Options An Ei Booyah ido A Fr Boneless steve Aoki Chris Lake Steve Aok additional button will be then displayed on the bottom toolbar for this folder Choose Remove the shortcut from the same menu to remove this clone view from the Sideview Clone Shortcut Add as many shortcuts as you wish Resize the Sideview area to see all of your created shortcuts in the bottom toolbar JET Add a shortcut Field Sideview Options Shortcuts Notes The Add shortcut option will not be available if a folder is already a shortcut The Remove shortcut will only be avail
4. oF za INTERNAL o SPEAKER ONLY TWO SOUNDCARDS EE J j Q SPEAKER A STEREO TO MONO HEADPHONE SPLITTER 0 i EXTERNAL MIXER la Source Sound ard Channel master Realtek High Definition Audio VWASAPT Chan iz E LICENSES headphones USB Audio Device Chan1 2 x gt BROADCAST Speakers amp Headphones with USB sound card Audio Setup b Your computer has a single stereo output and you wish to listen to the Master Output though external amplified speakers In this case a Y Splitter cable adaptor Stereo to 2 Mono Outputs is required Connect the cable to your computer s sound output and one end to your speakers and the other to Headphones VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NN Connections Speakers amp Headphones with Y Splitter Connections Audio Setup Select the SPEAKER HEADPHONE and STEREO TO MONO SPLITTER options VirtualDJ will then route the Master Output to the 1st mono channel and Headphones to the 2nd mono channel of your computer s built in sound card Click APPLY AUDIO SETTINGS OUTPUT 9 INTERNAL SPEAKER ONLY pe TERMAL TWO SOUNDCARDS Q SPEAKER STEREO To MONO HEADPHONE h ttil EXTERNAL MIXER MICROPHONE TIMECODE SIGNAL LINE INPUT Source SoundCard Channel master v Realtek High Definition Audio WWASAPH v Chan1 mono v X A headphones w Realtek High Definition Audio 0NASAPI w Chan 2 mono v X de Yv Speakers amp Headphones with Y Splitter Audio se
5. Flip 3D Flip Scrolls DoubleWindow FlatCube Mac version None Alpha Zoom Wipe Strobo Scratch Cut TimeCut Window Cube Fade Satelite Flip 3D Flip Scrolls DoubleWindow FlatCube VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 27 Video Crossfader 2 DECKS Use the Video Crossfader to mix the Video Output of the decks If the Video Crossfader is at the far left side only the Video from the left deck will be displayed on the Master Video Output If the Video Crossfader is at the far right side only the Video of the right deck will be displayed on the Master Video Output At any other position the Videos will be mixed depending on the selected Video Transition Video Crossfader 2 Decks 4 amp 6 DECKS Use the Video Crossfader to mix the Video Output of the left and right assigned decks 1 2 SM Use the video crossfader assign buttons to assign a deck as left or right side to the video crossfader If none is selected the selection will automatically follow the left and right decks as selected from the relevant buttons on each deck Auto mode Right click on any of these buttons to get the auto mode back If the Video Crossfader is at the far left side only the Video of the left assigned deck will be displayed on the Master Video Output lf the Video Crossfader is at the far right side only the Video of the right assigned deck will be displayed to the Master Video Output At any other position
6. Prelisten Player An additional menu option will be offered if no Master or Headphones are BRITNEY SPEARS configured in the Audio Setup External NE Mixer setup In this case choose Automatic if you want VirtualDJ to output the Prelisten Player to the selected deck or choose any of the available Outputs if you wish to send Remix Original Mix the Prelisten Player to a specific Deck Prelisten Output for External Mixer Setup Output Mo Show prelisten control le w Automatic Prelisten on b Output 1 Fields Output 2 J LS Note By default the Prelisten Player will continue to play if the selected track is changed until the player is stopped This behavior can be changed from Options VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 46 B DATABASE One of the most advanced and important features of VirtualDJ that you should dedicate time is the VirtualDJ Database A well organized Database Music Library is essential to get advantage of the unique features of VirtualDJ Browser features Search Database The Browser area offers a Search input box on the top This is used to search and find tracks within your Music Library without browsing within the folders In order Search to provide proper results you will need to add your Music Library to the Search Database of VirtualDJ How to Expand My Computer Root My Music element in the Folders list and My Videos ae 7 E Batch b Analyze for BPM etc right cli
7. VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Top Section Application Controls amp Info Top section Left side Top section Right side Application Controls amp Logo On the left side the logo of VirtualDJ is displayed On the right side a Close button to shut down the application along with minimize and maximize buttons are offered The layout of these buttons is reversed on Mac OS computers The maximize buttons offer 3 states Fully maximized Application covers the whole screen Semi maximized Application covers the whole screen but leaves the bottom taskbar visible Windowed Application is displayed in a smaller resizable and movable window Click on M O button to open the Settings of VirtualDJ Q E x VirtualDJ logo Settings amp Applications buttons System Information On the top left side a Clock is available along with some A information about the CPU System CPU use all softwares running right now usage Click on the Time text System 14 1 Audio 00 7 to toggle between 12 and 24h Clock amp CPU usage time format The progress bar of the CPU indicates the CPU usage for all applications running at that time on your computer Hover mouse to see information about the Sound card interface usage VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide sl Layout amp Mode Click on the Ba ution to select how many decks you wish VirtualDJ to display Toggle between the Keyboard and the Tablet Mode using the 2 MODE buttons
8. needle drop The track just pauses when the timecode stops and it starts again when there is timecode signal in the soundcard s inputs Play pause VirtualDJ still responds to pitch changes and scratch when performed from the timecode player but not in loops and HotCues However Sync loops and hot cues work perfectly when performed from the software Pitch change and Sync from the software are not allowed in this mode The Smart mode is the default and preferred mode in VirtualDJ because it combines the best of the absolute and relative modes VirtualDJ responds to playback position changes needle drop pitch changes scratch Sync HotCues and Loops when performed from either the timecode player or the software Starting the timecode from the beginning also restarts the loaded track in VirtualDJ Unless there are specific needs smart mode should be the preferred mode for most users Tip Timecode input numbers are linked with the VirtualDJ deck numbers To assign a Timecode control to deck 3 and 4 when a 4 deck skin is used timecode inputs 3 and 4 must be used However these timecode inputs can be assigned to any available physical soundcard input VirtualDJ allows up to 8 Timecode inputs and timecode controlled decks at the same time if the audio card has the required inputs and outputs channels However a typical Timecode setup will include 2 timecode inputs A multi channel USB sound card with at least 4 Outputs and 4 In
9. the Videos will be mixed depending on the selected Video Transition Video Crossfader 4 Decks Double click to bring the video crossfader to middle position Enable LINK if you want the Video Crossfader to follow the Audio Crossfader and control both with one fader Enable AUTO if you want the Video Crossfader to automatically follow the deck that the audience is hearing Note The strength of the Video Output depends on the level of the Volume Faders This behavior can be disabled from the Options Scratch mixer 6 DECKS 2 DECKS 4 DECKS The SCRATCH panel offers mixing controls such as GAIN knobs Volume Faders Audio Crossfader and PFL selection buttons see Audio Mixer along with Multi colored waveforms and other features VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EN MN mixer E nse SCRATCH 6 MASTER IN mixer a vineo scratcu MASTER a i A Scratch mixer 2 amp 6 Decks Scratch mixer 4 Decks Waveforms Displays useful information about the structure of the track frequencies Different colored variations are offered from the Options Monochrome UltraBlue view Infrared view PerDeck view view view Use the Zoom buttons or a mouse wheel to zoom in out to the Waveform Clone Deck Click on the buttons to clone the left right deck to the right left one If the cloned track is playing it will also start the other deck if paused it will synchronize both decks Beatlock Enable B
10. the default zooming value Use the S button to save your custom zooming value and the R button to recall it Zoom Slider Zoom buttons Beat keeper amp phrase indicator The Beat keeper indicates on which beat of the 4 beat bar the track is on MAS DIC On the sides extra beat counters are 4 Decks offered based on the 16 beat phrase of each track 2 amp 6 Decks Deck Controls Drag and drop a track from the Browser into a virtual Deck dropzone area Once the track is loaded the track info will be displayed and all deck controls will be available Press the button to start playing the track Track Info Display PAD 30 6 DECKS Once a track is loaded to a deck the track s Info such as Artist Title Time Remain Elapsed and Total Cover BPM Key and Gain will be displayed in this area The track will be analyzed and the song position progress will be displayed VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 10 Click on the Remain Elapsed Total Time display to get the desired Time View PA A A Use the BEA ction to manually calculate the BPM of the track Right click on the button to open the BPM Editor to perform more advanced and precise Tempo and Beat Phase corrections if required See BPM Editor Click on the Cover of the track to open the Tag Editor to view and edit all the available info of the track Key Control Click on the Key text to get its value into 3 different SAIN 0 0 dB KEY 018 Y views
11. when mixing a track at the time of an intro where the beat is not yet present Waveform Rhythm amp CBG In the picture above you can see that the beats are completely synchronized It is easy to see that the peaks beats of the music are lined up However some music does not have VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EA the very obvious single beat peaks that most house and techno music has This is when the CBG is very useful If you look at the following graphics it is not exactly clear where the beats should sync up by just observing the waveform visually However with the help of the CBG it becomes much easier to synchronize the two tracks Not beat matched CBG not aligned Beat matched CBG not aligned Beat matched CBG aligned Additional waveform displays can be selected Click on the KA button to receive a menu with the available options 2 DECKS 3 different views are offered in the 2 Deck layout to choose from Default Inverted and Scratchwave Extended Grid lines can be Inverted wave Horizontal scratch wave added to the first 2 by selecting the Show extra gridlines option Show extra gridlines Waveform Selection menu 2 Decks Default waveform 2 Decks Inverted waveform 2 Decks TERCER l Horizontal scratchwave 2 Decks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide al 4 DECKS 6 different views are offered in the 4 Deck layout to choose from Defa
12. 8 User s Guide 67 Example Type a name in the Genre filed if you wish all the tracks of your selection to get the same Genre or a number in the Year field if you wish all the files to get the same Year Choose OK to apply the changes on the VirtualDJ Database fields Notes Batch Tag edits is not supported Batch CoverArt e g to provide the same Art Cover to the entire album will possibly not provide any good results as the Search in the Internet Sources is based on the first track of your selection It is suggested to click on the Tag of the Cover and select a File from your Hard Drive Write Tags can be activated as default in Options if file type supports D3Tags Track Cleaner The Track Cleaner will allow you to remove censor or stretch repeat parts of your tracks Right click to any of your tracks in the Browser and choose to open the Track Cleaner Track Cleaner EN TRACK CLEANER Guns N Roses Sweet Child O Mine Eyecon Trap Remix 1 a codi O Dp any t be censor X REMOVE STRETCH om How to Pi m Use the rs to play pause stop the track at the desired position Use a wheel mouse to zoom in out and the top scroll bar to navigate through the track for more precise edits Select the operation you wish to apply censor Choose if you wish to create a part of your track that will play backwards censored X REMOVE Choose if you wish to delete a part of your track
13. A special Tablet skin is offered with similar features but with much large buttons mainly for touch screen users 2 Decks only 2 DECK MIXER YV MOE 2 DECKS A Optimize interface for use with a touchscreen tablet 6 DECKS a oe a Keyboard Tablet Mode Decks Layout Master VU meter amp Limiter The VU Meter on the top shows the Volume Level of the Master Output eae saute The Limiter indicator shows if the signal of the Master Output is compressed or not Master Volume Level amp Limiter Note Both Master VU and Limiter indicator will not be available if an External Mixer Audio setup is selected see Audio Setup Waveform Display This area tracks the waveform of each song loaded or playing on a deck It also features a Computer Beat Grid CBG used for visual mixing and beat matching The waveform posts curves corresponding to the two rates rhythms of the music allowing you to see your music The peaks in the curve represent beats In order to synchronize the music these peaks should occur at the same time The present is represented by the feature in the middle of the screen All on the left as already played while what is on the right represents the next few seconds of the track Below the curves there are small squares named CBG Computed Beat Grid which represent the position of measures The large squares represent the beginning of a measure 4 4 time The CBG is particularly useful for example
14. David Guetta gt Bad Lyric Video Club HD Clean David Guetta n Showtek ft Vassy J Apologize David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowla gt Bad Lyric Video Single Clean David Guetta n Showtek ft Vassy J When Love Takes Over Feat Kelly Rowland David Guetta Bad Lyric Video Single HD Clean David Guetta n Showtek ft Vassy J When Love Takes Over David Guetta gt Addicted To You David Guetta Remix Club Cle Avicii J When Love Takes Over Norman Doray amp Am David Guetta amp Addicted To You David Guetta Remix Club HD Avicii t Let Me Be Myself 3 Doors Down J When Love Takes Over feat Kelly Rowland E David Guetta amp Addicted To You David Guetta Remix Single Cl Avicii When You re Young 3 Doors Down d Gettin Over feat Chris Willis David Guetta amp Addicted To You David Guetta Remix Sinalel HL Avicii f Everv Time You Go 3 Doors Down Audio CU results Video CU results Karaoke CU results Notes Content Unlimited tracks can be previewed only for 30 seconds if the relative Content Unlimited subscription is active Tracks from Audio Video and Karaoke catalogues are provided by reliable partnered content providers Tracks from Netsearch are provided from various unreliable Internet sources Audio Video and Karaoke catalogues require separate Content Unlimited subscriptions Netsearch video tracks require a Video Content Unlimited subscription Netsearch audio tracks requir
15. Hot Cue Loop and Effects sections offer 3 different views minimal standard and extended Click on the header of each section hot cue effect and loop to toggle between the Normal and Extended view If one of the sections is in Extended view the other 2 will automatically be displayed in Minimal view Choose the desired view to get the controls you prefer for your type of mixing Y HOT CUE SLOT 1 Flanger SLOT 2 Reverb SLOT 3 Echo LOOP IN Y HOT CUE Y HOT CUE 00 53 8 00 15 6 EDIT ii EFFECT STR Flanger v t1 LOOP IN OUT Normal View Effects Extended View Loops Extended View HotCues Extended View VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide IKE 4 DECKS HotCues Effects Loops and Custom buttons are available in a single view Planger CU STOM Advanced Deck Controls 4 Decks HotCues Use any of the 6 available Hot Cue buttons to trigger a Hot Cue or save if empty Right click to delete it 2 DECKS 6 DECKS 3 different views for the Hot Cues are offered Minimal Normal and Extended The Minimal view is auto selected if one of the other 2 sections Effect and Loops are set to Extended View In this view only 3 Hot Cues are available The Normal view is auto selected if none of the available sections are set to extended mode In this view 6 Hot Cues are offered Click to trigger set a Cue point or right click to delete a Cue point The Extende
16. JO Text button and the text will be displayed on the Video preview window Use the mouse to resize and move the Text inside the video preview window Create an additional text overlay area red with your mouse if you wish more text areas and repeat the procedure above 1 Use the button to delete the selected text overlay Finally click on the O button to save your work A vdjedit file will be created in the same folder as your original track Notes Video and text overlays can be combined to a single vdjedit file Multiple vdjedit files can be created based on the same original file vdjedit files can be edited using the video Editor as many times as required vdjedit files are automatically added to the Search DB Sampler Editor Sampler Editor provides information and tools to edit each of the Sample files Access the Sampler Editor using the right click menu of a sample or CTRL click in Grid View On the top the name and the path of the sample will be displayed along with its detected BPM value and a knob to adjust its Gain Sample Editor ES SAMPLE EDITOR E Instruments Kick Hard Bpm 128 1 Gain Name Mode Group Color Loop Pitched Sync Start Sync Lock Trigger VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide ee The sample will be analyzed and the multi colored waveform will be displayed providing information of its structure based on the detected frequencies The grey scaled backgro
17. Netsearch even though the Audio Video and Karaoke catalogues offer search results not advised Drag any track from the ContentUnlimited search results and load it to a VirtualDJ deck It will then start to download the track online stream and the progress bar song position will indicate the downloading process Play and preview the track Note It is strongly advised to allow the Content Unlimited track to fully download prior playing the track live especially if your Internet connection is slower than the playing speed lf you wish to keep a ContentUnlimited track into your Music Library right click on the track and choose Download to cache The line of the track will begin to change color indicating the download progress and a progress status will be also displayed on the top right side of the Songs List The Download queue subfolder of the Content Unlimited folder will also provide the progress of all your downloads can be more than 1 at the same time This is so you can search for another song or focus to a different folder i WW a Y a AL F EF We re Almost There Michael Jackson Wanna Be Starting Something Michael Jackson Downloading 25 Thriller Michael Jackson CU track Downloading progress Status bar Tips Cached or streamed Content Unlimited tracks are automatically analyzed and added to the Search Database Cached Content Unlimited tracks can be found in the Downloaded content subfolder
18. Songs list Select all files using CTRL A and right click on any of the selected files and choose Batch gt Analyze for BPM or Create a Filter folder with criteria isscanned 0 see Filter folders and gather all the tracks that need to be scanned Select any of them and Batch analyze for BPM using one of the previously described methods The advantage of following this method is that you can choose small blocks of tracks to analyze each time in case your Tracks collection is large Notes Analyzing tracks will automatically add them to the Search DB Analyzing your entire Track s collection may take time depending on the size of it Playlists VirtualDJ supports m3u Playlists along with 3rd party software Playlists such as iTunes Playlists and Serato Crates m3u Playlists VirtualDJ is offering a dedicated Playlists folder as a Root Element in the Folders List location MyDocuments VirtualDJ Playlists where all your newly created Playlists are stored My m3u Playlists are in a different location Playlists are readable from any location Simply click on that folder to expand and all your Playlists will be listed below that Click on any of the offered Playlists to see its tracks at the Songs List lf you need to gather all of them in the default folder you can right click on any Playlist or even the entire folder and choose File Operations gt Move to option from the offered menu How to create a Playlist Drag
19. Total Time 0 01 42 the top ment Song What So Not High You 4 Visit the BROADCAST page of the Settings menu to CAS REC FILE adjust the settings see Broadcast page Broadcasting Mix VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 32 Browser On the bottom of the Default GUI both 2 and 4 Decks skins the Browser is displayed It is divided into 4 basic areas Folder List Song List Sideview and Info Each one of the available areas can be resized to take the desired width and can be closed or opened using the vertical button on the separator lines Sideview is closed by default on first launch On the left side of the Browser a vertical Toolbar is offered with some global Browser features f Desktop E Computer My Music Serato_ Club Music MF avorite Audio tracks ES Wop 40 My Videos Sampler ContentUnlimited Cloud Lists iTunes GaHistory Playlists LiveFeedback Crates Compatible Songs Most Played Recently Added Folders List Offers all the basic Drive and folder your elements of Title 3 Crunk J Boneless J Animals 3 Pompeii E J Hiah You Are a JJ Work Bitch J Timber J Demons 3 The illest J Sweet Child O Mine blahfeohf eiofh 2 Burn The Disco Computer My 14 files Fr 7 o a Y S Artist Showtek Steve Aoki Chris Lake amp Tujamo Martin Garrix Bastille What So Not Britney Spears Pitbull ft Ke ha Imagine Dragons Clockwork Showtek ft We Are Loud amp Sonny Wils
20. VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide E C ADVANCED FEATURES VirtualDJ offers various advanced features provided through the POI BPM Tag Track Video and Automix Editors The Basic features of the software will probably be enough to allow you mixing your favorite tracks however the Editors will provide advanced tools to organize your music library or take your mixes to the next level Sandbox Sandbox introduced in VirtualDJ version 8 is a new feature that will revolutionize the work of mainstream Dus It will let you put VirtualDJ in a sandbox mode where you can test the upcoming mix in advance without disturbing what the audience is actually listening So if you have a song playing on say deck A and you still have 3mn before the end of the SANDBOX song you might want to activate the sandbox mode by pressing the button and then you can safely move deck A to a point near the end of the song where you think you might want to do your mix and try the mix with deck B ae SANDBOX Sandbox disabled The master output will continue to output the original song from the point where it was before sandboxing like if nothing happens while the new position will now be playing in your headphones You can crossfade equalize apply effects etc and everything will act only in the headphones ih _ s on Sandbox enabled When you re satisfied you can deactivate sandbox by pressing the A sAanoBox button and d
21. VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide ca Master Effect Click on the nal button to bring up the A a SoundEfect W Effects List and select an Effect for the Reverb 8 Distortion gt Master Output E k pe Hanger 2 Loop Roll ad E Phaser The Sound Effects List will be expanded if MASTER EFFECT A Reverb only audio tracks are loaded Both Sound Reverb iG Slicer and Video Effect Lists will be expanded if gt a Video track is loaded a o 3 canal a Cut Click on the text button name of effect to FlippinDouble enable disable the selected Effect on 49 overloop Master Output i an Master Effect 4 Decks gt s Video Effect ere Other Effects List Click on the GUI button to dock the FX GUI in the Browser and control the effect parameter s if available ee E The FX GUI is also offered by the Bout 61 button in the Effects List Distortion master Downsample Color 21x 535 FX GUI Record Mix RECORD BROADCAST MIX Click on the REC button to start stop recording your Mix A recording message will be displayed on the top Recording MV mp and the VU meter will indicate the recording level Click on the EDIT button to open the RECORD page of Settings to choose the filename path and type of the recorded file see Record page Recording Mix Broadcast Mix RECORD BROADCAST MIX Click on the BCAST button to start stop broadcasting Broadcasting to 0 clients your Mix A broadcasting message will be displayed on
22. Zoom In Out using the wheel mouse and use the top scrolling bar to navigate to the Automix area Drag any of the 2 songs to move it over the timeline Move and resize the Automix common part of the songs blue area Use the buttons to prelisten the previous next or both songs of the Automix timeline Use the a buttons to play pause stop the Automix player Use the 2 button to undo your last action MATCH BPM Use the Tt o button to turn on off the BPM match when turned on the BPM of the songs will be matched to provide a smooth synced transition VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 76 AutoMix Editor En 04 46 94 23 59 23 Bastille Pornpeii Britney Spears Work Bitch Clockwork Trernor Far East M tft The Il ve Felix Da Housecat ft william H MW Guns N Roses Sweet Child C gy pe t d MATCH BPM gt D RESET OFF Repeat the above procedure with any of the paired songs you wish to edit for this Automix List Close the Automix Editor window saving is automatic Notes Any part of the previous song of a pair positioned after the Automix blue area will not be heard Any part of the next song of a pair positioned before the Automix blue area will not be heard Automix Editor will not provide any functions if Back to Back none is selected as Automix type Tip Once the Automix is edited save the Playlist from Playlist Options Your edits will apply next
23. and its suppliers 3 COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Unauthorized copying distribution modification public display or public performance of copyrighted works is an infringement of the copyright holders rights As a condition to your agreement with Atomix you agree that you will not use the Software to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way 4 WARRANTY Atomix warrants that the media on which the Software is furnished if any will be free from defects in materials and workmanship Atomix offers no warranty of performance express or implied with regard to the licensed software and all accompanying materials Atomix further disclaims all other warranties express or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with regard to the licensed software and all accompanying materials VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 118 5 CUSTOMER REMEDY Your exclusive remedy under the above limited warranty shall be at Atomix option either a full refund of the purchase price or correction of the defective software or media Notice is hereby given however that absent any defects there will be no refunds issued on activated software 6 DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES You assume responsibility for among other things i the selection of the Licensed Software to achieve your intended results ii the acquisition of other software including any programming or ope
24. largest part of the song that provides a constant value However this can be manually changed and several parts of the track may have their own BPM value along with CBG phase How to Variable BPM Click on the button 2 new buttons will replace this button Move the Play green marker to the position of the track where from the BPM of the track is getting a different value or the CBG is shifted VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 64 Click on the button to add a new Beat Grid anchor Place your mouse on the background of the waveform between the 1st and the 2nd beat starting from the new Beat Grid anchor or any other position after that until the double sided arrow appears Click and move this point to the beginning of the 2nd beat The BPM will be re calculated based on your adjustments Click on the Ik button if required to remove any of the Beat Grid anchors in your track Tag Editor Tag Editor allows you to view and edit all the information VirtualDJ stores on its database for each track It also provides id3Tag reading and saving features for the supported tracks mp3 mp4 m4a m4v mov f4v ogg ogm flac wav wave wma wmv avi flv mkv Tag Editor TAG EDITOR Artist David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland Remix BYP a tag David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland O Y m Cas Title When Love Takes Over Album One More Love A tag When Love Takes Over A tag One More Love NM Rernixer Composer Lab
25. panels in Decks 2 Decks GUI s Timecode panels in the SCRA TCH panel 4 Decks GUI Note In order to use VirtualDJ s timecode capabilities the sound card must be able to provide a stereo signal on the appropriate input channels Mono input of a timecode signal is not supported Additional Setup for Recording Using an Audio Setup with Master Output Speakers the recording is performed internally so no special connection or Audio Setup is required In case of an external mixer setup though the recording cannot be performed internally as the external mixer is not capable to control the internal mixer of the software In this case an additional connection and a Record line in Audio Setup are required Connections Recording with a 2 Channel External Mixer amp USB multi channel sound card Connections VirtualDJ Audio Setup Select the EXTERNAL MIXER and INTERNAL SOUND CARD options Once the Audio Setup is created select your USB sound card from the SoundCard field VirtualDJ will then route each of the available decks to a separated stereo channel of your USB sound card Once the audio setup is created with decks 1 to 2 or 4 depending on the deck you are about to use create an additional line as below by choosing Record from the Source list VirtualDJ will then record the specified Input Click APPLY VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide AUDIO SETTINGS OUTPUT INPUT E INTERMAL SPEAKER ONLY m CAE E TWO SO
26. the effects when you load a new song pitchRange Set how far the pitch slider can move pitchLock If true moving the pitch slider on one deck will also move equally the pitch sliders on the other decks effectively keeping the bom together if they were already together Defines how the crossfader behaves crossfaderHamster Invert the crossfader so that putting the crossfader to the left most position makes the right deck audible and the left deck silenced faderCurve Set the curve for the volume sliders O linear 0 5 quadratic 1 logarithmic Set the reference that is used for auto gain 1 0 0dbA vinylMode In Vinyl mode touching the disc on the skin or the jogwheel on a controller stop the song and scratch In CD mode it speed up or slow down a little the song rampStartTime Simulate how a real turntable needs time to reach its full speed when started rampStopTime Simulate how a real turntable needs time to reach full stop when stopped rampsScratchTime Simulate how a real turntable needs time to react when the disc is touched boothMicrophone When set to true the microphone input is also heard on the booth audio output equalizerlnHeadphones Set to true if you want to hear the equalizer on the PFL or false default if you want to hear the original song VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 109 prelistenOutput Selects which deck is used to output the prelisten sound from the editors or the info panel preview O means automaticall
27. to maximum 100 A VU meter is offered with the level of the Rt jetm Master Output The LIM is an indicator that will show if the Limiter is engaged on the Master Output Limiter is ON by default and can not be disabled Use the REC button below the Master Volume to record the Master Output to a Sample Headphones Volume Mix Use the VOL knob to adjust the volume of the Pre listen channel headphones Double click to set the Headphones Volume to maximum 100 Use the MIX knob to choose what will be heard in the Pre listen Output headphones When the knob is at 0 position the selected PFL decks will be heard When the knob is at 1000 position the Master Output will be heard In all other positions the selected decks PFL and the Master Output will be mixed in the Pre listen Channel headphones Note The knobs will not be available if the Headphones are not selected in Audio Setup Master Only or External Mixer Microphone Volume Mic ON Use the MIC VOL knob to adjust the Volume of the Microphone Input Double click to set the volume of the Microphone to maximum value 100 A VU meter is offered with the level of the Microphone Input Click on the ON button to enable disable the Microphone Use the REC button to record only the Microphone Input to a Sample Note The knob will not be available if Microphone is not present in the Audio Setup or the Microphone of your controlling device is a hardware one
28. used to create a list with Karaoke tracks for the Karaoke rotation Drag a Karaoke track from the Songs list and drop it to the Karaoke area Click on the button right next to each track to add the name of the singer Singer Singer Start the karaoke rotation with the Led button The first karaoke song in the list will be loaded to a free deck and will wait for the play button to be pressed When the first karaoke track has played through the end the next one from the list will load and be ready to play Karaoke Options Click on the o button to receive a menu with the Karaoke Options to Start Stop Karaoke rotation or even choose the Background Music and the Background image Background Music Choose if the background music comes from the KARAOKE Title Artist Eie You Lonesome Tonight Elvis Presley Ei New York New York Frank Sinatra fk Sweet Dreams Beyonce E Titanic Celine Dion Karaoke List Start Karaoke Background Music gautomis y Background Image default Autormi list Automix list Sidelist list a specific folder or even a E specific track The background music will be played specific folder during the breaks from the time the Karaoke songs end Specific file and until the moment you press Play again for the next Background image Choose an image to be displayed on the Video Output between the breaks of the rotation A default image is pre selected VirtualDJ 8
29. will show the current playing track and the bottom the next track loaded from the Automix List The white marked areas will indicate the start and end positions of the auto mixing These will be updated if a different automix type is selected Click on the a button to receive a menu with the Automix Options Automix Options Start Automix Automix Editor AUTOMIX Time remaining 18 18 Title Boneless J3 Tremor Artist Remix Length Will play Steve Aoki Chris La Steve Aoki 4 30 02 48 Clockwork Hardwell Ran 4 39 02 49 lt Burn The Disco Felix Da Housecat ft Bro Safari Ri 4 00 02 50 gj Demons PR Timber j Crunk gj High You Are Burn The Disco Imagine Dragons 3 20 02 53 Pitbull ft Ke ha R3hab Remix 4 13 02 57 Showtek Original Mix 5 01 03 01 What So Not 3 33 03 05 Automix List TAP GAIN 2 1 dE KEY 12B amp Deck with Automix enabled Start Automix Automix Editor Automix type Automix Editor Automis Type Automix Length Repeat Auto remove played Clear shuttle Remove already played Remove duplicates SAWE Automix Options Start stop Automix operation Define how each pair of tracks will be mixed see Select the type of mixing that will be used for the tracks Smart VirtualDJ attempts to determine the optimal mix point based on the outro of the current track and intro of the upcoming track mix time varies from 4 to 8 secs depe
30. 8 Use the button to manually calculate the BPM of the track Right click on the button to open the BPM Editor to perform more advanced and precise Tempo and Beat Phase corrections if required See BPM Editor The M button indicates the Master Deck All other decks will sync to the Master Deck if SYNC is pressed on any deck Click to set any deck as Master or leave the Auto selection on depends on which deck is currently going to the Master Output Right click on the Artist or Title of the track to show hide the Cover Click on the Cover of the track to open the Tag Editor to view and edit all the available info of the track Basic Deck Controls 2 DECKS 6 DECKS In this area a virtual Jog wheel is available to provide bend or scratch controls of the track Use the control buttons PLAY STOP and CUE to play pause and stop the track or set a temporary Cue point Use the Pitch slider to adjust the tempo BPM of the track The buttons will temporary slowdown speed up the track Pitch Bend Click on the button to gradually reset the tempo to its original value or double click for instant reset Deck Controls 2 Decks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 12 Press the button to smoothly synchronize the track of the deck with the opposite deck It will match the BPM of the track and align the CBG Computer Beaitgrid Toggle between the Scratch Vinyl and Bend CD mode using the Button In Vinyl Mode the Jog W
31. AST bel hs 4 Channel External Mixer amp USB multi channel sound card Audio Setup Note lt is strongly advised to use the ASIO drivers of the sound card if available and make sure the USB sound card is not the default soundcard of your Operating system Audio Setup using a MIDI Controller with a built in soundcard Most of the natively supported MIDI HID controllers with built in soundcard will offer a pre defined Audio Setup as a special button in the CARD section once these are connected For the rare cases that this is not offered please follow instructions from the Operation Manual of the device Below is an example of the pre defined Audio Setup that the Pioneer DDJ WeGO offers Once the device is connected a special button will appear Simply click on that button in order the Setup to be created Click APPLY AUDIO SETTINGS OUTPUT CARD AUDIO Ea INTERFACE MICROPHONE INTERNAL A SPEAKER ONLY SOUNDCARD TWO SOUNDCARDS SPEAKER STEREO TO MONO T HEADPHONE Pr SPLITTER PIONEER DDJ WEGO EXTERNAL MIZER TIMECODE SIGNAL CONTROLLERS LINE INPUT o OPTIONS a Source SoundCard Channel master w Pioneer DDJ_WeGOASIO ASIO asm v DDJ WeGO MASTERLER v xX Ay LICENSES headphones v Pioneer DDJ_WeGOASIO ASIO ASIA v DDJ WWeGO PHONESLE R vx in i BROADCAST Pro Pre defined Audio Setup Pioneer DDJ WeGO VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 96 Note A Controller or Pro Infinity License is requ
32. BROADCAST button and provide the link you will see at the bottom to your listeners PC TO PC DIRECT Broadcast using an Internet Radio Server Icecast OGG format streaming and Shoutcast MP3 format streaming are supported Fill the provided fields with the data provided from the host server along RADIO SERVER with some extra information for your session VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 85 PL I0 PL DIKEC I RADIO SERVER EPISODES PODLAS O START BROADCAST Contig MyServer Settings w i Protocal Shout ast w Encoding Quality 128 kbps default he Server RL hostyou serwer corn Server Port S000 Source Password TLL Session Name Sessions Mame Session Genre session s Genre Other Fields Broadcasting settings using a Radio Server er Ww To upload your broadcast to virtualdj com server and save your mixes Just enter your Episode Name and start broadcast To DITA manage your podcasts click on the link provided EPISODES PODCAST Note Broadcasting requires Port 8000 needs to be forwarded in case a router is used See some useful information in our Wiki page http www virtualdj com wiki Broadcasting 20Howto html VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 86 Record The Record tab allows recording your audio and video mixes VirtualDJ Config version 8 0 0 Copyright Atomix Productions 1999 2014 E RECORD AUDIO Ez SELECT INTERFACE Flname OPTIONS a ao STOP RECORD Recordi
33. Cached Content Unlimited will need to refresh the DRM authorizations every 30 days VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 87 Cloudlists CloudLists are online saved playlists you can share or access these from any other computer They can be used to share playlists with other users So if a user asks on the forum I ve been booked for a salsa night tomorrow and have no idea what salsa is Is it some spicy sauce and you happen to be a resident DJ in Varadero Cuba then you can make a playlist for this poor fellow DJ and just answer on the forum to add you on Cloud List lt can also be used to consult the latest playlist from your favorite artists or groups and stay up to date on what are the latest hot tracks to play check out the 3 channels on the VirtualDJ Radio CloudList for example Finally it can also be used to save private lists for yourself so that next time you re at a dinner at your friend s house and you want to start spinning some tracks you just need to log in with your account on their VirtualDJ and you ll have all your playlists ready How to Once the Cloud Lists folder is expanded your virtualdj com Username along with a default picked user VirtualDJRadio with a few offered Cloud Lists will be displayed Right click on your Username and choose Add a new List to create and share a new Cloud List Downloaded content Input Text Cloud Lists Enter new list name djdad Add a news list virtuale aa Tune
34. Filepath file size Bitrate and Sample Rate for Audio and Video streams for video files You can edit any of the fields and press OK to save your changes Depending on your browser settings the corresponding tag data may also update automatically default behavior is off Click on Write Tags to update the track s iD3tags with the values from the VirtualDJ Database File Rename Click on the small dot icon right next to the Filename to rename the file as Artist Title or Artist Title Remix Custom file renaming is available as a right click option in the Browser File Operations Album CoverArt Click on the Aloum Cover Art on CoverArt Selection the top right to receive Y ps alternative CoverArt selections ty o e a Jove Jove from various Sources iTunes i A Amazon Grooveshark Google ANIM TLR NML g Tag G hark 500x500 500x500 100x100 150x150 etc Click on any of the available to Save your selection to the Tag of the track How to Batch Edit Tracks Select multiple files using standard OS methods e g click on multiple tracks while holding SHIFT or CTRL for Windows OS Right click and choose Tag Editor The Editor will display the common values of the tracks and the rest of the fields will be marked as multiple values Type a value in any of the fields you wish all the files in your selection to get the same value and press OK to apply your edits to the selected tracks VirtualDJ
35. KS The VIDEO center panel offers audio video mixing controls such as GAIN knob Volume Faders Audio Crossfader and PFL selection buttons see Audio Mixer Additionally it offers Video preview windows for Master and Deck a Video Crossfader along with Video Effect and Transition controls VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 25 Video Mixer 2 amp 6 Decks Video Previews The large top window will display the Master Video Output Click inside that area to enable disable the Video engine and Master Video Output The smaller Video preview windows will display the Video Output of the left and right decks Click on the left Video Deck preview to perform a Video transition to the left side and on the right video Deck preview to perform a Video transition to the right side Video Effect Click on the button to see a list of Video Effects select a Video Effect Click on the text box to enable disable the selected Video Effect on the Master Video Output Click on the button in the Video Effects List to dock the FX GUI in the Browser in order to control the parameters of the Video Effect if available Video Mixer 4 Decks FFECT Boom uto EFFECT Boom uto BoomAuto master Speed Depth 4 3 40 0 oom Visualisations i AD SlideShow ol Title a y VideoEffect Lo Negative 2 re o strabeAuto y DD Strobe E o Boorn uto 2 Co Colorize Go Camera Ecol o Text Vi
36. LA INPUT CONTROLLERS Thi EXTERNAL MIXER a LINE INPUT 10 a y a o sn a Source SoundCard Channel master Audio 2 DJ ASIO BRA Ch Ali 2 x LICENSES headphones Audio 2 DJ ASIO AAA ChB 34 uv Cy BROADCAST Master amp Headphones with Multi Channel USB sound card Audio Setup Note lt is strongly advised to use the ASIO drivers of the sound card if available and make sure the USB sound card is not the default soundcard of your Operating system Audio Setup with External mixer amp multi channel USB sound card In order to use an external analogue dj mixer a sound card with at least 2 stereo outputs is required For each VirtualDJ deck you wish to use with an external mixer a dedicated stereo channel is required Notes The external analogue dj mixer will not control the internal mixer of VirtualDJ Volume faders EQ Crossfader pfl Audio routing is done exclusively from the external mixer An External mixer or Pro Infinity License is required 2 DECKS To use 2 VirtualDJ Decks with an external 2 Channel analogue dj mixer a sound card with at least 2 stereo outputs is required Connections 2 Ch External Mixer amp USB multi channel sound card Connections VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Audio Setup Select the EXTERNAL MIXER and INTERNAL SOUND CARD options Once the Audio Setup is created select your USB sound card from the SoundCard field VirtualDJ will th
37. Mode the Jog Wheel will emulate the sound of a record being scratched when the position is moved In CD mode the jog wheel will bend the pitch when the position is moved Enable Slip mode using the O button While Slip Mode is enabled Hot Cues Loops and Scratching will only affect the position of the song temporary and once disabled the song will continue to play from the position it would have been if the Slip Mode had never been enabled Note The CUE button sets a temporary Cue and will not affect the saved HotCues However the temporary Cue point will be saved across sessions for each of your tracks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide e 2 DECKS 4 DECKS 6 DECKS Deck Options Smart Play Smart Cue Smart Loop Master Tempo Click on the button to choose a different behavior for the Basic Control buttons adjust the Pitch Range and enable Master Tempo or other useful smart mixing options such as Smart Loop Smart Cue and ashen Smart Play Buttons Behavior Deck Options Description Smart Play Automatically start playing from the nearest position that would allow the songs to be beat matched with one another Smart Cue Automatically adjusts the jump position to keep the song beat matched Smart Loop Automatically adjust the loop points when you set a manual loop to make the loop seamless Master Tempo or Key Lock Keeps the key of the song unchanged when the pitch of the song is changed Pitch Range Set the perce
