using nothing but your computer's
keyboard and track pad.
In this video, I'm going
to give you an overview
of Serato Play, and then
I'm going to show you
the hotkeys that you
can use in order to mix.
And then we're going to do a
little mix towards the end.
Let's do it.
What it does is it
splits the stereo outputs
of your laptop into two.
One goes to your headphones,
and the other goes to your speakers.
That means you can use your headphones
to cue up the next song,
and to prepare without
altering or affecting
the sound that's coming
out of your main speakers.
And to do that, just go to my Serato,
and you're going to have to
log into your Serato account.
I've already logged in.
And I've already enabled
and purchased Serato Play,
so if I click on my products,
it's just going to show
up in here as activated.
Now since you haven't done that yet,
just click on expansion packs,
and it's going to show
up somewhere in here.
Again, it's a $39 purchase,
so once you complete the purchase,
it'll be activated and
you can close my Serato,
and you're going to be brought
back to the main screen.
Now in order to show the
Serato Play controls,
head on over to the top
of the Serato interface
and click on this icon over here.
It looks like a crossfader.
Click on it.
You're going to find the
Serato Play interface
show up in the middle of your screen.
Now here's a really quick
talk through of the controls.
Over here on the left side,
you're going to find the cue level knob.
This will allow you to set
the volume in your headphones,
and this is the headphone cue button.
You have one for the left deck,
and one for the right deck.
Now if you take a look on the upper left
and upper right of the screen,
you're going to notice
that decks one and two
are activated, but we can also activate
decks three and four.
So yes, you can do four deck mixing
using Serato Play.
How cool is that?
It's handy if you are
a mobile or wedding DJ,
or you're somebody who actually spins,
and with four decks, you
can practise your set
even though you are not in front
of your DJ controller or
you're not at the club.
You can practise on route,
or wherever you are,
as long as you've got your laptop
and Serato Play activated.
Okay, so let's move on to the controls.
Over here we've got the three
band EQ low, mid, and high,
as well as a filter knob.
You're going to find this to be identical
over onto the right deck.
So yes, low, mid, high, as
well as filtering knobs.
And you're going to be
able to control this
using either your mouse,
just clicking and dragging
like that, or using keyboard shortcuts,
which I'm going to show you in a minute.
Now if you want, if you mess
around with these controls,
say you've already done this,
and you want to quickly go back
to the 12 o'clock position.
All you got to do is click
on the circle at the top,
that will bring it back
to its default position.
Just like that, super, super simple.
Okay, so I was talking
about keystrokes earlier.
You're going to find them over here.
If you click on the gear cog icon,
it's going to bring up this little menu.
And let's go through the settings first.
Over here it has a option for
using split headphone cable.
I showed you what that was earlier,
and I've already got my headphone splitter
connected to my laptop, so
I want that to be enabled.
Again, this will enable me to monitor
headphone cue, and also
to be able to plug in
my main speakers over
onto the other tracks.
I've got that enabled, if you're not using
a DJ splitter cable, then you're
going to want to untick this.
And then below that,
you've got the Serato Play
hotkeys enabled.
So if you click on view keys.
Now if I click on view keys,
I'm going to be shown all
of the keyboard shortcuts.
That are available in Serato Play.
Let's just go through them
really, really quickly.
Over here at the top,
you've got your hotkeys,
you can check up to five hotkeys
using Serato Play, and
you're going to find
below these key buttons that
there are looping controls.
And they are in a light blue colour.
That means you have to
hold down the alt button,
or the option button if you are on a Mac,
and while holding that down
you press any of these keys
that will access these blue key commands.
So if I want to do an
auto loop for example,
all I have to do is press alt,
and then press the
number one on my keyboard
and I'm going to be able to
enable or disable an auto loop.
So that's it for the top row,
you've also got toggle decks over here.
Again, I said earlier that you can control
up to four decks on Serato Play.
Really, really cool.
And then you've got zoom in and zoom out
for the wave forms.
Now below that, you've
got your tempo nudges,
and also your tempo
controls so you can speed up
or slow down a track,
you can change the BPM,
and you can also enable or
disable sync in this row.