38. Press the KA button right next to the Key value to reveal hide the Key Control panel in order to adjust or reset the Key of the track Use the MN H buttons to move the Key one semitone up down and the button to bring the track back to its original Key value Key Control Panel Turn on off the Master Tempo Key Lock with the kai button If Master Tempo is enabled the Key of the track will retain its value if the Pitch is changed 6 DECKS All 6 Decks are offered as Mini Decks below the Left and the Right ones Mini Decks 1 3 and 5 can become Left A and Mini decks 2 4 and 6 can become Right B Deck if you click on the header of each Mini Deck Artist title and song position is offered for each one of the Mini Decks Each time one of the Mini Decks is set as Left or Right the Mini Deck gets the corresponding color blue for Left red for Right The M buttons indicates the Master Deck all other decks will sync to the Master Deck if SYNC is pressed VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide nl Set this deck as left deck Deck A Felix Da Housecat ft william Burn The Disco Mini Decks Deck 3 assigned as Left A 4 DECKS Once a track is loaded to a deck the track s Info such as Artist Title Elapsed and Remain Time Cover BPM Key and Gain will be displayed in this area The track will be analyzed and the song position progress will be displayed Ma Burn The Disco E 4 KEY 12B l s 00 50 3 Few 03 09 7 San 0 00
39. The Normal view is auto selected if none of the mA available sections are set to extended mode Click on the button to select an effect from the offered eiii drop down Effects List and turn it on off with the text button Adjust the 1st and the 2nd Parameters of the selected effect by using the 2 round knobs The Extended View is selected by clicking on the Header of the section In this view 3 Effect Slots are offered along with my buttons to select the effect for each slot Turn on off sialic each one of the effects using the text boxes and SLOT 2 adjust their 1st parameter using the knobs e More parameters for each effect slot are offered in the Effect GUI SLOT 3 All 3 effect slots can be turned on simultaneously Echo Effects Extended View VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 7 Wahwah deck 1 In the Normal View a button is offered to see all the available Parameters and Preset Buttons of the a pee selected Effect oO A detailed Effect GUI will be automatically attached 62 Rese Lock on the right side of the Browser The same Effect GUI for each effect is also offered by the button in the drop down Effects List Effect GUI 4 DECKS Click on the a button to select an effect from the offered drop down Effects List Flanger and turn it on off with the text button Adjust the 1st and the 2nd Parameters of the Effects 4 Decks skin effect using the 2 round knobs Ef
40. UNDCARDS k MICROPHONE i SPEAKER i STEREO TO MONO T HEADPHONE PAN SPLITTER TIMECODE SIGNAL HH EXTERNAL MIXER LINE INPUT a Source SoundC ard Channel deck 1 Audio 8 DJ ASiO Sam F Chan1 2 oK a LICENSES deck 2 Audio DJ CASIO a Chan384 x gt record Audio 8 DJ ASIO ASIA Chan1 2 o xX 4 BROADCAST y RECORD Recording with a 2 Channel External Mixer amp USB multi channel sound card Audio Setup Note lt is strongly advised to use the ASIO drivers of the sound card if available and make sure the USB sound card is not the default soundcard of your Operating system ReWire From Propellerheads the inventor of ReWire ReWire is a system for transferring audio data from one application to another in real time Basically you could view ReWire as an invisible audio cable that connects two computer programs VirtualDJ always behave as the ReWire Master and must be launched prior the ReWire slave application Prior closing VirtualDJ the ReWire slave application must be closed Popular ReWire applications include Ableton Live can work as slave or master and Propellerheads Reason slave only Setting up ReWire In VirtualDJ ReWire is integrated to the advanced audio setup and it is just another input that can be routed to a VirtualDJ deck Prior enabling a line in must be added first in the Audio Setup This line input must be assigned to a ReWire slave application and then to a ReWire chan
41. User s Guide Browser Font size buttons to Increase or decrease the size of the Browser font Sideview Sideview offers Sidelist Sampler Automix Karaoke and Clone panels by default These can be selected by the buttons at the bottom of the Sideview More custom panels can be added using the Add Shortcut option Sidelist By default the Sidelist will be used in VirtualDJ to gt SIDELIST keep the tracks that you loaded into a VirtualDJ zi TE E deck but never played lt can be also be used Mis Bastille Extended Mix as a secondary track list to quickly access the MB Imagine Dragons Burn The Disco Felix Da Housecat ft will Bro Safari F tracks that you have dropped into that list and HATE Martin Garrix Original Mix may use later during your mix Right click on any of the Headers of the visible fields to show hide more Database fields Hover your mouse between the visible headers to resize each one of the columns Drag any track from the Sidelist and drop it to a VirtualDJ Deck to load it The tracks will not be removed from the Sidelist with this operation To remove a track from the sidelist right click on the track that you wish to remove or select multiple tracks and choose Remove from the available menu The rest of the available dle operations from the right click menu are similar Sidelist to the Song List menu Note Change this behavior with the setting saveUnplayedtoSidelist from the Op
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43. View samplerExportLossless When set to true new samples that are recorded will be saved using a lossless algorithm FLAC When set to false default they will be VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 112 samplerDontSaveSource When set to true new samples that are recorded will not save their source file filepath if you want to distribute the sample file without exposing your folder paths samplerOutputToTriggerDeck When set to true using the controller s trigger pads on the left side or right side change the sampler output channel accordingly samplerRootFolder Let you change the default folder where the samples are stored Record File format used to record the mix mp3 ogg flac webm mp4 recordQuality Amount of compression used when saving the recording the lower the quality the bigger the compression recordAutoStart If true the recording will automatically start as soon as you press play on a deck recordWaitForSound If true once started the recording will wait until something is actually playing before recording recordOverwrite Decide what to do when you record a new file and didn t manually change the output filename recordAutoSplit If true a new recorded file will be created each time you move the crossfader from one side to another recordWriteCueFile If true a cue file will be created alongside the recorded mp3 with the times and titles of each track you play the cue file can be use
44. abase operations i e add or remove from Search DB etc Songs List Offers all the Audio Video Karaoke tracks and VirtualDJ Samples of the selected folder and information depending on the visible Fields On the top of the Songs List a resizable Cover Flow area will display the Album Art of your tracks Drag n drop a track from this list to any of the VirtualDJ decks to play the track 14 files MA PITBULL Title Artist Remix Length Bpm J Crunk Showtek Original Mix 05 01 J Boneless Steve Aoki Chris Lake amp Tujamo Steve Aoki Chris Lake amp Tujamo J Animals Martin Garrix Original Mix Pompeii Bastille Kat Krazy Extended Mix E J High You Are What So Not J Work Bitch Britney Spears Original Mix J Timber Pitbull ft Ke ha R3hab Remix j Demons Imagine Dragons J Tremor Clockwork Hardwell Rambo Edit J Booyah Showtek ft We Are Loud amp Sonny Wilson Cash Cash Extended Remix J Epic Sandro Silva amp Quintino Luminox Remix J The Illest Far East Movement ft Explicit J Sweet Child O Mine blahfeohf eiofh Guns N Roses Eyecon Trap Remix Burn The Disco Felix Da Housecat ft will i am Bro Safari Remix Right click on any of the Field Headers of the Songs List to show or Hide any of the available Fields Title Anist First seen Remix First play Mites Last play Composer Unive Comment Fllepath ae Filename Length Filetype Bpm Filesize Key Filedate Harmonic Field1 Label Field2 Remixer Rating Grouping Album A
45. able if a shortcut is selected focused File Info The File Info area displays information of the selected track of Songs List or Side View such as Artist Title Artwork Remix Year Album Genre etc and offers a Pre listen Player as well File Information Click on the Info Options button right next to the Prelisten Player to access the Info Options menu Manage the visible Database fields of the Info window from the Fields menu option Hide or reveal the Prelisten Player by disabling the Show prelisten control option of the Info Options menu Access the Tag Editor of the track from the Edit option of the menu to edit any fields of the track VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 45 Work Bitch Britney Spears L LHE Jihan 4 Info Options Remix Original Mix Fale Year 2013 Album Britney Jean g Genre Mainstream Show prelisten control Fields mposer Anthony Preston Briney Spears Otto Jetimann Ruth Ann sor 128 0 Info Options menu Key Em Length 04 08 First seen 03 28 20 20 play 00 37 lay count 12 File Info Prelisten Player Click on the Play button to play pause the Prelisten Player or click inside the progress bar to prelisten any part of the track By default the Prelisten Player will aie use the Headphones Output A security message will be displayed in EE rt eno ci case no Headphones Output is ot configured in the Audio Setup Cancel Message if only Master is configured
46. ack and deck 4 is a ReWire deck Reason The audio deck can be synced with the ReWire deck 5 Ki Take Me Home 4 SANT i KEY 02B 3 00 00 1 03 39 6 n 0 048 Flanger 0 0 Line In 4 09 14 2 CUSTOM VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 103 Audio Setup common issues While creating and applying an Audio Setup If the sound card is not connected or its assigned channels are not available a message will be displayed in the details tab In this case make sure the sound card is connected and its drivers are installed or use a different one If the soundcard of your previously used Audio Setup is not connected on launch a pop up warning message will appear on your taskbar Either connect the specific sound card or create use a different Audio setup with a different sound card ES VirtualDJ No sound card Audio 2 DJ Failed to initialize ASIO driver A common skin interface response to an incorrectly configured or unavailable Audio Setup is where the track loads to the deck but when you try to play the track the Play button shows active but nothing beings to play VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EZI F Settings descriptions Basic settings Advanced settings Options Choose your preferred language for the menus and software Tooltips playMode Select if the play and stop buttons act as play stutter and pause stop or play pause and stop cueMode Select if the cue button act as cue cue hold
47. ally adjust the loop points when set a manual loop to make the loop seamless Loops 4 Decks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EM Custom Buttons In order to cover all possible needs of features and actions we added in the Default GUI a few extra empty buttons and knobs to customize via VirtualDJ script actions On first launch those buttons will be empty un assigned 2 DECKS 4 DECKS 6 DECKS Click on any of the available Custom Buttons EF n ng gg Knob to assign an action that i VirtualDJ is used by hundreds of millions of DJs all around the world from beginners you may miss from the available to super stars in bedrooms radios clubs festivals That s a lot of different people with a lot of different needs Ones An explanato ry pop u p And we know that your needs are different and unique too A That s why we left a few empty customizable buttons and knobs so you can message will appear which Can customize VirtualDJ to fit your exact needs be tu rned off for next time by Have you ever whished that VirtualDJ had a button for this or a button for that choosing Dont show again With hundreds of actions available in the VDJScript language we re sure you ll find what you need option Reverse master tempo start stop podcast change sampler bank It s all there You could even assign several effects parameters to the same knob to create cool effects Check out our wiki page if you want to see what other DJs are usi
48. any tracks from the Songs List and drop into the Automix area of the SideView Once finished with adding tracks click on the Playlist Options button and choose Save from the offered menu Type a name that your Playlist wish to have into the offered pop up window and choose OK VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NM AUTOMIX Total time 31 43 8 songs Title Artist Remix Length Will play E High You Are What So Not 3 33 22 28 EF Timber Pitbull ft Ke ha R3hab Remix 4 13 22 32 EF Animals Martin Garrix Original Mix 5 04 22 35 FF Demons Imagine Dragons 3 20 22 38 FF Sweet Child O Mine Guns N Roses Eyecon Trap F 3 15 22 40 ff Burn The Disco Fg ft w Bro Safari Rer 4 00 22 43 Ej The Illest vement ft Explicit 3 39 22 46 gE tremor var me Hardwell Ramt 4 39 22 50 gt Start Automix Automix Editor Automix Type Repeat Auto remove played Clear Shuffle Remove already played Rernove duplicates Save x Bi ne 3 Playlist Options Save CRUNK SLOWDOWN Save playlist Enter name for playlist 1 Drag n drop tracks to Automix 4 Save Playlist window UNES E History EyMy First Playlist LivePeedback Crates Compatible Songs E ev onions 2 FIL 2 Playlist Options Saved Playlist The Playlist will be now available in the dedicated Playlists folder of the Folders List Click on that Playlist to bring its tracks to the Songs List How to edit an existing Playlist Make sure the Au
49. at have been analyzed or not yet Top 100 tracks based on the Play Count field Top 100 recently added tracks Tracks that have BPM between 120 and 130 Tracks with Year between 1980 and 1990 80 s Tracks played the last 30 days last month Tracks that never been played Tracks that have been played at least once Tracks that are Audio or video or Karaoke tracks that have or not any Cover Note More Filter examples are available at http www virtualaj com wikvFilterExamples html Tips Once a Filter Folder is created drag and move it to a new position if you wish to reorder your Folders List Filter Folders apply on the entire Database if not nested inside a Folder or a Virtual folder Example If a Filter folder with filter Play Count gt 2 is nested inside a folder that holds your Video tracks the Filter folder will only provide the tracks from that specific folder video files that match to the given filter Compatible Songs Most Played Recently Added My Top List Moving a Virtual Folder VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 54 Favorite Folders You may want to define a collection of directories which are most frequently used for example Hits of 2006 or My Music The best solution is using the Favorite Folders Think of Favorite Folders as Shortcuts to a folder in the operating system How to Select a folder or a subfolder from the Folders List and click on the button to set this f
50. attern CBG Move the anchor to a different position to phase the CBG of the track An additional Beatgrid anchor can be applied to any position of the track and the CBG will be calculated again from that point till the end of the track or next Beatgrid anchor A Local BPM field is offered to input the value for this part and a Beat number value will be displayed below to indicate how many beats are passed till that point Use the additional Beatgrid anchor if the song offers variable BPM in various parts of it Automix Point gt Sets this track position as an Automix point A Point option drop down list will be offered on the right side to select the Automix point type Load point If a Load point is specified the track will be loaded and stopped on this position Use the Cue drop down list to choose if the POI will be visible or not on the GUI Invisible Marker Only or will act as HotCue as well be Use the la buttons to play pause stop the track and the Play marker green vertical line to reposition it Use the wy button to delete any of your POls VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 62 BPM Editor VirtualDJ has an advanced Sound Engine that will calculate the tempo BPM value and the Beat Grid CBG of your tracks with accuracy in almost all cases In the rare case that either the BPM value or the Beat Grid of your track are not correct the BPM Editor will provide all the tools to easily and accurately calculate and manuall
51. ch Options and type 120 125 It will provide all tracks that have BPM within the provided range tracks need to be prior analyzed Analyse Tracks Once a folder is selected from the left side of the Browser the tracks will appear in the Songs list providing the Artist Title and probably Remix fields if available If the tracks have never been played with VirtualDJ before the fields BPM Length and Key will be empty In order to see these information you will need to analyze scan your tracks It is strongly advised to have all your tracks analyzed How to Analyze specific tracks Right Click to any of your tracks and choose Analyze for BPM from the offered menu Multiple tracks can be selected using mouse click SHIFT or and CTRL and Batch gt Analyze for BPM option from the same right click offered menu Analyze specific folder Right click to any of your folders from the Folders List and choose Batch gt Analyze for BPM from the offered menu VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 48 Analyze your entire Music Library If your Music library lies to a specific Drive or folder simply right click on that folder and choose Batch gt analyze for BPM VirtualDJ will then analyze all the tracks contained in that folder including all the sub folders If your track s collection lies to various Drives or folders you can Type a star character in the Search field This will bring all the tracks of the Search Database to the
52. ck to any Folder sub IESS O g y ContentUnlimi File operations Add ta a DB folder or even Hard Drive at the Cloud Lists Set as favorite Remove from search DB Folders List Choose Batch gt iTunes Load tags Add to Search DB EJ History Download covers VirtualDJ will automatically search within the selected folder and its sub folders and will add its tracks to the Search Database Repeat this procedure for all your Drives or folders that contain your Music library lf you don t wish a specific folder or a sub folder to be included in your Search Database simply right click on any folder and choose Batch gt Remove from Search DB VirtualDJ will then remove the tracks of that folder and its sub folders from the Search Database Notes Adding or Removing tracks from Search Database will not copy move or delete any files It will only update the Search Database of VirtualDJ Adding tracks to the Search Database will not analyze tracks scan for BPM etc From that moment the Search field may be used to provide results based on your search input Simply type in the Search field part of the Artist and or part of the Title of the track you are searching for separated by a space character and VirtualDJ will provide all the tracks that match to your input Search results are constantly updated as you type characters in the Search field VirtualDJ will provide the tracks of the selected focused folder on the top followed by t
53. created by Serato software It will look for Favorite 9C AREER them into the default folder but a custom Dresden Add to search DB one may be defined from Options Recent Tracks eee eas Crates cannot be renamed moved copied fide al rae or deleted however Batch operations are Musics offered such as Add to Search DB analyze Roconi cents Load tags etc Notes The Crates root element will not be offered if Serato software is not installed to your computer Crates will not be available if no Crates have been created with Serato software VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NON History In case you need to see what you have played on a heed specific date or need to repeat a playing list from a successful event VirtualDJ keeps a full playing track s History organized by dates Simply click on the History Load in 4utoMix folder to expand and see all your playing tracks ordered Load in Sidetist by date and grouped by year and month for the past po Rename ones mae Select a History Playlist and the tracks that you have pi played on that specific date will be listed in the Songs Mt Set as favorite List An additional Play Time field will be also displayed Batch which indicates the time that each track had been played Choose from the right click offered menu to load the History Playlist into the Automix or Sidelist set as a favorite folder for quick access Rename Delete Move and Copy or even Batch operations s
54. d View is selected by clicking on the Header of the section In this view 6 Hot Cues are offered along with useful Cue info such as Cue Names Cue Time Position Cue Time From Position Beats to Cue Click on the information to cycle through the different info Use the X buttons to delete any of the Hot Cues Click on the padlock button to prevent the deleting of a Hot Cue L E Click on the button to open the POI Editor to rename and manage your Hot Cue points see POI Editor Turn on off Smart Cue Snap with the O button available in the Deck Options as well HotCues Extended View VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide KN 4 DECKS Use any of the 6 available buttons to trigger or set a Hot Cue if empty Open the POI Editor to manage your Hot Cues with thelial button HotCues 4 Decks Note Even though 6 Hot Cue points are offered in the Default 2 Decks GUI which should cover the needs in most cases VirtualDJ supports up to 99 Hot Cue points which can be controlled using a custom skin custom buttons or keyboard midi controller shortcuts Effects 2 DECKS 6 DECKS The Minimal view is auto selected if one of the other ii EFFECT 2 sections Hot Cues and Loops are set to Extended View Flanger Click on the v button to select an effect from the offered drop down Effects List and turn it on off with Effects Minimal View the text button Adjust the 1st Parameter of the effect by using the A
55. d by many CD burning software to create tracked CDs recordVideoWidth Width of the video track in the recorded file if you record a video recordVideoHeight Height of the video track in the recorded file if you record a video recordMicrophone If false don t record the microphone into the output file Broadcast broadcastMode Broadcast mode Choose Direct if you want to stream directly from your computer Choose Server if you want to stream to a radio station Choose Podcast if you want to save your podcast on virtualdj com for later use broadcastDirectFormat File format used to broadcast should be mp3 for ShoutCast or ogg for IceCast broadcastDirectPort Internet port used for direct broadcast broadcastDirectQuality Encoding quality compression when using Direct Broadcast broadcastDirectMaxClients Maximum number of listener who can connect to your computer at the same time in Direct Broadcast don t put too high if you don t have a lot VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 113 Set to false if you don t want your listeners to see the titles of what you are playing Name of your podcast Internet broadcastSonglnfo podcastName Set to true to prevent VirtualDJ to log you in or connect to the Internet most features won t be available stayLoggedIn Set to false if you want VirtualDJ to ask your password every time checkUpdates What to do when there is a new version of VirtualDJ available Save your playlists o
56. deo Effects List VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EJ Notes Additional Effects can be downloaded from our website tto www virtuald com addons effects html Custom Video effects can be grouped and moved see Effects The Default Video Effects for VirtualDJ Windows version Mac version Video Transition Click on the v button to see the Video Transitions List and to select a Video Transition The Video transition will define how the left and right Video decks will be mixed using the Video Crossfader Click on the text box to enable disable the selected Video Transition Click on the button in the Video Transitions List to dock the GUI of the Transition in the Browser in order to control the parameter s of the Video Transition if available Notes Negative StrobeAuto Strobe BoomAuto Boom Colorize Camera Text Negative StrobeAuto Strobe BoomAuto Boom Colorize Camera Text TRANSITION TimeCut T strobo Slide Scratch TRANSITION Timetut T scrolls satelliteBoorm FlatCube TimeCut master Double vind own Speed 4 0 Video Transitions List Additional Video Transitions can be downloaded from our website tip www virtuald com addons effects html Custom Video Transitions can be grouped and moved see Effects The Default Video Transitions for VirtualDJ Windows version None Alpha Zoom Wipe Strobo Scratch Cut TimeCut Window Cube Fade Satelite
57. does not give you the right to use it for professional use where you are getting paid or compensated for an activity that involves using the software without purchasing an additional Pro license Additional Pro license The Pro license gives you the right to use the software for professional use This license is personal and not transferable Once linked to your email you cannot sell or give it to someone else It gives you the right to install and use the software on a maximum of two computers by one person It does not give you the right to rent or sell computer systems on which the software is installed or to rent or sell the software or part of It Once activated the software cannot be refunded unless found to be defective by Atomix Technical Support Licenses purchased on line for instant download through our website or through in app purchases are considered opened at the time of purchase and therefore no refund can be given By clicking on l accept you agree to be bound by the following terms If you don t please click on cancel remove all copies and do not install or use the software 1 PERMITTED USE AND RESTRICTIONS You are granted one license to install and use the Software on one computer VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 1171 install and use the Software on a second computer if this computer is normally used by the same person and the Software will not be used on both c
58. ds or buttons used for Sampler triggering have a pre defined layout Recording a Sample You can record a sample from either a specific deck Master Output or even from the Microphone Input Use the REC buttons available in the GUI Once a Sample is recorded it will be automatically added in the Recordings subfolder of Sampler and its contents will be displayed in the Songs list Samples will be named automatically depending on the source master mic or track s name You can then pre listen to your Sample and choose to add it to a Sampler Bank by dragging and dropping the sample to the Sampler Trigger Pad or List view For more advanced Sampler operations see Sampler Editor VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide MN Automix Automix list is mainly used to either create edit Playlists see Playlists or use the Automix operation Drag n drop tracks from the Songs List or load a saved Playlist Start stop Automix using the a button Once Automix is enabled the first track from the list will be loaded as next to the deck that is currently played on Master Output The Will Play at field will display the time that each track will be played based on the selected Automix type Tracks already played will have grey color for this field The currently playing track from the list will get a blue background color and the next track will be the one below that On the deck that is selected to host the Automix operation the top progress bar
59. e Use the Enter Keycode field only to enter a Keycode provided with an OEM Limited Edition version bundled with several MIDI HID create a VirtualDJ account controllers Log in with VirtualDJ ID _J This is a public or shared computer do not remember me VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NN Once you login all your active purchased Licenses and Subscriptions will be enabled You can choose to add a License of Pro Full Infinity which will provide full access to all the features of the software a Controller License which will provide you the ability to use an external analogue DJ mixer and a MIDI HID controller or a VirtualDJ Pro Subscription which will offer full access to the features of the software for a specific time The Content Unlimited subscriptions will offer you unlimited access to our Audio Video and Karaoke catalogues offered by partnered providers Read more at http www virtuald com buy index html Broadcast The Broadcast tab of Settings is providing all the possible ways to broadcast your mixes over the Internet VirtualDJ Config version 8 0 0 Copyright Atomix Productions 1999 2014 BROADCAST AUDIO EX SELECT INTERFACE Bf vee Gb A A PC TO PC DIRECT RADIO SERVER EPISODES PODCAST START BROADCAST Broadcasting stopped To listen to your broadcast send your friends to httpdevvirtuald com broadcastdidad mm Broadcast directly from your PC Click on the START
60. e added to access additional features of the software and these are associated with your account Use this tab of Settings to view add and manage your Licenses and your Content Unlimited subscriptions LICENSES amp USER ACCOUNT AUDIO me You are not logged in INTERFACE You need to be logged in if you want to see or add licenses LICENSES Current Licenses Unlock a new controller Or buy a full VirtualDJ PRO license ae A q gives you access to any present and future controllers external mixer sound i v UNLOCK THIS CONTROLLER VIRTUALDJ PRO VIRTUALDJ PRO INFINITY SUBSCRIPTION ENTERAKEYCODE depends on controller 299 19 99 month CONTENT UNLIMITED Geta Content Unlimited Plan i CONTENT UNLIMITED CONTENT UNLIMITED CONTENT UNLIMITED AUDIO KARAOKE VIDEO 9 99 month 19 99 month 49 99 month Click on the Login button to receive the Login VirtualD Login ES window The same Login window will be displayed on Langusa aa first launch and it will remember your Login and password across sessions if not logged WELCOME from a different computer in the meantime ION You can choose to login using your VirtualDJ y ID account needs to be prior created in httip www virtuald com users edit html or your Google ID using OpenID ES Log in with Microsoft ID 2 Log in with Google ID lf you choose not login some of the online features of the software will not be available ae Password Not
61. e an Audio Content Unlimited subscription Search using Automatic catalogue If the Content Unlimited folder has no focus a different folder is selected once you type something in the Search field and none of the tracks of your Music Library matches to your input VirtualDJ will automatically search for Content Unlimited tracks The Audio catalogue will be used if Video is disabled otherwise Video and Karaoke catalogues will be used in priority VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 56 Content Unlimited Search options Click on the Search Options button right next to the Search field of Browser to access the Content Unlimited Options menu Search in Folder Search in Drives Search in ContentUnlimited audio Artist Re ContentUnlimited a Automatically select catalog Title Force Audio catalog Artist Force Karaoke catalog FilePath Force Video catalog FileName Force NetSearchAudio catalog Force NetSearchVideo catalog Comment Alburn Only use ContentUnlimited when no local results Genre Use MetSearch when no ContentUnlimited Pro results Use the Force options from menu to force a catalogue and bypass the default automatic selection Disable the Only use ContentUnlimited when no local results option if you wish VirtualDJ to provide results from the service even if the Local Database provides search results Disable the Use Netsearch when no ContentUnlimited Pro results option if you wish VirtualDJ to provide results from
62. e from the right click menu on the VU meters Show wumeter 4 DECKS Selection is made from the Mixer Options button O above the Audio Crossfader Notes Volume faders should be left at maximum position top if External Mixer is selected in the Audio Setup CROSSFADER 2 DECKS Slide the crossfader to route the left or right deck to the Master Output If the crossfader is at the far left side only the left deck will be audible in the Master Output Audio Crossfader 2 Decks If the crossfader is at the far right side only the right deck will be audible in the Master Output At any other position both decks will be audible 4 DECKS 6 DECKS Slide the crossfader to route the left or right assigned deck of the mixer to the Master Output Use the crossfader assign buttons to assign a deck as left or right side of the crossfader Audio Crosstader 4 Decks If the crossfader is at the far left side only the left assigned decks will be audible in the Master Output Crossfader Assign buttons VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 240 lf the crossfader is at the far right side only the right assigned decks will be audible in the Master Output At any other position all right or left assigned decks will be audible If a deck is not assigned as left or right it will be audible regardless of the crossfader position Double click to bring the crossfader to middle position Notes A deck will not be audib
63. e g a silent or a commercial part STRETCH l l Choose if you wish a part of your track to be repeated stretched An editable additional field with a number will be displayed right next the stretch button which indicates how many times the selected part will be repeated Once the selection of the operation is made a resizable and movable marked area will be available on the waveform of the track starting from the Play position green marker The VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 68 marked area will get red color for the Censor yellow for the Remove and green for the Stretch operation Track Cleaner EA TRACK CLEANER Guns N Roses Sweet Child O Mine Eyecon Trap Remix gt hl GD censor X REMOVE gt STRETCH 2 i HA 1 Click to select any of the created marked areas and then click on the button to delete it Finally click on the B button to save your edit A vdjedit file will be created in the same folder as your original track and a special icon will be granted to this file see Browser icons Tips Multiple Censor Remove and Stretch marked areas can be applied on the same track Multiple vdjedit files can be created based on the same original file vdjedit files can be edited using the Track Cleaner as many times as required vdjedit files are automatically added to the Search DB Note Censor Remove and Stretch marked areas cannot be overlapped Move the Play marker to a different posi
64. e that to Automatic to allow VirtualDJ to assign the decks automatically CONTROLLER MAPPING AUDIO Mapping factory default w bel Pioneer DO We s Deck Automatic 1 2 3 43 w INTERFACE 15 Key Action A Mapping custom mapping 1 Mapping custom mapping 1 X Deck Automatic 1 2 3 4 K ignore Automatic 1 2 3 4 Deck factory default 1 2 3 4 custom mapping i1 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 6 deck vinvl mode nn amp derk 1 ofl off deck Avinvl mode r Decks Assign Mapping file selection In the middle section a list with all the available Keys and their assigned actions is offered Click on the Key field header to sort the Keys alphabetically INTERFACE mik STUTTER_SAMPLER_3 SS STUTTER_SAMPLER_4 Action A sampler_bank 3 sampler_bank 4 SYNC sync amp toggle syncON while_pressed OF JOG_TOUCH touchwheel_touch OPTIONS JOG_SEARCH_TOUCH touchwheel_touch wheel_mode search while_pressed JOG touchwheel E JOG_SEARCH param_multiply 400 jogwheel JOG_RIM touchwheel Beene JOG_SEARCH_RIM param_multiply 400 amp jogwheel gt CUE_MIX headphone_mix h EQ_HIGH eg_high BROADCAST EQ_MID eq_mid EQ LOW eq_low YOLUME volume_slider CROSSFADER v crossfader v RECORD SCRASSFANMER Mapping Key list Custom mapping Choose from the top list the device you wish to customize In the Mapping list make sure the Default factory mapping is selected Select a Key from the l
65. eatlock to keep a deck always synchronized with the other decks even if pitch is changed or during scratching VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Mute Reverse backwards see Options 4 DECKS When Timecode Inputs are available in the Audio Setup see Settings additional Timecode panels will be offered in the Scratch Panel to enable disable timecode control for each deck A quality meter offers information about the strength of the timecode signal Note The 2 Decks GUI is offering the Timecode panels on the left and right Deck Control areas Master panel 2 DECKS 4 DECKS 6 DECKS The MASTER panel offers Master Headphones and Microphone Volume controls along When enabled the track will not be audible if scratched moved Timecode Panels 4 Decks with Effects applied on Master Record and Broadcasting operations and Sampler recording from Master Output or Microphone Input Mf mixer H voeo SCRATCH MASTER de YOL MASTER EFFECT Distortion RECORDBROADGAST MIX Master Panel 2 Decks MM mixer MASTER WOL LIM REG A vineo scraTcH VOL MIX MASTER EFFECT Slicer F i A STEP LEN RECORD BROADCAST MIX Recording test mpd Time 00 07 Sre 171 47 KB BCAST Master Panel 4 Decks G MASTER MIC VOL ON REG VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 30 Master Volume Adjust the Volume of the Master Output Double click to set the Master Volume
66. eck A will show again the real song that has been playing on the master output all along and deck B will automatically pause for safety Note Sandbox will not operate in the following cases You are using an External analogue mixer Audio Setup is configured as an external mixer You re already in the middle of a mix more than one song is playing out on Master You have effects samples or loop playing on the active song You re playing video tracks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 60 POI Editor The POI Editor offers all the Points Of Interest that a track may carry such as HotCues Saved Loops Automix points Beatgrid anchors even special points with assigned VirtualDJ script actions POI Editor PO EDITOR Felix Da Housecat ft will i am Burn The Disco Bro Safari Remix BPM 129 999 First Beat Point type Mix Cut Start Mix Ful Sart IA Cue 3 Mix Cut Exit Cue hi Fade Exit Plis Full Exit New position 00 29 552 62 586 beat On the left sided list only the HotCues are listed by default Click on Show all to see all the available POls of the track The top part displays the waveform of the track along with all your POIs as triangle markers Those are indicated by a color depending on the type How to manage POls Click any of the POls from the left sided list or on a triangle marker from the top waveform to select a POI Use a mouse wheel to zoom In Out and the
67. ecorded Sample will be set in Loop Mode Move the red left and right red markers in order to precisely define the phase of the Sample for best syncing results Save the sample and drop it to a Sampler Bank in order to define a Group if necessary Use an existing track Drag and drop a track into a Sampler Bank and right click to open Sampler Editor The entire track will be then displayed Sample Editor SAMPLE EDITOR Li CiWsersiBabis Music Favorite Audio tracksiMartin Garrix Animals Original Mix mp3 SAMPLE Name Mode wioge Martin Garrix Animals Original Mix Group Color Drop VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 74 Use a mouse wheel to zoom in out and the navigation bar to focus to a part that you wish to edit Move the blue left and right vertical lines to define the part of the track that you wish to keep as a Sample Move the green playing marker to any position the 1d buttons to preview your edit b bi py Once the part of the track is defined choose a name or even a Group and a Color Click on the Save button Video Samples lf a video sample or track is opened with the Sampler Editor an additional Video preview window will be available Hover mouse to any position to get its frame displayed on that window Define the area you wish to keep as mentioned above Sample Editor ES SAMPLE EDITOR E Musikvideos Animations filme Dance Animation Dancer Animation film 2 VOB B
68. el Genre Mainstrearn A tag Mainstream Year 2009 Track Grouping MyBests Color 4 tag 2009 4 tag 1 Bpm 130 00 f2 Key FR Gain dB 1 69 pro Wow tag 130 00 A tag FF A tag 3 PlayCount 12 Firstseen 2074 03 21 FirstPlay LastPlay Comment Radio hits 2009 X 2 tag Radio hits 2009 Field Field FILE INFO MENE David Guetta Feat Kelly Rowland When Love Takes Overmp3 FilePath EMusicicdsicdgiortes Filesize 4 73 MB Bitrate 192 kbps Audio MPS MPEG audio layer 3 stereo 44100 Hz 192 kbps 03 27 Prev Mest Write Tag Ok Cancel The top part of the Tag Editor offers the fields of the VirtualDJ Database of the track Most of them are populated from filename iD3tags or VirtualDJ and some are left as user s custom fields Note Ranges from reading just length to reading and writing all tags VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 65 Fields populated from iD3Tags or filename Artist Artist of the track Title Title of the track Remix Remix version of the track Club Edit Extended etc By default these fields are populated from the iD3tag This global behavior can be changed the etTitlesFrom Tags cee setting see Options but for any specific track these fields can be populated from the filename by using the Y button AN Get Artist Title from Filename A tan One Wire ove Fields populated from iD3 Tags if supported from the file type Album Year Track Genre Composer Labe
69. en route each of the available decks to a separated stereo channel of your USB sound card Click APPLY AUDIO SETTINGS INPUT ds ds INTER MAL k SOUHOCARO a TWO SOUNDCARDS SPEAKER STEREO TO MOND HEADPHONE PLITTER EXTERNAL MIXER isi Source Sound ard Channel deck 1 Audio 2 DJ ASIO Asam Chanl amp LICENSES deck 2 Audio 2 DJ SIO Wm Chan 384 2 Channel External Mixer amp USB multi channel sound card Audio Setup 4 DECKS To use 4 VirtualDJ Decks with an external 4 Channel analogue dj mixer a sound card with at least 4 stereo outputs is required Connections 4 Ch External Mixer amp USB multi channel sound card Connections Audio Setup Select the EXTERNAL MIXER and INTERNAL SOUND CARD options Once the Audio Setup is created select your USB sound card from the SoundCard field VirtualDJ will then route each of the available decks to a separated stereo channel of your USB sound card Click APPLY VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide AUDIO SETTINGS OUTPUT E HEADPHONE Ht EXTERNAL MIXER INPUT E INTERNAL g a Di TEE MAL TWO SOUNDCARDS Sh STEREO TO MONO SPLITTER MICROPHOMNE 4 o TIMECODE SIGNAL aa LIME INPUT Source SoundCard Channel fat deck 1 Audio 8DJ A510 ASI Chan1 2 TNH oa LICENSES deck 2 Audio 8 DJ ASIO as Chan 384 x deck 3 Audio DJ CASIO AS F Chan 4 amp 6 T x A h deck 4 Audio 8 DJ ASIO AS Chan788 dl E BROADC
70. eoUseDXVA If set to true the video engine will use Hardware Acceleration DXVA from your video card if available videoMaxMemory Enforce a hard limit on the amount of video memory from the video card VirtualDJ can consume videoDelay Set a delay positive or negative between the video output and the audio output videoWindowAlwaysOnT op Keeps the video window always above all other windows videoAudioOnlyVisualisation Select which visualization plugin will be used when a song with no video track is played and the video output is opened Select which video transition plugin is used to fade between two video VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EIN sources when the video crossfader is moving Select which video fx plugin is currently loaded videoLogo Show a logo on the bottom right corner of the video output you need a VirtualDJ PRO license to be able to remove or change the logo videoLogolmage Select which image is used for the video logo you need a VirtualDJ PRO license to be able to remove or change the logo videoLogoSize Select the size of the video logo you need a VirtualDJ PRO license to be able to remove or change the logo videoLogoPosition Select the position of the video logo you need a VirtualDJ PRO license to be able to remove or change the logo Karaoke karaokeBackgroundMusic Select which folder is used to play background music between karaoke songs when the karaoke mode is active can also be Automix default or sidel
71. erations such as Add to Search DB analyze for BPM etc Choose from the same menu Rename or Delete of you wish to rename or delete a Virtual Folder Ge Club Music Favorite Audio trac Milunes Tips Select click a Virtual folder and choose to Add create a new one if you wish the new one to be nested inside an existing Virtual Folder and create your own Tracks List tree without re organizing a lop 40 My Videos sampler ContentUnlimited folders from your Computer Once a Virtual Folder is created drag and move it to a new position if you wish that to reorder your Folders List Moving a Virtual Folder Notes If a Folder a Favorite folder or another Virtual folder is focused by the time of creation the new Virtual folder will be nested inside that Otherwise the newly created Virtual folder will be added on the bottom of your folders list Adding a track to a Virtual Folder will not move it from its original folder path A Virtual Folder contains only the paths of your tracks and not any actual ones same as creating a Playlist Virtual Folders cannot be nested inside a Filter folder or a Playlist m3u Tunes Crates folder Filter Folders A highly dynamic and creative way to organize a collection of tracks is to apply conditions that automatically filter search the database for tracks that match the criteria outlined VirtualDJ calls these types of folder Filter Folders How to To create a
72. fects Selection List amp Effects Grouping ha Visualisations Y A Once the Effect select button is pressed an Effects der S idi Selection list will be displayed to easily scroll through all the Distortion available Sound Video and Visualization Effects and Echo make your selection The Sound Effects Group will be Flanger expanded by default and the Video Effects Group will be raap ii also expanded if a Video track is loaded to a deck eo 4 Slicer Click on the icon to keep the Effects Selection list backspin visible pined after Effect selection bate eatgrid brake VirtualDJ offers the ability to group and organize your Cut favorite effects FlippinDouble A new Effects Group can be created by right clicking on overloop any of the available Sound Video or Visualization default rA ideotffect Vv groups Once a new Group is created pin i the Effects List and then drag n drop an effect to any of the Groups you have created VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide KTM Deck 1 effects Ea SoundEffact alo Visualisations A Di Create group 4 SoundEffect Ec Refresh gt MyEffectGroup Flanger e j Loop Roll Create group Ea Distortion Echo Phaser Enter name for new group Flanger Reverb Loop Roll Slicer MyEffectGroup Chaser Wahwah Reverb backspin Pied Slicer beatgrid Wahwah brake q a rake Cut Cut FlippinDouble FlippinDouble overloop overloop vocals Y vocals i VideoEffect v Effec
73. ffect along with Volume Faders Audio Crossfader and PFL selection buttons m MIXER m VIDEO SCRATCH MASTER m 8 z pe S MIDI ANN Audio Mixer 2 amp 6 Decks EQ HIGH MID LOW Use the HIGH MID and LOW knobs to adjust the high mid and low equalizer bands of each of the available mixer channels Double click to reset each one of the EQ bands to zero off position Right click to Kill any of the EQ bands The central frequency values of each of the 3 EQ bands can be adjusted from the Options Equalizer VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Notes By default the EQ knobs do not completely cut off kill the frequencies Kill mode can be selected from Options By default the EQ applies on the Master Output EQ can also affect the PFL prelisten channel if the setting is changed see Options FILTER Use the FILTER knobs to apply a Low Pass or a High Pass filter to each of the available mixer channels On middle position no Filter is applied Double click to reset Filter off position FILTER Filter knob Note The resonance of the Low High Pass filter can be adjusted using a custom slider and filter_resonance VirtualDJ script action GAIN Use the GAIN knob to adjust the Gain applied to the loaded track If the knob is to the middle position 12 o clock the output level is set by the software to zero db 0 db by default or other value defined from the i Options The applied gain va
74. gh to mark it as played and the song was in the sidelist remove it from the sidelist browserTextFit How to display large text in the browser when it s too long to fit tracklistFormat format used when writing the tracklist txt file use the same syntax as the skin engine s text elements shelllcons Display the real OS icons instead of the VirtualDJ flat one for regular folders VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 108 Audio audioAutoDetect Keep checking for new devices to detect when a known soundcard is plugged in wasapiSharedMode When set to false VirtualDJ will take exclusive control of your soundcard meaning that all other applications running in the background will stop to make any sound while VirtualDJ is active Automatically goes to the first cue or first beat when a song is loaded autoBPMMatch Automatically change the pitch slider to match the BPM of the other deck when a new song is loaded smart means only when the song has a strong steady beat autoGain Automatically set the gain to make the song s overall volume OdbA when a song Is loaded or remember any previous manual modification of the gain autoKey Automatically change the key when a song is loaded to match the key of the song on the other deck resetPitchOnLoad Automatically reset the pitch to 0 when you load a new song resetEqOnLoad Automatically reset all the equalizers and filter to O when you load a new song resetFXOnLoad Automatically stop all
75. he tracks from other folders and those will separated by an empty line VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide ar O show m Title Ei Show Me Love EF Crunk FF Booyah AS k Arist Robyn Showtek Showtek ft We Are Lou 17 files Search in Folder Search in Drives Search in ContentUnlimited video ContentUnlimited Options Ffi Crunk Original Mix Showtek i The Show Must Go On Queen EF Long Show Opener Title Artist FilePath FileName _ Ej Moonlight Show Mike Oldfield S Ffi Show Me The Way Peter Frampton a Ej The Show Must Go On Queen fj City Of Dreams Showtek Remix Dirty South amp Alesso ft Ej Champagne Showers Clean Quintino Remix Extended Armed LMFAO feat Natalia Kills Fi Booyah Cash Cash Extended Remix Showtek ft We Are Lou FjRun The Show Clean Kat Deluna ft Don Oma FF How We Do Party Clean Mix Show Edit Rita Ora Ffi Stefanie Heinzmann Show Me The Way Radio Edit NINAS OY Comment Album N Genre Year Bpm Key Composer Field1 Field2 Search results Search Options By default VirtualDJ will search within the Artist Title and filepath fields of database but more or different fields can be selected from Search Options to narrow or provide different search results Tips The order of your typing words is irrelevant VirtualDJ will search within the selected fields using all the words that you typed Numeric fields can be also used E g Select BPM from the Sear
76. heel will emulate the sound of a record being scratched when the position is moved In CD mode the jog wheel will bend the pitch when the position is moved Enable Slip mode using the button While Slip Mode is enabled Hot Cues Loops and Scratching will only affect the position of the song temporary and once disabled the song will continue to play from the position it would have been if the Slip Mode had never been enabled Note The CUE button sets a temporary Cue and will not affect the saved HotCues However the temporary Cue point will be saved across sessions for each of your tracks 4DECKS A virtual Jog wheel is available to provide bend or scratch controls of the track Use the control buttons PLAY STOP and CUE to play pause and stop the track or set a temporary Cue point Use the Pitch slider to adjust the tempo BPM of the track The buttons will temporary slowdown speed up the track Pitch Bend Press the button to smoothly synchronize the track of the deck with the opposite deck It will match the BPM of the track and align the CBG Computed Beaitgrid Deck Controls 4 Decks Click on the for decks 1 and 3 or for decks 2 and 4 buttons to set a deck as Left Deck or Right Deck Setting a deck as left or right is mostly used to control 4 decks with a 2 deck MIDI controller Select a deck using the numbered buttons Toggle between the Scratch Vinyl and Bend CD mode using the button In Vinyl
77. ideSongInfo Hide the song s title and artist from the skin if you don t want people behind you to be able to see which tracks you are playing sandboxSplitHeadphones In sandbox mode sends the sandbox master to the left hear of your headphones and the sandbox pfl to the right hear sandboxPreviewOnly In preview only sandbox mode only the song position is reflected in the sandbox volumes crossfaders equalizers and effects are still applied to the main output tooltip Show or hide the tooltips tooltip Delay Delay during which the mouse must stop before the tooltip is shown showCoverForDragDrop show the cover of the files being dragged during drag and drop operations VDJScriptGlobalVariables List of persistent global variables saved by your scripts loadSecurity Ask a confirmation message if you try to load a song on a deck that is already playing crashGuard CrashGuard constantly monitors the VirtualDJ process and silently reboot it without interruption if something goes wrong poiEditorShowAll Show system POls in the POI Editor poiEditorSnap Snap POls to the beat in the POI Editor customButtonWizard Display the information message when the Custom Button Editor is opened for the first time backLoopWizard Display the information message about back loop vs forward loop when a beat loop is used for the first time Browser readOnly Set VirtualDJ in read only mode the databases on the drives will not be modified getTagsAuto Automa
78. ing the default input device of your computer Choose a different sound card in case a multi channel USB sound card is used from the drop down menu of the SoundCard field Click APPLY VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 97 AUDIO SETTINGS INTERNAL A SPEAKER ONLY INTERNAL TWO SOUNDCARDS MICROPHONE SPEAKER STEREO TO MONO T HEADPHONE AY SPLITTER TIMECODE SIGNAL EXTERNAL MIZER LINE INPUT OUTPUT CARD Source Soundcard Channel master w Realtek High Definition Audio WVASAPI w Chan1 amp 2 v xa LICENSES headphones w Realtek High Definition Audio WYASAPD w Chan 3 amp 4 v xx gt gt line in 1 w Realtek High Definition Audio WYASAPD Chan142 v X 7 BROADCAST Timecode What is Timecode Timecode also known as DVS Digital Vinyl system is a special audio signal recorded on a standard vinyl record or audio CD that allows you to use traditional vinyl or non MIDI capable CD decks to control song playback in VirtualDJ VirtualDJ listens to the audio signal coming from the timecode record CD playing on the viny CD deck and can work out the song position what speed it s playing at and which direction allowing this to be replicated on the virtual deck in VirtualDJ This allows you to use traditional DJ hardware to control song playback in VirtualDJ Turntables with timecoded vinyl s and CD players with timecoded CDs can be used to control the VirtualDJ decks Different Timecode systems and compatibility Compatibility between diffe
79. ired Microphone input A microphone may be routed to the Master Output using an input of a multi channel sound card Connections Simply connect a microphone to the input of a sound card Audio Setup Select the MICROPHONE option in order an additional line to be created or create a new by selecting mic from the drop down list of the Source field Select the sound card you have used to connect the mic to from the drop down list in case the default one is not used AUDIO SETTINGS MICROPHONE TIMECODE SIGNAL a LINE INPUT OUTPUT RD CA o N INTERNAL Cin SPEAKER ONLY SA M lirit TWO SOUNDCARDS INTERFACE Q SPEAKER rg STEREO TO MONO HEADPHONE SPLITTER itil EXTERNAL MIXER CONTROL m ERS o o u o z wo fe Source SoundCard Channel master v Realtek High Definition Audio WVASAPH v Chan1 2 Y X Ay LICENSES headphones w Realtek High Definition Audio WYASAPH w Chan 3 amp 4 v xXx gt gt mic w Realtek High Definition Audio WYASAPD v Chan1 amp 2 v X h v BROADCAST Line input An analogue source may be routed to the Master Output using an input of a multi channel sound card Connections Simply connect the analogue source digital player CD player etc to a stereo input of a multi channel sound card Audio Setup Click on the LINE INPUT button or select Line In 1 from the drop down menu of the Source field VirtualDJ will then create an additional line in the Audio Setup us
80. ist to respectively use the Automix playlist or the Sidelist playlist from the SideView karaokeBackgroundlmage Select which image will be F when the background music is playing between karaoke songs karaokeBackgroundVolume Set the volume at which the background music is played between karaoke songs karaokeSkipSilence If set to true automatically skip silences when playing background music in karaoke mode Skins coloredWaveforms Select which color scheme is used on the waveforms to identify the beat vocal and instrumental areas beatCounterRange Set over how many beats the beat counter on the skin is counting default 16 maximized Select if the skin is maximized E use the full desktop 1 use the full desktop including the taskbar 2 or windowed 0 customButtons Actions saved for the various custom buttons and custom knobs skinDisableHWAccel Set to true if you don t want the skin engine to use DirectX acceleration maxSkinFPS Set the number of Frame Per Seconds used by the skin engine Controllers disableBuiltInDefinitions Set to true if you don t want VirtualDJ to use its built in controller list to recognize MIDI or HID devices touchWheelBackspin When true moving a touchweel backward with the touch part pressed and releasing it while the wheel is still spinning backward will continue like if the wheel was still touched until the wheel stops moving to produce a backspin effect touchWheelForwardspin Whe
81. ist or use the Key learn feature Press a button or move a slider from your controller You will see the name of that Key on the top of the Key Learn List Select the Key you need to customize Edit or type a VirtualDJ script action in the Action field Actions are grouped into categories and each action provides a short description and some syntax examples Once start modifying a key a custom mapping will be auto created leaving the default factory one unchanged in order to use and modify again if needed Once your custom mapping is done you can either keep the auto generated name or rename it at will by choosing to Save the mapping file VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 82 RECORD CROSSFADE HELE JOG_TOUCH JOG audio_volumes A A move the crossfader crossfader 0 will only letthe left deck out CUE MIX automix crossfader_curve crossfader 100 will only let the right deck out 7 browser crossfader_hamster config eq_crossfader_high controllers eqg_crossfader_low cues eq_crossfader_mid deck_select headphone_crossfad defines y ideo_crossfader y Documentation Note More details about VirtualDJ script actions and syntax are available in our Wiki pages http www virtualdj com wiki VDJscript htm Documentation button Options VirtualDJ offers a large number of settings to allow you customizing every single feature of the software Settings are categorized for easy navigation and search but ca
82. l Remixer Grouping Cover BPM Key Rating Comment Album the track is associated with Year in which the track was produced The Track s number in the Album Genre of the track Composer of the track Label of the Album Remixer of the track Grouping information of the track Album s Cover image Beats per Minute as analyzed by VirtualDJ or value from Tag if not analyzed Key of the track as analyzed by VirtualDJ popularity rating field on a 5 point system comments about the track Fields populated by VirtualDJ Gain Play Count Gain is auto filled by VirtualDJ once the track is analyzed or played lt indicated the applied gain in order the track to be played on 0 db or different value defined from Options shows how many times the track has been played till now VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 66 First seen shows the date of when the track was first added to the database Last Play shows the date of when track was last played Custom user fields Field 1 Blank database field Fill this with any information you need to store Field 2 Blank database field Fill this with any information you need to store Color Select the color you wish the track to have in the Browser Below each field the corresponding tag s data will also appear if they exist among with a small arrow that allows you to copy that data on the database At the bottom part of the window you can see some useful file information such as Filename
83. lable sections of the default GUI Graphical User Interface or Skin 2 DECKS Burn The Disco gt On LEFT DECK Sampler ContentUni h Karaoke h NetSearct ontent 4 DECKS y Animals bh a3 1 3 03 28 6 La Flanges E Boneless we g 03 05 0 Desktop Es AN My Missit Sermo pub Music Gel avorile Audio tracks L lunes lop EJMy Videos Ex Sampler 3ContentUn miled Search Ar arch Y arch Karaoke arch NetSearc EsDownicaded coment Cloud iTunes Ea history a Playssis ve PERRO fF Crunk H Epic Bl Timber 1 Anenats Bi Demons A es fa Burm Tt ne est hd O Mine blahfeaht esof A Pompe DECK 1 sm 2 108 Toa EJHigh You Are a Bor less E Booyah E Crunk alagi A Timber Animas gt Demons g Ej Sweet Child O Mine biahfeohf eiom Bi Burn The Disco a The Mest Ej Tremor fal Work Bact Ej Pompeii lt lt SA Amst What So Not Steve Aoki Chris Lake amp Tujamo Showtek A We Are Loud 4 Sanny Wisor Silva 4 Quentno Marn Garrix Imagine D Guns Feix Da H acat A y Movement f Boneless Steve Aok Chris Lake Tulamo jon 00D Roma Bpm 137 0 Steve Adio Chris Lake amp Tujamo 128 0 Cash Cash Extended Remix 128 Orginal Mix Lumimox Remix Ihab Roma ral Mi Esos Toma BROWSER AA Edit Onginal Mix Kat Krazy Extended Ma Default 2 Decks Skin view a 14 files Lake amp Tu e Loud 4 va amp Quintino Pitbull ft Ke ha Marlin Garra imagi
84. le on the Master Output if the Volume of the deck is set to the zero position Crossfader should be set in middle position if External Mixer is selected in Audio Setup or can be disabled from the CrossfaderCurve setting in Options Tip The crossfader behavior how channels are mixed can be adjusted from the CrossfaderCurve setting see Options and from the Mixer Options button O in the 4 Decks skin 4 DECKS Mixer Options Click on the button right above the Audio Crossfader to Mixer Order get the Mixer Options list Choose one of the 3 available Mixer orders to get a 1 3 4 2 A different channel layout for the mixer By default the 1 2 3 4 order Ch3 Ch1 left decks Ch2 Ch4 right decks is Level Indicators selected Selection is saved across sessions VU Meter Choose if the Level indicators will display the VU Lasel cupu Crossfader Curve Full meters or the Level meters for each mixer channel Select the Crossfader curve for the Audio crossfader how channels are mixed or reverse the crossfader a hamster Smooth is selected by default i Fake mixer is an indicator not a selection for midi controllers that use this feature If this mode is selected by the hardware unit the mixer of the unit will not control the internal software mixer but the displays will follow its ee movements Mixer Options 4 Decks Scratch Disabled Hamster reversed Video Mixer 2 DECKS 4 DECKS 6 DEC
85. lue will be displayed on the Deck s Info Gain knob area Double click to set the GAIN to the middle position zero db value GAIN When a track is loaded on a deck VirtualDJ will set the Output level of the track to the given zero db value The GAIN knob can be used then to make additional adjustments By default the adjusted value will be remembered next time the same track is loaded Different behavior is offered by changing the AutoGain setting see Options Note VirtualDJ will set the Gain to zero value or saved value if the track is pre analyzed or played before If not the software will set the Gain to its zero value only if the track is not playing by the time the track is fully loaded PFL am Use the PFL buttons to send any of the mixer channels to the iis Prelisten Headphones channel Prelisten button Notes Headphones Output needs to be selected in the Audio Setup Will not affect the pre listening if External Mixer Audio Setup is selected VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EN VOLUME VU Meters Use the Volume faders to control the volume of each one of the available mixer s channels Volume Faders 4 Decks The VU meters can display either the Output level of the deck routed to the mixer or the i Output level of the mixers channel after Volume Faders amp VU meters Volume adjustments VU Meters 4 2 amp 6 Decks Decks 2 amp 6 DB 10 KS Show output levels Selection is mad
86. mote devices on your accept list will be able to interact with your VirtualDJ An Remote Setup guide is available in our website http www virtuald com wiki iIRemote 20Setup 20Guide html The Remote is completely skinnable and use the same skin format as VirtualDJ So you can download Remote skins from this website or easily create one yourself The versatility of the skins means your iRemote can be anything from a turntable like scratch pad on your iPad a drum pad to launch samples a basic play pause loop controller or a playlist monitor to let you work from the bar aer gt default iPhone Skin default iPad Skin Install additional skin from http Awww virtuald com addons skins html category iphone and use the Upload new skin button to load a new skin on your iDevice VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NM E Audio Setup Guide Below are some examples of basic Setups and Audio configuration of VirtualDJ Audio Setup with Speakers Master Only Simply connect a pair of amplified speakers to the Sound output of your computer Use the front green output in case your computer offers more than 1 stereo outputs Note that VirtualDJ will only use a single stereo output Connections Speakers output only Laptop Speakers output only Desktop Audio setup By default VirtualDJ will auto configure on first launch an Audio Setup with Master Output only If not then select the SPEAKER ONLY and INTERNAL SOUND CARD
87. n also be searched from the top Search field Click on the Show Advanced Options to get all the available settings or choose among the most common ones Each time a setting is selected a useful Tip will be displayed on the bottom to help you understand the functionality See Appendix for a detailed list and description of all the available settings VirtualDJ Config version 8 0 0 Copyright Atomix Productions 1999 2014 OPTIONS amp TWEAKS sas Search Restore Factory Default Y ShowAdvanced Options E E browser PA rootFolders A Desktop MyComputer MyMusic Myvideos Sampler ContentUnlimited Cloud Histon Playlists L INTERFACE ContentUnlimitedForceVideo no go ContentUnilimitedForceNetSearchvideo no showVideo no CONTROLLERS lastselectedFolder E MusikvideosiAnimations filme Dance Animation E video start videoOnLoad yes letterBoxing bars videoFPS 30 videoMicroFrames smart LICENSES videoResampleQuality Medium videoCrossfaderLink no h videoCrossfaderAuto yes ET yideo YolumeLink yes videoUseDRVA no LJ videoMaxMemory Automatic 24 JJ videoDelay 0 000000 RECORD videoWindowAlwaysOnTop yes videoWindowPosition 0x0 1920x1040 1920x0 1280x1024 1920x0 400x250 videoAudioOnlyYisualisation REMOTE videoTransition Fade videoFXx Boom videoLogo yes videnl annimanea VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 83 Licenses VirtualDJ 8 is a single core software version with no serial numbers Licenses can b
88. n every ae ree launch and will display all your Tunes E gt ye Playlists in the dedicated Root element of the Music aid Folders list Right click on the Tunes folder to Movies aii Reload the Playlists if changes are done ie alias Recurse a e E 90 s Music ER within Tunes and VirtualDJ is running A e By default it will look for the Tunes library files My Top Rated into the default Tunes folder but a custom Recently Added one may be selected from Options Recently Played y Top 25 Most Played Choose Import iTunes Ratings from the same right click menu if you wish your tracks to keep the Ratings given from iTunes Notes The Tunes root element will not be offered if iTunes is not installed to your computer Even though iTunes Playlists are considered Playlists those cannot be moved copied renamed or deleted within VirtualDJ If you wish to do that you will either need to use Tunes or create m3u Playlists from them see above and then manage them using VirtualDJ Batch operations such as Analyze add to Search DB Load tags etc are offered right click menu options Tip Tunes Playlists will be displayed by default following the os offered order from iTunes You may rearrange the order of your mod Playlists by drag and drop an Tunes Playlist to any position TV Shows inside the Tunes root folder aa My Top Rated Recently Added Crates VirtualDJ will read the Playlists Crates Crates
89. n true moving a touchweel forward with the touch part pressed and releasing it while the wheel is still spinning forward will continue like if the wheel was still touched until the wheel stops moving to VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide an OOO ii peeo controller TakeoverMode Defines how sliders and knob are behaving when the value on the controller doesn t match the value on the skin Instant means as soon as you touch the slider on the controller VirtualDJ will use the controller s position Pickup means that the controller s slider has no effect until it reaches the current skin s position at which point both positions become linked again Gradual means that when you move the controller s slider it will moves the skin s slider in the same direction to gradually match both positions controller akeoverModePitch Defines how the pitch slider on the controller is behaving when it doesn t match the software pitch value Instant means as soon as you touch the slider on the controller VirtualDJ will use the controller s position Pickup means that the controller s slider has no effect until it reaches the current pitch at which point both pitch become linked again Gradual means that when you move the controller s slider it will moves the software s pitch in the same direction to gradually match both positions Relative means that when you move the controller s slider it will move the software s pitch in the same direction and
90. n your virtualdj com account some features won t be available if you disable this internetDontConnect sendHistory Help improve VirtualDJ by sending anonymous statistics about which controller you use which skin etc sendAnonymousStats autoRefreshDRM Automatically refresh the DRM of your Content Unlimited downloaded song when they are near expiration netsearchVideoQuality Quality and size of the video files that Netsearch Video will download Automix Force the Automix engine to use one particular mode automixMode fadeLength automixRepeat automixAutoRemovePlayed automixDualDeck Performance sampleRate ultraLatency Length in seconds of the transition when using fade Automix type If true the Automix playlist will repeat from the beginning when it reaches the end If true files will be removed from the Automix playlist when they get played If true use both deck and the crossfader to perform the Automix instead of doing everything on a single deck Force the internal samplerate lf set to auto VirtualDJ will use the samplerate recommended by your sound card If you are playing a lot of MP3 files we recommend using a 44100 samplerate If you are playing a lot of VOB videos we recommend using 48000 As a rule a bigger samplerate DOES NOT mean a better sound quality on the opposite The best quality is when your source file internal samplerate and sound card all use the same value And since y
91. nd Headphones to Chan 3 amp 4 of the Pioneer Audio Interface Advanced Audio Settings The middle section of the Audio Setup provides a detailed list of the current audio Setup Each time a choice is made using the top Output Sound Card and Input tabs lines are auto generated in this area using the default soundcard of your computer Use the fields of these lines to modify the Source Master Headphones Decks Line Inputs and Microphone etc the Sound card and its channels you wish to apply to each Source VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide MA Source Sound Card Channel master Y Realtek High Definition Audio WASAFI Chani amp T H headphones Realtek High Definition Audio MAS PI Chan 3 amp 4 oK r Multiple Audio Setup profiles Each time a different Audio Setup is created using the buttons from the top tabs or the detailed list it is stored as config 1 default name You can then choose to rename and save the current Setup in order to create multiple ones and restore them from the list on the right bottom of this window sie detected Wy Home Setup he Club Setup Audio Setup Profiles Once the desired Sound setup is created click APPLY to enable it Note A detailed Audio Setup Guide with examples is offered in the Appendix Graphical User Interface The Interface tab of Settings offers the available Graphical User Interfaces GUI or Skin Each time you mouse is over a skin a preview image and a few details fo
92. nding on the tracks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NM Y SmartCut O Fade remove intro outro Attempts to remove the Pade EE OS dead air intro or outro segments and creates a as crossfade point based on the selected Automix Length Fade remove silence Keeps the entire track from beginning to end while removing any dead air or silence that may be present in the track and creates a crossfade point based on the selected Automix Length Fade remove nothing Keeps the entire track from beginning to end and creates a crossfade point based on the selected Automix Length None back to back This is a simple cut mix that plays the files from complete start to finish including any air gaps at the beginning or end Fade remove nothing Mone back to back Automix Length Length used for the Automix Fade types Lengths are 0 seconds cut or 1 2 4 8 or 16 seconds fades using the full crossfade Repeat Enable this option if you wish the List to be repeated once reaches the end Auto remove played Choose if the already played tracks from Automix operation will be automatically removed from the list or kept Clear Remove all tracks from Automix List Shuffle Play the tracks in a random order Remove already played Remove the tracks already played from Automix or not Remove duplicates Remove the duplicated tracks of the list Save Save the current list as a Playlist VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NON Karaoke This area is
93. ne es Bess Mall Signal a ST erect Detection E Perfect Detection A Perfect Position A 01 14 Position E 00 46 sec PP 99 35 a MEMES f f N fi A ATAU RURtATAT ATA ide U N j vu y r TIMECODE 1 TIMECODE 2 ae ATA hf An A NABNAN ana ll y J LJ j if Y y j pi j J Hy Y j U j i n nh ARA r Noanadiiliatiiaaallitiadiana dl AH A MANN o na lanas Fata AT AAT ARTA Thar AT AAA RCRA y Y y j u YY T i AK fi A f A fi NA A A A h it J 1 J J AMAN pS APA uv yoy Y U h A oe I II l ATATEN VAR A Vy fi i fi H HHHH RAR TATATA PATA TATATATA TATATA TATATA TATATA TATATATATATATAT 14 Y J J Y r n r AO AAN a ae ee AAAA AAA OE OO ANA A A rh fy ETE 1 Uy U Timecode Settings Timecode is auto configured based on the selected Timecode type so there is not much that you need to tweak Simply choose the type of your Timecoded Vinyl or CD and VirtualDJ will auto configure the necessary settings Just make sure that the Turntable or the CD player is running spinning by the time of configuration Choose the timecode mode Smart Absolute and Relative depending on your needs VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide RUN When Timecode is part of the applied Audio Setup additional Timecode panels will be available in the GUI of VirtualDJ showing the strength of the signal along with buttons to turn on off the timecode control Timecode
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95. nected Note MIDI HID controllers are available only if a Pro Full Infinity or a controller specific license is available See Settings Licenses otherwise the controller will work only for 10 minutes each time you launch the software VirtualDJ Config version 8 0 0 Copyright Atomix Productions 1999 2014 CONTROLLER MAPPING AUDIO Keyboard o O OE Mapping factory default Pioneer DDJ WWeGO INTERFACE Key Action A 9 loop_double CONTRO iS 0 reloop ALT 1 goto_cue 1 OF ALT 2 goto_cue 2 OPTIONS ALT 3 goto_cue 3 ALT 4 goto_cue 4 ALT 5 goto_cue 5 ALT 6 goto_cue 6 EEE ALT 7 goto_cue 7 gt ALT 8 v goto_cue 8 h ALT 9 goto_cue 9 BROADCAST ALT 0 goto_cue 10 CTRL 1 set_cue 1 CTRL 2 set_cue 2 CTRL 3 set_cue 3 RECORD REMOTE audio_volumes A cue_stop a Gotothe specified cue Example goto_cue 1 goto_cue 1 automix delete_cue goto_cue 1 browser get_cue goto_cue will jump to the currently selected last used cue config controllers has_cue hot_cue deck_select lock_cues defines y set_cue y Documentation i Each one of the connected devices offers Ignore and Factory default mapping in the Mapping List Set a device to Ignore if you need to use that with a different application running with VirtualDJ at the same time VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NN Choose from the Deck List the decks you wish to control with each one of your connected devices Leav
96. nel The ReWire slave application can be selected in the soundcards drop down menu A list of virtual ReWire channels will appear for this application the same way as the physical soundcard inputs do Once the Audio Setup is done activating the AUX button on the GUI for the ReWired deck will route the audio from the slave application to the VirtualDJ mixer The audio from the slave application is also routed to a VirtualDJ deck and can be mixed in real time with the other VirtualDJ decks Also the Rewired deck will display the Beatgrid and the tempo BPM of the audio that comes from the ReWire slave application in real time More advanced setups with more than one ReWired decks and more than one ReWire slave applications is also possible In the following picture Ableton Live is routed to Line 3 deck 3 and Reason is routed to line 4 deck 4 VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 102 AUDIO SETTINGS OUTPUT AUDIO e SEA Se Aur mol ee l y TWO SOUNDCARDS INTERFACE SOUNDCARD P SPEAKER STEREO TO MONO HEADPHONE SPLITTER Ht EXTERNAL MIZER U MICROPHONE TIMECODE SIGHA amp L CONTROLLERS o OPTIONS E source Soundcard Channel master Speakers High Definition Audio Device WWASAPH Chan 1 amp 2 T H LICENSES line in 3 Ableton Live REVWIRE tix LAR T H line in 4 Reason REWIRE Y MWikxl amp R T H BROADCAST Rewire Audio Setup In this example VirtualDJ deck 2 is loaded with an audio tr
97. new Filter Folder click on the Y button from the left sided Toolbar of the pci Browser A pop up window will be then offered to type a name for the new Filter Folder Click OK Saline Most Played Right after the creation the Filter Folder will Recently Added My Top List appear on the bottom of your Folders List VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 53 In the next offered window type your filter criteria inside the Filter box Lists with the available fields and operators are available on the bottom of that window along with some examples to help you with the syntax Notice in the background that the content of the Filter Folder is automatically filled with tracks that match your filter as you type in that field Filter Folders Examples Filter isscanned 1 or isscanned 0 top 100 nbplay top 100 firstseen bpm gt 120 and bpm lt 130 year gt 1980 and year lt 1990 days since lastplay lt 31 lastplay 0 or Play Count 0 Play Count gt 1 type video or video or karaoke hascover 1 or hascover 0 Filter folder Filter top 100 play count example of filters top 20 play count group by genre artist contains guetta and year gt 2000 group by artist with lastplay 207207 15 etC Available fields Operators Already Played Artist Bom Difference Color Comment Composer doesn t contain hy Filter Folder syntax window Expected result Offers all tracks of Database th
98. ng MyMix mp3 Time 00 Size 183 i E Select the Format of the recorded file and click on the _ button to select the filename and the path of the recorded file Formats Description MP3 default Record audio in MP3 format By default the quality is set to MID 192 audio format Kbs A different quality can be selected from the option recordQuality in Advanced Options under the group Record low 128Kbs mid 192Kbs high 320Kbs OGG alternate Record audio in OGG format Alternative format to mp3 better audio format quality less file size than mp3 By default the quality is set to MID 160 Kbs A different quality can be selected from the option recordQuality in Advanced Options under the group Record low 112Kbs mid 160Kbs high 192Kbs FLAC lossless Record audio in FLAC format The file is compressed to smaller audio format filesize but without any loss in quality FLAC files size are smaller than corresponding PCM encoded WAV files at the same quality VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 87 WEBM default Record video in WEBM format video format MP4 alternate l Record video in MP4 format video format Once the filename and format are set press the START STOP RECORD button to start stop the recording Recorded File Click on the button to Recorded File receive to get additional operations for the File Info recorded file Show in explorer show in browser File Info Opens
99. ng these buttons for OK __ Don t show again Custom Buttons Pop up Window Once this window is closed the Button Editor Es Custom Button Editor will action effect active Beatgrid appear All available VirtualDJ Actions are grouped by S aoe aa Category and the side iim ANETTE ai specty an effect by name Description will help you to sore effect disable ali ose a different effect sot Ceffect 3 choose the one you need along mero a a mand with some syntax tips The Action P ora field is also Auto Fill CT eet let Documentation Add a short description in the Button name BTGRD fr Button name box to see that on the Button If no name is typed Custom Button Editor the Action will be used as the button text BTGRD After closing the Button Editor the Custom Buttons on the GUI will now operate the assigned actions Similar operation is applied for the Custom Knob Custom Buttons 2 amp 6 Decks Custom Buttons 4 Decks Note More details about VirtualDJ script actions can be found in our website http www virtuald com wiki VDJScript VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EN Mixing Controls The Center panel of the GUI offers 4 sub panels MIXER VIDEO SCRATCH and MASTER M MIXER A vineo SCRATCH pees Audio Mixer 2 DECKS 4 DECKS 6 DECKS The MIXER panel offers a 2 or 4 channel Audio Mixer with HIGH MID and LOW Equalizer knobs GAIN knobs FILTER knobs to control the resonance Filter e
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101. ntage Range of the Pitch slider Control Buttons Behavior Play Stutter Play Pause Cue Standard Cue hold to play Cue inverted CUP Play Stop and Cue buttons can behave differently depending on the selected Mode Control Buttons Description Play Stutter In this Mode the Play button behaves like Play Stutter the song will keep playing from the last Cue and the Stop button behaves like Pause Stop pauses the song if playing and cycles through the available Cue points if paused Play Pause In this Mode the Play button behaves as Play Pause toggles between Play and Pause and the Stop button behaves like Stop will pause the song and return to the previous Cue if playing and will cycle through the available Cue points if paused VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 14 Cue Standard CUE Cue hold to play CUH Cue inverted Advanced Deck Controls Will stop the song at the previous Cue point and will preview the song as long as it is held if the song is paused Will stop the song at the previous Cue point and will preview the song as long as it is held if the song is paused If held more than 3 seconds the song will continue to play once the button is released Will stop the song at the previous Cue point and will stay paused as long as the button is held In this area Advanced Deck Controls can be found such as Hot Cues Effects Loops and Custom buttons and sliders 2 DECKS 6 DECKS Each one of the
102. ntrol buttons to play pause stop the track and see in the Video preview window how the overlay looks Drag the green vertical line Play marker to move inside the track Finally click on the O button to save your file A vdjedit file will be created in the same folder as your original track and a special icon will be granted to this file see Browser Icons Note Empty areas of the original track will be filled with the Artwork of the track if exists in case the original track is an audio one How to overlay Text to a track Once a track is loaded on the Video Editor choose the text overlays tab on the left side of the Video Editor Video Editor VIDEO EDITOR Dancer Ar ii mation film 1 Dancer 4nimation film 2 as 48 ee Welcome tour Club OVERLAY iy i OVERLAY gt Pl VIDEO tT TEXT ty B video overlays text overlays Text Font Arial y Welcome to our Club _ Border Color white Shadow Fx None v VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide a Type the text you need to overlay inside the Text box Choose the font and the color along with border and shadow if needed from the right sided options Optionally apply one of the available Fx to rotate zoom float or even shake and strobe your text as the track will play Use the mouse to create select the area red where you need your text to apply Move and resize the area using your mouse ir OVERLAY Once the area is defined click on the
103. o a VirtualDJ deck or can be cached See Content Unlimited m Downloading A Content Unlimited or Netsearch track is currently downloading VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EJ Side Toolbar Apart from the Folder operations previously mentioned the Side Toolbar on the left vertical side of the Browser offers global Browser features Browser Options Click on the Obrowser Option button to receive a Show only menu with the following Options Display list as Root elements Database Show Music Show only l l l Use this to show hide Music Videos or Karaoke Show Video files Show Karaoke If any of these options are selected additional Filter buttons will appear on the side toolbar to easily select the desired filter 7 Display list as v List Rs j iii Choose between the List View default and Grid Grid view View with large icons for Touchscreens Desktop Root elements o Select which Root elements your Folders List will MyComputer show MyMusic MyWideos Sampler ContentUnlimited SIsisisis sisis s sis s Cloud History Playlists LiveFeedback Note iTunes and Crates elements may still not appear Crates ah 2 ee on your Folders List if the relative applications are not iTunes installed in your Computer Remove missing files from search DB Database Choose Remove missing files from Search DB to clean the Search DB from files no longer exist Import DJdecks database VirtualDJ 8
104. oints of the Loop Use the buttons to half or double the size of the loop The size of the loop is visible along with a loop progress Bar Use the Length round slider to adjust the size of the loop to a non seamless one and or the Move round slider to move the loop to a new position Extended Loop View The REC button will instantly record the Loop if enabled as a Sample Other Loop Controls SAVE Save the selected Loop to a Saved Loop Slot POI LOAD Load Enable the Saved Loop POI ROLL Loop Mode When enabled all the Loop actions will control Loop Rolls the song will return to the position where it would have been if the Loop was never triggered BACK Loop Mode When a Loop is set by a number of beats e g 4 beats the loop ends on the current position AUTO or Smart Loop Automatically adjust the loop points when set a manual loop to make the loop seamless Note Multiple Saved Loops can be achieved via Custom Buttons VirtualDJ Script actions and in custom skins 4 DECKS Use the Loop IN and Loop OUT buttons to set the entry and exit points of the Loop Use the buttons to half or double the size of the loop The size of the loop is visible along with a loop progress Bar Other Loop Controls ROLL Loop Mode When enabled all the Loop actions will control Loop Rolls the song will return to the position where it would have been if the Loop was never triggered AUTO or Smart Loop Automatic
105. older as a Favorite one or right click on the same folder and choose this option from the offered menu The Favorite folder will be then added at the bottom of your Folders List as a clone and will get a special icon Favorite folders are mainly used to provide quick access to folders that you frequently visit and get constantly updated along with the original folder monitored My Top List Recently Added My Videos Recurse Top 40 sampler Rename faworite Batch Remowe from faworites ContentUnili File operations Cloud Lists lunes Recurse Batch Create sub folder Normal Folder same folder set as Favorite Right click on a Favorite Folder to Remove or Rename it can have a different name from the original or even create a subfolder and other offered Batch operations such as Add Remove to from Search DB analyze for BPM etc Notes Favorite Folders will carry all their sub folders along with all the nested Virtual or Filter Folders Any changes done on either the original or the Favorite folder will apply on both Content Unlimited Unlike regular consumers who buy their favorite music tracks one by one on Tunes or Beatport DJs have very different needs When you work a gig or even just practice at home you need more than just your favorite top 20 tracks Probably hundreds if not thousands of tracks may be needed some of them you might play once or twice in your life and never see
106. omputers at the same time make back up copies of the Software for archival purposes This license does NOT allow you to rent lease sell lend distribute transfer publish bundle or sublicense the Software or any part of It rent lease sell lend or distribute hardware on which the Software is installed unless specifically authorized by Atomix Productions electronically transfer the Software from one computer to another or over a network decompile reverse engineer disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software to a human perceivable form modify the Software or create derivative works based upon the Software Unless you have an additional Pro license which is still active and valid at the time of use this license does NOT allow you to use the software for an activity that results in payment or compensation such as but not limited to performing as a remunerated DJ in a nightclub wedding or private party or any use that could be considered a commercial use This license is personal and once used is linked to the user and cannot be transferred leased sold or given to another person 2 OWNERSHIP The foregoing license gives you limited rights to use the Software Atomix and its suppliers retain all right title and interest including all copyrights in and to the Software and all copies thereof All rights not specifically granted in this EULA including International Copyrights are reserved by Atomix
107. on Sandro Silva amp Quintino Far East Movement ft Guns N Roses Felix Da Housecat ft will i am C Remix Original Mix Steve Aoki Chris Lake amp Tujamo Original Mix Kat Krazy Extended Mix Original Mix R3hab Remix Hardwell Rambo Edit Cash Cash Extended Remix Luminox Remix Explicit Eyecon Trap Remix Bro Safari Remix f Desktop Computer My Music RECON Computer Desktop My Music My Videos some dedicated VirtualDJ folders Content Unlimited Cloudlists Livefeedback Playlists History Sampler along with some popular 3rd party software folders iTunes Serato Crates The visible Root elements folders can be selected from the Browser Options on the Side Toolbar Side Toolbar Folders List Operations de Favorite Folder O Virtual Folder Filter Folder Goto Last folder MW Club Music BiFavorite Audio tracks UMES Ba lop 40 My Videos Sampler ContentUnlimited Cloud Lists Ex History Playlists LiveFeedback Crates iTunes Create a Virtual Folder unmonitored Create a Filter folder monitored Goes to the last used folder 128 0 128 0 128 0 127 5 137 olg 128 08 130 0 90 0 128 0 128 0 140 0 142 0 139 6 130 0 Mark a specific Folder as Favorite and add it to the Folders list for quick access monitored VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 33 Right click on Favorite Virtual or Filter Folders to rename it delete edit or other batch Dat
108. on the Sample in List View or use sampler Editor Lalo 2 Tiamo CTRL Click in Trigger Pad View Assign to group JA None Choosing New Group VirtualDJ will Remove automatically name this as Group 1 and will auto number your next new groups Albi Note Groups are Bank independent Groups created in different Banks will not be offered as options in the right click list Trigger Mode Click on the Sampler Options button on the IA top right side and choose one of the i available Trigger Modes triggermode gt W on off audio output gt hold On Off Press a Sampler Pad to start wes stutter playing a sample from the beginning Press ere unmute the same Sample pad again to stop the sample Sampler Trigger Mode List Hold The Sample will play from the beginning as long as the Sampler Pad is pressed Stutter The Sample will play from the beginning each time you trigger a Sampler Pad Right click to stop the Sample Unmute The Sample will be muted if the Sampler Pad is not pressed Right click to stop the Sample Note Trigger Mode is a global selection applies to all Banks However a Group can have its own trigger mode see Sampler Editor VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 40 Audio Output By default Sampler is routed to the Master amp Headphones Outputs or all decks if an External mixer audio setup is chosen However a different output can be chosen from the Sampler Options menu You can choose to ro
109. options VirtualDJ will then route the Master Output to the 1st stereo channel of your computer s built in sound card Click APPLY AUDIO SETTINGS OUTPUT CARD o A INTERNAL SPEAKER ONLY pon MARNE TWO SOUNDCARDS Q SPEAKER ra STEREO TO MONO HEADPHONE SPLITTER is Source SoundCard Channel master w Realtek High Definition Audio VASAPI v Chan1 amp 2 v LICENSES v la Speakers output only Audio setup Audio Setup with Speakers Master amp Headphones prelisten The default Audio Setup with Master Output only will get you started initially But if you wish to use headphones so that you can play one track to the crowd and listen to the next track in headphones you will need to utilize one of the following configurations VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NN a Your computer has a single stereo output and you wish to listen Master Output through your computer s built in speakers In this case you will need a single stereo USB sound card to connect your Headphones Connections Speakers amp Headphones with USB sound card Connections Audio Setup Select the SPEAKER HEADPHONE and TWO SOUND CARDS options VirtualDJ will then route the Master Output to the 1st stereo channel of your computer s built in sound card and Headphones to the 1st stereo channel of your USB sound card Click APPLY AUDIO SETTINGS oo All OUTPUT INPUT U MICROPHONE TIMECODE SIGNAL 0 LINE INPUT
110. ou can change the value of the soundcard and of VirtualDJ but not of the source files you should set the value that matches most of your files mp3 are 44100 videos are 48000 Set to true to minimize the latency when using ASIO or DirectX sound drivers by writing audio before the safe recommended point If you hear some cracks in ASIO or DirectX try to turn this off VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EKI overclock On old systems make sure that the internal clock is running as fast as possible to ensure accurate sound behavior maxPreloadLength Prevent overloading your memory by not fully preloading any song that is longer than this value in minutes Set to 1 to always preload pitchQuality Choose which algorithm to use when pitching scratching mastertempo O means fastest 1 means good scratch 2 means good scratch and good master tempo scratchFilterQuality Choose the quality of the algorithm used for the scratching The bigger the value the better Default is 8 cpuMeter Show in the CPU meter how fast the whole system is running or how fast the audio subsystem is running Timecode timecode Type Select which timecode brand is being used timecodeMode Select which timecode mode is being used Relative means only the direction speed of the timecode is used Smart means the position is always enforced Smart means a smart combination of both timecodeLeadInTime Add more empty time in the beginning of the timecode to let you sc
111. pending on your catalogue selection faHistory O david guetta love over 30 files david guetta 84 files 3 doors down 14 files Title Artist Be Like That 3 Doors Down When I m Gone 3 Doors Down t Here Without You 3 Doors Down t Let Me Go 3 Doors Down Behind Those Eyes 3 Doors Down amp Here By Me 3 Doors Down t Landing In London 3 Doors Down Featuring Bob Seger t Live For Today 3 Doors Down t Citizen Soldier 3 Doors Down t It s Not My Time Won t Go 3 Doors Down t Train 3 Doors Down Title Artist Title Artist i J When Love Takes Over David Guetta amp Bad Lyric Video 70 128 Clean David Guetta n Showtek ft Vassy 47 When Love Takes Over feat Kelly Rowland David Guetta amp Bad Lyric Video 70 128 HD Clean David Guetta n Showtek ft Vassy J Gettin Over You David Guetta gt Shot Me Down Lyric Video Club Clean David Guetta ft Skylar Grey J When Love Takes Over Ft Kelly Rowland David Guetta gt Shot Me Down Lyric Video Club HD Clean David Guetta ft Skylar Grey 3 J Gettin Over You Feat Chris David Guetta g amp Shot Me Down Lyric Video Single HD Clean David Guetta ft Skylar Grey amp J When Love Takes Over Feat Kelly Rowland David Guetta 8 Shot Me Down Lyric Video Single Clean David Guetta ft Skylar Grey amp When Love Takes Over Original Mix David Guetta Feat Kelly Ro Bad Lyric Video Club Clean David Guetta n Showtek ft Vassy JP Gettin Over
112. pm 120 Gain Transparency g fe gt A transparency for the Video Output can be defined by selecting the color and the strength You may then save the Sample as Audio only video only or both E OOO Tot Gain L Transparency R Pitched Track Sample Type Audio video Video Sample Transparency VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide al Automix Editor The Automix Editor will offer the ability to edit the automatic process of the Automix feature and bypass the selected Automix Type for any pairs of your tracks The Automix Editor is available in the Automix view of SideView Playlist Options menu Once Automix Editor is opened all the tracks of the Automix list will be displayed on the left side and can be selected by pairs On the right side a timeline will be created to show how the tracks will be mixed and with what order The top left time value indicates the current time position of the Play marker green vertical line The top right time value will indicate the total time of your Automix and will be updated along with your edits AutoMix Editor AUTOMIX EDITOR 04 46 94 23 59 23 Bastille Pompeii Britney Spears Work Bitch Clockwork Tremor Far East Movement ft The Il Felix Da Housecat ft will i am Guns N Roses Sweet Child C gt ER 4 MATCH BPM gt D RESET OFF How to edit Select any of the available pairs of songs from the left sided list
113. puts is required For Timecode vinyl a soundcard designed with phono preamps is required Connections Connect your turntables to the Phono inputs or your CD Players to the LINE inputs of your sound card Timecode and External mixer Connections Audio Setup Select the EXTERNAL MIXER INTERNAL SOUND CARD and TIMECODE SIGNAL options Once the Audio Setup is created select your USB sound card from the SoundCard field VirtualDJ will then route each of the available decks to a separated stereo channel of your USB sound card and the timecode inputs to the inputs of your USB soundcard Use the setup utility of your sound card and make sure that the Inputs are muted don t go through the Outputs Click APPLY VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 99 STEREO TO MONO SPLITTER JO Source SoundCard Channel deck 1 Mayad4 USBAudio ASIO driver ASIO Asm Out1 amp 2 IX a OPTIONS deck 2 Mayad4 USBAudio ASIO driver ASIO asa Out3 amp 4 rx timecode 1 Mayad4 USBAudio ASIO driver ASIO BSW In122 T X ig a timecode 2 Mayad4 USBAudio ASIO driver ASIO ASIN gt In324 ox A r LICENSES gt Timecode amp External mixer Audio Setup Once the Audio Setup with the Timecode Inputs is applied an additional tab in the Settings will be available Click on that tab to open the Timecode settings window TIMEC DE TIMECODE SETTINGS TIMECODE lt INTERFACE mm MUERE virtualdj y MENE virtualdj
114. r Type a name to create a new Group or add the same to an existing one using the Drop down selection list Click on the Color field to select the color that the Sample will have in the Trigger View If a sample is part of Group the color selection will apply automatically to all the samples of the same Group Trigger Select one of the available Trigger modes If the Sample is part of a Group the selection will apply to all the samples of that Group On Off Press a Sampler Pad to start playing a sample from the beginning Press the same Sampler pad again to stop the sample Hold The Sample will play from the beginning as long as the Sampler Pad is pressed VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 73 Stutter the Sampler will play from the beginning each time you trigger a Sampler Pad Right click to stop the Sample Unmute The Sample will be muted if the Sampler Pad is not pressed Right click to stop the Sample How to create a Sample from an existing track Record a Loop Play a track on a deck and create a loop While the track is on loop click on the Rec button you will find in the Advanced Loop panel A Sample will be then created and listed in the Recordings folder Right click and choose Sampler Editor Sample Editor E SAMPLE EDITOR Recordings Animals Source C Users Babis Music Favorite Audio tracks Martin Garrix Animals Original Mix mp3 SAMPLE Name Mode Loop Pitched Sync Start Sync Lock The r
115. r the skin will be shown on the right side Click to choose and load the desired skin The default skins offer 2 4 and 6 Decks versions along with a Touch skin mainly for touch screen users VirtualDJ Config PR 8 0 0 TN a E 1999 2014 GRAPHICAL INTERFACE finternal American Audio MxR 19 Pioneer DDJ WeGO Pioneer XDJ R1 Reloop Ti Stanton SCS1 Touchskin Vestax CI400 VirtualDJ 7 2 Decks VirtualDJ 7 4 Decks VirtualDJ 7 6 Decks a VirtualDJ 8 touch A 4 Decks LICENSES 6 Decks mh BROADCAST RECORD VirtualDJ 8 Decks 2 decks Res solution 1920x10 Author At Productions D y 2 m Made for Comment VirtualDJ 8 default skin 2 Decks EN Download more skins eS m a a ii Iam iI Imr a VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 80 Notes Additional skins can be downloaded from registered licensed users from our website at http www virtualdj com addons skins html Custom skins can be created Read how to at http www virtualdj com wiki Skin 20SDK 20 html Controllers VirtualDJ 8 comes with predefined mapping for most of the MIDI HID DJ Controllers more than 120 in the default installer and more can be downloaded from the website but the mappings can be easily changed and tweaked to your liking In Controllers tab of Settings all connected MIDI and HID devices will be listed on the top left list Only Keyboard will be available if no MIDI HID device is con
116. ratch past the beginning of the song without losing the timecode VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 115 Legal Information Website httip www atomixproductions com Website http www virtuald com Atomix Productions Inc Los Angeles CA 90036 USA VirtualDJ Copyright Copyright 1997 2010 Atomix Productions All Rights Reserved Number IDDN FR 001 040012 01 R C 2000 000 31400 Trademarks The VirtualDJ Logo is a registered trademark of Atomix Productions VirtualDJ is a registered trademark of Atomix Productions License and restrictions According to the EULA End User License Agreement accepted by every user upon installation of VirtualDJ You MAY NOT make or distribute copies of VirtualDJ or electronically transfer VirtualDJ from one computer to another over a network You MAY NOT decompile reverse engineer disassemble or otherwise reduce VirtualDJ to less than human perceivable form You MAY NOT modify or create derivate works from VirtualDJ You MAY NOT sell to rent to transfer or sublicense the software You may not sell to rent to transfer or sublicense hardware on which the software is installed without written prior agreement of Atomix Productions VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 116 End User License Agreement SUMMARY Default Home license The default Home free license gives you the right to install the software on your private computer and use it for personal use only lt
117. rating system software and or equipment compatible with the Licensed Software and iii the installation use and results obtained from the Licensed Software Further for the express purpose of limiting the liability against Atomix you agree that to the maximum extent permitted by law ATOMIX SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS BUSINESS INTERRUPTION LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WHETHER DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL CONSEQUENTIAL SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION EVEN IF ATOMIX HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES 7 GENERAL PROVISIONS The software is protected by the copyright laws of the U S and other countries If any part of this agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable the remaining terms will stay in effect This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state of Delaware USA Reproduction of this manual in full or in part without written permission from Atomix Productions is prohibited VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 119
118. rent timecode systems is not guaranteed Every DJ software with timecode support can have its own timecode However unlike other DJ software that can only use one type of timecode signal VirtualDJ in addition to its own timecode media is also compatible with most of the popular timecode systems including Serato timecode vinyl and CD and Traktor first generation timecode viny s It is important that the correct timecode type is selected from the Timecode dropdown menu depending on the loaded timecode media otherwise the timecode reading and decoding will be incorrect and will not function as expected Timecode Modes VirtualDJ supports the two main timecode modes as found in most timecode systems But there is also a unique mode in VirtualDJ called Smart Mode and it is the default mode In Absolute mode the timecode player turntable or cd is the master and VirtualDJ responds to playback position changes needle drop pitch changes and scratches when performed from the timecode player Timecode Vinyl or cd Pitch change and Sync from the software are not allowed in this mode However VirtualDJ switches automatically to the more flexible Smart mode when loops or HotCues are performed from the software or the Timecode media and it switches back to Absolute mode when the timecode media restarts from the beginning VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide NOM In Relative mode VirtualDJ does not respond to playback position changes
119. rt Track In SearchDB Bprn Difference Exists Key Difference Loaded On Bitrate Type Year Color Play count Will play at First seen Singer VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EN Right click on any of the available tracks to receive additional file features and operations j Load on b Deck 1 Tag Editor Deck 2 BPM Editor POls Editor Video Editor Track Editor Re Analyze File operations gt Open in Explorer Remove from search DB Rename Delete Move to Copy to Load on Choose the VirtualDJ Deck you wish to load the selected track to Tag Editor Open the Tag Editor to view and edit all the information of the track see Tag Editor BPM Editor Open the BPM Editor to adjust the BPM and the CBG phase of the selected track see BPM Editor POI Editor Open the POI Editor to manage all the details of the track s POls see PO Editor Video Editor Open the Video Editor to overlay Text and Video to the selected track see Video Editor Track Cleaner Open the Track Cleaner to cut censor and edit the selected track see Track Cleaner Re analyze Scan the selected track and re calculate the BPM Key and length of the selected track File Operations Move Copy Delete or Rename the selected track or show the track in Windows Explorer Remove from Search DB Remove the selected track from the Search Database Note lt is strongly advised to perform File Operations for your tracks within the VirtualDJ Browser this will ensure that Vir
120. s E History Cancel Choose Private List from the same Cloud Lists menu if you don t wish this List to be a A ublic a Rename or Delete a List eh avon Ce Muss p i virtualdjradio kau from the same offered menu Drag and iTunes as ela drop any Content Unlimited files over EJHistory Rename this list that Cloud List to add nos Right click on the Cloud Lists folder to add new users that you may know from the forums that have created useful lists ContentUnlimited Input Text A T er virtualdjradio Recurse ds ClubZone Chan Hiphop R Hypnotica Channel 3 Progressive Trance Techno amp ES PowerBase Channel 4 Dubstep Drum 4 Bass Dutch Electro iTunes VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EN You will then see all the Cloud Lists of that user if available Cloud Lists djdad My Favorite Chill Music virtualdjradio ClubZone Channel 1 Club Essentials EDM TheGrind Channel 2 Hiphop R amp B Mainstream Hypnotica Channel 3 Progressive Trance Techno PowerBase Channel 4 Dubstep Drum amp Bass Dutch Electro djcyder Play this Top Karaoke Picks Top 40 US iTunes Live Feedback Just a few seconds after a track starts playing on a live playing deck Live Feedback will recommend a track and it s information will be displayed on the bottom of the Songs List The recommendation is based on what other DJs have played most of the times right after the playing track Live Feedback Folder
121. same amount motorWheellnstantPlay On controllers with motorized jogwheel when you press play the song will play instantly at its normal speed even if the motor takes some time to reach its nominal speed motorWheelSmoothPercent Helps smoothing the motorized jogwheel speed against fluctuations due to the OS delays in receiving the MIDI or HID messages motorWheelLockTime Set the number of seconds that VirtualDJ stops to interpret the motorized jogwheel movements after a play or stop action is done to prevent the wobbling movement of the motor when it abruptly stops controllersSkin For controllers that have a recommended skin defines if it should use it automatically or never or ask Sampler samplerBank Name of the sample bank that is currently loaded samplerTriggerMode Defines how the sampler slots are triggered On off means the sample starts when you press once and stop when it reaches the end of the Sample or when you press again Hold means the sample starts when you press and stops when you release the pad Stutter means the sample starts when you press and continue until the end of the sample If you press the pad again it restarts the sample from the beginning Unmute means the sample keeps running in the background but is audible only while the pad is pressed samplerDefaultLoopMode Set the default sync mode that is used when a new loop is recorded samplerForceNbColumns Force a layout for the sample pad in the Side
122. st detected beat red vertical line to a part beat of the track that will probably help you to be more precise The BPM value will not change in this case Or use the buttons to shift the CBG of the song by 1 beat backwards or forward The BPM value and the CBG are incorrect and the BPM value is unknown Zoom In to a part of the track that has clear beat information Drag and move the Beatgrid anchor red vertical line to the beginning of the first beat Place your mouse on the background of the waveform between the 1st and the 2nd beat until the double sided arrow appears Click and move this point to the beginning of the 2nd beat The BPM will be re calculated based on your adjustments Before After To make sure that you have correctly set the width of the Beatgrid on which the BPM value is based on zoom out and zoom in to various parts of your tracks and make minor adjustments using the same method as described above You can also use the buttons to increase decrease the Beat Grid in small steps a Tip Use the button to enable a Metronome Play a part of the track and prelisten to see if the beat of your track follows the Metronome and verify that your adjustments are correct and precise The volume of the Metronome can be adjusted from the Advanced Options Variable BPM values Several tracks may have parts with different tempo BPM VirtualDJ is calculating the BPM value by default based on the
123. ternal Soundcard Two Soundcards and Stereo to Mono He NTERNAL Splitter options Choose INTERNAL SOUNDCARD E ae EPLITTER option if you need VirtualDJ to use the default soundcard of your computer Choose TWO SOUNDCARDS option if you need to route Master and Headphones to different sound cards e g the built in soundcard of your computer only offers a single stereo output and need to use a USB one for pre listening Choose STEREO TO MONO SPLITTER option in case you need to use the single stereo output of your sound card for both Master and Headphones Output requires a Y Splitter Stereo to 2 x Mono adaptor cable The INPUT tab of Audio settings offers Microphone Timecode and Line Input options Choose MICROPHONE option if you wish to assign AUS an Input channel of a sound card as a microphone input TIMECODE SIGHAL Choose TIMECODE SIGNAL option if you wish to control VirtualDJ operations with timecoded vinyl s or CDs see Timecode LINE INPUT Choose LINE INPUT if you wish to assign an Input channel of a sound card as an Line Input AUX Additional buttons options may be provided in the CARD tab of Audio Settings if a natively supported MIDI HID device with built in audio interface is connected Click on that button and VirtualDJ will auto create a pre defined Audio Setup for that unit In the picture above a Pioneer DDJ WeGO is connected and the button will create an Audio Setup with Master to Chan 1 amp 2 a
124. the recorded file with the Tag Editor to add and edit additional fields see Tag Editor Show in explorer Shows the recorded file in your Computer s File Explorer Show in Browser Shows the recorded file in VirtualDJ Browser by setting focus to the folder of the file Additional recording settings are available in the Options tab Advanced Options under the group Record For more information see Settings descriptions Note By default VirtualDJ records the Master output If an External Audio Setup is defined or a different recording source needs to be used a RecordLoopback line is required in the Audio Setup see Audio Setup Guide Remote In this tab VirtualDJ will display all supported devices iPhone iPad and iPod touch that running the iRemote application at that time Choose any of them to enable or block Once the device is connected the Remote device can now control the software based on the provided features of the loaded skin VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 88 VirtualDJ Config version 8 0 0 Copyright Atomix Productions 1999 2014 REMOTE DEVICES BA O ENABLE DEVICES m Device Status N Babis iPhone Connected CONTROLLERS 7 This device has been successfully connected is Upload new skin VirtualDJ Remote is an application for iPad iPhone iPod touch that let you use your Devices as an additional interface The Remote connects to VirtualDJ wirelessly The connection is completely secure and only iRe
125. them again Obviously buying all of them is not a practical option That s why VirtualDJ offers the Content Unlimited subscription service You can play any song you want from the millions available without limits as long as your subscription is active You can even download all the songs you want on your computer and play them in VirtualDJ without an Internet connection VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 55 With a Content Unlimited subscription you will be able to face almost any request from your customers even for songs you never heard about And you ll always have access to the latest tracks as soon as they get released no matter where you are Read more about the offered Content Unlimited plans at http www virtualdj com products subscription html How to To use the tracks of the Content Unlimited service you simply need to type part of the Artist and or part of the title of the song into the Search field of Browser Depending on the Search Options and the focused folder VirtualDJ will tracks from your own Music library followed by the Content Unlimited tracks that match your input Search from a specific catalogue Select click any of the Search Audio Search MERA Video Search Karaoke or Search Netsearch O subfolders of the Content Unlimited folder and Search Karaoke then type in the Search field of Browser to get a specific type results Download queue Notice the different overlay icons that the files T have de
126. tically get info from the file s tags when a new file is encountered setTagsAuto Automatically write info to the file s tags when something is modified VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 106 coverDownload Automatically download cover pictures when a new file without cover is encountered getRemixWhenParsingFilenames Get the remix field when filename are formatted like artist title remix or artist title remix searchinFolder Search results display results from the current folder first searchinDB Search results display all results from the database searchinContentUnlimited Search results display results from ContentUnlimited if an Internet connection is available ContentUnlimitedWhenEmpty Only search Content Unlimited if no local result was found ContentUnlimitedVerifiedOnly Only show verified files from Content Unlimited oProResult catalogs didn t provide any results ContentUnlimitedForceNetSearchA Force Content Unlimited to search the NetSearch Audio catalog udio ContentUnlimitedForceNetSearchV Force Content Unlimited to search the NetSearch Video catalog ideo VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 107 multiTouchTwoFingerScroll Enable scrolling with two fingers on touch screens browserSearchByFirstLetter When the focus is on the browser typing on the keyboard will select the song starting with this letter instead of using the keyboard mapper lastSelectedFolder Last selected folder saved for the next session Select ho
127. time you select to play the same Playlist using Automix VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide ME D SETTINGS Click on the SETTINGS button on the top to access the Settings of VirtualDJ to manage all the features and options of the software Audio Setup Audio Setup provides sound output and input setup configuration options E 9 INTERNAL a SPEAKER ONLY En TWO SOUNDCARDS MICROPHONE SPEAKER STEREO TO MONO Q HEADPHONE Pe SPLITTER O Os PIONEER DDJ WEGO TIMECODE SIGNAL m a 4 5 m OUTPUT CARD oO o z TROL FE m a wo Hi EXTERNAL MIXER LINE INPUT o A source soundCard Channel master v Pioneer DDJ WeGOASIO ASIO ase v DDJ WeGO MASTERLE R TX a LICENSES headphones v Pioneer DDJ_VWeGO ASIO ASIO ASA v DDJ WeGO PHONESLER yx v h BROADCAST RECORD REMOTE KZ pt auto detected v i OUTPUT The OUTPUT tab of Audio Settings offers Speakers Only Speaker Headphone and External Mixer options SFESKER ONLY Choose SPEAKER ONLY option to create an Audio SPEAKER Setup with Master Output only HESOPHOHME Choose SPEAKER HEADPHONE option to create an Audio Setup with Master Output and EXTERNAL MIXER Headphones prelisten output as well Choose EXTERNAL MIXER option to create an Audio Setup with individual audio outputs for each of the available decks used for External analogue mixer setup VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 78 The CARD tab of Audio Settings offers In
128. tion if you wish to move any of the marked areas over another Video Editor Video Editor will allow you to overlay video files and texts over an existing Audio or Video track Video Editor is available as a Right click option to any track of your Browser Video Editor VIDEO EDITOR AAA OVERLAY i OVERLAY VIDEO itd TEXT video overlays text overlays Source File Stretch Repeat VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 69 How to Once the Video Editor is opened the selected track will be positioned on the top and the Cover Art if available of the audio track or the video of the track will be displayed on the Video preview by default Click on the _ button to choose the Video file you wish to overlay to the track Once the Video file is selected it will be displayed in frames on the bottom part of the Editor OVERLAY Click on the MIDES button and optionally choose to Stretch or Repeat the overlaid video if it has smaller length than the original track Alternatively you can overlay additional videos over the original track and even select the areas you wish the video to overlay T ES Video Editor VIDEO EDITOR EEE E E E E E T T O T T T T T T T 5d S a Dancer Animation film 1 5 64 7 O gt rs 2 O A RR 2 e O gt o O O O rs 2 O A
129. tions Tips The Sidelist can also be displayed at the bottom of the Songs List as well in the same position as older versions of VirtualDJ using the setting ShowHorizontalSidelist from the Options Change the setting RemovePlayedFromSidelist from the Options if you want the played tracks to be removed automatically from the Sidelist VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EJ Sampler The Sampler view of Sideview offers 2 different views the Trigger Pad and the List View Use the button at the top right side to toggle between these views The Trigger Pad view offers large buttons pads to trigger a Sample with an icon the name and a progress bar The List view also offers all possible information i e Volume Group name Mode Color etc You may also choose which fields you wish to see in the List View by right clicking on a header Click on a Sampler Pad or use the Play field in List view to trigger play stop a Sample sss SAMPLER 4 INSTRUMENTS gt i sss SAMPLER 4 INSTRUMENTS P gt mi Pk Pos Group Title Album A Color Volume Mode Length Edit 4 ES iil BEATS Kick S mmm Loop 8 beals LE 1 Kick 3 Synth 1 z A BEATS Kick Hard lt i mmm Loop 8 beats e A BEATS Kick Snare ta mmm Loop 8 beats e es IIl BEATS Kick Clap El _ m loop lt 8 gt 5 Kick Hard 7 Synth 2 a Q HATS HiHat 1 mm oop 8beals 7 Ili 9 Kick Snare 11 Synth 3 HATS HiHat 2 m HATS HiHat 3 O mua Loop 8 beals LP we HATS HiHat 4 O
130. tomix area is empty or choose Clean from the Playlist Options Right click to a Playlist and choose Load to Automix from the offered menu The content of the Playlist will be then offered into the Automix area Drag n drop new tracks or right click and choose to Remove the ones that you wish to exclude Choose Save from the Playlist Options menu Keep the same name if you wish the newly edited Playlist to overwrite the existing one or choose a different name if you wish a new one to be created based on your changes How to delete a Playlist Right click to a Playlist from the Folders List and choose to Delete from the offered menu From the same right click menu you may also Move Copy Rename Load to Sidelist along with other Batch operations such as Analyze Add to Search DB etc Notes Playlists do not get updated if tracks are moved renamed or deleted invalid file path even using File Operations of VirtualDJ However VirtualDJ will try to match and find your missing Playlist tracks in other Drives assuming that those have not been renamed Tracks will be automatically scanned analyzed once loaded into the Automix list VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 50 Tips Playlists keep the order for the tracks that had when saved They can be sorted by any Database field and can have their original order if you right click on any of the headers and choose Reset Order iTunes Playlists VirtualDJ will read the iTunes Library o
131. top scrollbar to navigate through the track Drag and move the POI to a new position using the green vertical line Play marker Optionally enable Snap to automatically position the selected POI to the nearest beat Use the Name field to rename your POI Use the Type drop down list to select a different type for your POI Available POI types HotCue Default type The POI will only operate as a HotCue Saved Loop N Sets this track position as a Saved Loop A Point option field will be provided on the right side to enter the number of beats that the loop will have Alternatively drag n move the green VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EGE marked area you will see on the waveform to manually adjust the size of the Saved loop The Saved Loop will be enabled using the HotCue buttons of the VirtualDJ GUI Action Assign a VirtualDJ script action which will be executed once the track reaches this point A Macro action field will be provided on the right side to type the action and a _ button is offered to open the Macro Editor which will help you to choose the desired action Example assign the action goto 16 to skip 16 beats when the track reaches this POI Remix Point N Sets this track position as a Remix point The Remix Points will be available in the Sampler view of Sideview Beatgrid anchor By default the Beatgrid anchor is the First Beat of the song and it is used from VirtualDJ on analyze to create the 4 beat p
132. ts can be removed from the Effect Selection List by right clicking Note Only user s custom effects can be moved or deleted The Default Effects see table below can not be moved to a Group nor can they be deleted Additional Effects can be downloaded from our website http www virtuald com addons effects html The Default Effects of VirtualDJ Windows version Distortion Echo Flanger Beatgrid Loop Roll Phaser Reverb Slicer Wah Wah Brake Backspin FlippinDouble Overloop Mac version Distortion Echo Flanger Beatgrid Loop Roll Phaser Reverb Slicer Wah Wah Brake Backspin FlippinDouble Overloop Loops 2 DECKS 6 DECKS The Minimal view is auto selected if one of the other 0 LOOP 2 sections Hot Cues and Effects are set to Extended View In this view Loop IN and a Loop OUT buttons will be offered to set the entry and exit points of the Loop IN Minimal Loop View The Normal view is auto selected if none of the y LOOP avallable sections are set to extended mode In this view Loop IN and Loop OUT buttons will be offered to set the dE and exit points of the Loop Use the buttons to half or double the size of the loop The size of the loop is visible along with a loop progress Bar Normal Loop View VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 19 The Extended View is selected by clicking on the Header of the section In this view Loop IN and Loop OUT buttons are available to set the entry and exit p
133. tualDJ s database gets updated as well VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Ea Files Icons Each track displayed in the Song List will get an icon displayed on the far left side of each track which offers valuable information about the type and status of the track There are 4 basic icons showing the file type of the track and several overlaid status indicators as per the following table Basic Icons J Audio Audio tracks mp3 wav cda wma asf ogg ogm m4a aac aif aiff flac mpc ape Video 8 Video tracks avi mpg mpeg wmv vob mov divx mp4 m 4v vix mkv flv webm o Karaoke zip Karaoke files mp3 cgd VirtualDJ Sample llm Samples created with VirtualDJ vdj vdisample Overlays Already played The track will receive the played overlay icon if played for more than 45secs This value can be adjusted from Options SY New Track recently added in Search Database Edit A Track created using Track Cleaner or Video Editor vdjedit files Missing x VirtualDJ can t find the track in the given filepath Track doesn t exist The track is either deleted or moved without using the VirtualDJ file operations or is a track included in a Playlist but the External Hard Drive is not connected Content Unlimited Tracks provided by the Content Unlimited These files can be loaded to a VirtualDJ deck or can be cached See Content Unlimited Netsearch Tracks provided by Netsearch These files can be loaded t
134. tup c Your computer has a built in soundcard with at least 2 stereo outputs 4 1 or higher J n lt Speakers amp Headphones with 4 1 or higher Connections Connections 4 1 oF e VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide Audio Setup Select the SPEAKER HEADPHONE and INTERNAL SOUND CARD options VirtualDJ will then route the Master Output to the 1st stereo channel and Headphones to the 2nd stereo channel of your computer s built in sound card Click APPLY CARD HEADPHONE a SPLITTER a Source SoundCard Channel master w Realtek High Definition Audio WVWASAPH v Chan1 2 TX a LICENSES headphones vy Realtek High Definition Audio WvASAPI w Chan 3 amp 4 rx Yv Speakers amp Headphones with 4 1 or higher Audio setup Audio Setup with Speakers Master Headphones prelisten and multi channel USB sound card Connections Speakers amp Headphones with a Multi Channel USB sound card Connections Audio Setup Select the SPEAKER HEADPHONE and INTERNAL SOUND CARD options Once the Audio Setup is created select your USB sound card from the SoundCard field VirtualDJ will then route the Master Output to the 1st stereo channel and Headphones to the 2nd stereo channel of your USB sound card Click APPLY VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide AUDIO SETTINGS AUDIO E ARD is ae niy 0 SPEAKER ONLY a INTERNAL FEF TWO SOUNDCARDS MICROPHONE INTERFACE tr SOUNDCARD i SPEAKER STEREO TO MONO OUTPUT
135. uch as Add to Search DB analyze for BPM etc Drag n drop a History Playlist to a new position to re organize the order if needed Virtual Folders Virtual Folders are an alternative option to m8u Playlists The great advantage of using Virtual Folders instead of m3u Playlists is that those are part of the VirtualDJ Database and get updated if you rename move or delete any of your tracks A virtual folder actually holds a collection of shortcuts to tracks and not the actual tracks How to Click on the O button from the left sided Toolbar of the Browser A pop up window will be offered to type a name for the new Virtual Folder Click OK and the Virtual Folder will be then displayed at the bottom of your Folders List Create Virtual Folder Compatible Songs Most Played Enter name for new folder Recently Added My First Virtual Folder i Load in SideList Rename virtual folder he Delete virtual folder Batch Virtual Folder pop up window Virtual Folder after creation Once a Virtual Folder is created simply drag n drop LiveF eed Aad to my First Vitual Folder any tracks from the Songs List over the Virtual folder Crates to add Compatible Sonas Most Plays Recently E Batch select tracks using mouse click SHIFT or My First V Ege CTRL to add tracks faster VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 52 Use the right click offered menu to Load the content of a Virtual Folder to Automix or SideList and other Batch op
136. ult with all 4 decks or just Left and Right Default with the Right deck inverted Scratchwave with all 4 decks just Left and Right or just the selected deck Extended Grid lines can be added to the first 3 views by selecting the Show extra gridlines option Default Wave Lett Right Selected Default Wawe Lett inverted Right normal scratch Wave 4 decks acratch Wawe Left Right deck scratch Wave Selected deck Default Wave All 4 Decks Default Wave Left right aus wave Left and Right decks inverted Scratchwave Selected deck 6 DECKS 3 different views are offered in the 6 Decks layout to choose from Default with all 6 decks Focused with Left and right Decks and E a Scratchwave with Left and Right Decks W E Extended Grid lines can be added to the first 2 e by selecting the Show extra gridlines option Waveform Selection menu 6 Decks Horizontal scratch wave 2 active decks Default waveform 6 Decks VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide HE Focused waveform left right 6 Decks LLL LLL LLL AAA no bee 2 Horizontal scratchwave left right 6 Decks Note Different Scratchwaves can be selected from Options ColoredWaveforms setting where the detected frequencies of the track are differently colored Zoom slider amp preset buttons Use the slider to zoom in out and adjust the visible area of the wave in the waveform Click on the D button to get
137. und indicates the 4 beat pattern of the Beat Grid of the sample The left red vertical line indicates the Beatgrid anchor first detected beat and the green line indicates the playing position Use the r buttons to play pause stop the sample Move the green playing marker using mouse to a different position if needed Note The Output of the Sampler Editor is by default the Headphones channel If no Headphones channel available in Audio Setup a pop up window will be displayed to confirm output on the Master Sampler Options Name Rename the sample by typing in the Name field Mode Choose if the Sample will be in Drop the sample will play once when triggered or Loop Mode the sample will play in Loop until stopped Drop Mode Flat the sample will play without any pitch tempo changes Pitched the sample will play at the same tempo as the Master Output Loop Mode Flat the sample will keep play without any pitch tempo changes Pitched the sample will play at the same tempo as the Master Output Sync Start the sample will play at the same tempo as the Master Output and will be synced with the CBG phase of it Sync Lock the sample will play at the same tempo as the Master Output and will be synced with the CBG phase of it The sample will start at the same CBG number E g if the track on the Master Output is at beat Nr 3 of its 4 beat phase the sample will start from its 3rd beat as well Group amp Colo
138. ute the Sampler Output only to the Headphones channel or any specific deck lf an External Mixer Audio Setup is selected you could either select a specific deck as Sampler Output or choose the trigger deck option If trigger deck is selected then it will route the Sample only to the deck where the sample was triggered from either using deck specific shortcuts or from a GUI or even a MIDI controller audio o he trigger mode headphones only EZ master 5 deck 1 deck 2 trigger mode audio Ep trigger deck all decks deck 1 deck 2 Sampler Audio Output External Mixer Note The Headphones only option will not be available if no Headphones are available in the Audio setup Pads Layout You can define the layout of the Trigger Pad view by selecting the number of the used columns VirtualDJ will then automatically fill the necessary rows to show all the Samples of the Bank By default the view is Automatic VirtualDJ will choose the best pads layout X Automatic audio output 1 columns view f a MIDI controller with pre defined columns rows and sides is connected and Automatic is chosen as the layout VirtualDJ will then reorder the pads to match the layout of the controller trigger mode t columns 3 columns Remix 4 columns 5 columns Wear 6 columns Album T columns Genre 8 columns Note Not all natively supported MIDI controllers with Pa
139. w to display the cover pictures on the coverflow band lastTrackListDate Last date from the tracklisting txt file startOfDayHour Hour in 24h format at which to cut into a new date in tracklisting txt AAT 8 AM historyDelay Number of seconds a song needs to be playing before it s considered played and added to the history tracklisting etc default 45 seconds prelistenVisible Show the prelisten control in the info panel prelistenStopOnChange Stop the prelisten if it was playing when you switch to a new file in the browser cloudLists List of CloudLists users that you want to display in your Cloudlist folder autoSearchDB Automatically add any song that VirtualDJ encounters while browsing your folders and drives to the search database showZipKaraoke When browsing the content of a folder check for all zip files to see if it s a karaoke file mp3 cdg inside showM3UAsFolders When opening a folder check if it has m3u playlist files inside and if so show them as subfolders Font size modifier for the browser browserBPMDigits How many digits after the dot should be displayed in the browser when showing a BPM savePlaylist Automatically save the automix sidelist karaoke list between sessions saveUnplayedT oSidelist When you load a song on a deck but change your mind and don t play it and load something else automatically put the song in the sidelist for later removePlayedFromSidelist When you play a song long enou
140. will keep playing if cue is pressed more than 2s or cue cup play on release stop and rewind on push smartPlay Automatically start playing from the nearest position that would get the song beat matched smartLoop Automatically adjust the loop points when setting a loop so that the loop is seamless smartCue Automatically adjust the jump position to keep the song beat matched smartCueQuantize Select 1 to make the smartCue jump to beat boundaries 4 to jump to measures boundaries or 0 25 to jump on quarter s boundaries smartScratch Automatically mute the volume when scratching backward Make the pitch slider changes the speed of the song but not its key autoPitchRange Automatically adjust the range of the pitch when pitch matching requires a broader range faderStart Automatically starts to play when the volume fader is moved up faderStartStop Automatically stops to play when the volume fader is moved down to zero autoHeadphones Automatically switch the headphones to the song that has just been loaded or touched be automatically reset when nothing is touched for more than 10s rhythmZoom Zoom level of the rhythm display Zoom level of the scratch display loopBackMode Select when a loop is set by number of beats loop 4 if the loop starts from the current position no or ends at the current position yes Smart means set start when paused or set end when playing VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide EUI called during a loop h
141. y adjust them To open the BPM Editor right click on any of your tracks or click on the BPM display on the decks of the GUI BPM Editor BPM EDITOR Felix Da Housecat fi will i am Burn The Disco Bro Safari Remix gt CU 2 x2 wia 130 gt Variable BPM The track will be analyzed and the multi colored waveform will be displayed providing information of its structure based on the detected frequencies The grey scaled background indicates the 4 beat pattern of the Beat Grid of the track The red vertical line indicates the Beatgrid anchor first detected beat Use a mouse wheel to zoom In Out and the top scrollbar to navigate through and inside the track be Use the gt buttons to play pause stop the track and the Play marker green vertical line to reposition it How to There are various ways to adjust and correct the BPM value and the beat phase of the track Below are the steps you need to make depending on possible cases The BPM value is already known as a value In this case simply type the BPM value in the BPM field The CBG of the song will be updated automatically The BPM value is double or half the real If VirtualDJ has detected the phase of the song correctly but the BPM value is either half or double of the real one Use the Ep buttons to half or double the BPM value VirtualDJ 8 User s Guide 63 The BPM value is correct but the CBG is not Drag and move the Beatgrid anchor Fir
142. y select the deck that is not currently on air Set the volume used by the metronome ticks in the BPM Editor equalizerMode Defines the spread of the equalizer bands Default has each band narrow around their frequency while Full Kill old v7 behavior has each band extending to share its border with the next band meaning if you kill all 3 bands in Full Kill mode you ll get silence while if you kill all 3 bands in Default mode you ll get everything except the bass medium and high bands splitHeadphones If set to true the headphones will have the master in the left ear and the PFL in the right ear Video startVideoOnLoad Automatically open the video output window when you load a video track letterBoxing Select how to handle the difference in aspect ratio between your video files and your video output window videoFPS Set the number of Frame Per Seconds used by the video engine videoMicroFrames Enhance the quality of the video at lower speed by adding MicroFrames between the regular frames When set to smart MicroFrames are used only when scratching or playing at low speed videoCrossfaderLink If set to true moving the audio crossfader automatically moves the video crossfader too videoCrossfaderAuto If set to true the video crossfader will automatically moves to follow the deck that the audience is hearing videoVolumeLink If set to true moving the volume sliders automatically moves the video levels too vid

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