And then you've got
crossfader controls over here.
If you click on this button,
it brings the crossfader all the way
to the left instantaneously.
To press this, it brings crossfader
straight to the middle,
and if you click on
this button over here on your keyboard,
it brings the crossfader
all the way to the right.
If you don't want to do smooth fades,
you can use these
buttons in order to bring
the crossfader into these
three different sections
of the crossfader path.
Now finally, over here on the far left
you're going to find the
toggle library button,
and this lets you bring the selector
from the playlist tree or the crates tree
over on the left side of the browser.
You can toggle from selecting that
or selecting tracks within a crate,
which is basically the centre
part of your browser's screen.
Now, below that, you've got two rows
to control the EQs and the filters,
as well as the volume fader.
So in this row, these are all controls
that move these clockwise.
And over here in the bottom row,
these are all controls
that move these knobs
anti-clockwise, or bring
the volume faders down.
You've also got control
reset buttons over here,
which you can access by
holding down the alt key,
or the option key on your Mac,
and clicking any of these buttons
on your keyboard.
Rather, I should say pressing
any of these buttons.
Over here on the right side,
you've got the play right deck command.
So if you want to hit play,
if you want to start or stop the track,
that is on the right deck.
You have to press the
enter or the return key,
if you're on the Mac.
Now over here at the bottom,
let's just go through these
alt keys really quickly.
If you hold down the alt button
and press these three
keys or these three keys,
that will allow you to do an EQ kill,
so this will effectively
remove any of these
EQ frequencies in a song instantly.
Over here at the very, very bottom,
you've got the play left deck,
so again, the enter button
plays the right deck,
and the space bar plays the left deck.
That's pretty self explanatory.
Over here on the right
side we've got controls
for the crossfader,
these incrementally move
the crossfader either to the left
if you press the left button over here,
the left key, and this
brings the crossfader
to the right, little by little.
You can also hold down the command button,
and press the left key to load a song
on the left deck, and the command button,
or the right key in order to load a song
on the right deck.
So that's it for the hotkeys,
let's see these in action.
Alright, so let's try playing
a couple of tracks in here.
I'm going to load some songs.
There we are using the hotkeys.
And I can trigger hotkeys over here
on the left deck just by pressing
one two three four five.
Press one, I've already
got a hotkey there.
And if I press six, it's a hotkey.
The hotkey over here on the right deck,
and again, we're not hearing anything
coming out of the main speakers
because our crossfader is
set all the way to the left.
Now if I press this button,
which is the close bracket button,
or the close bracket key,
this brings the crossfader
into the centre,
and now I can hear both.
Alright, so let's try
playing the left deck.
Going to hit the spacebar.
(hip-hop beat plays)
Right, cool.
Now I can mess around with
the filter if want to,
if I press F, it brings
the filter clockwise.
Brings it clockwise, and
removes it, and clockwise.
And if I hit option, or alt,
and press F, this brings
it to the default position.
Same thing happens if I
mess around with the EQ.
Which moves it clockwise.
Moves it anti-clockwise.
Hold down alt, command.
Press A.
Brings it back to the 12 o'clock position.
Now if I wanted to do a full kill,
hold alt, press Z, that
removes all the low end
almost instantly, and if I hold alt and A,
it brings it to the
default position again.
This works for all the
other EQ controls over here.
Alright cool.
So let's stop that.
Alright, so let's try mixing
these two songs together.
It's pretty easy to do in Serato Play,
especially since you've got hotkeys
already laid out for you.
So let's try playing this track over here.
And now I can notice that the tempo
for the left deck is different,
so let's sync that up.
There we go, they're now synced.
I'm going to prep myself.
Cool.
Playing both of them now.
Slow down the track.
Just like that, and then now
I can bring my crossfader from the right
over onto the left.
of Serato DJ Pro and Serato DJ Lite.
Tidal is a music streaming service,
similar to Spotify and Apple Music.
We've got a full review of that,
I've got a link to the video below this,
and also I've got a tips and tricks video
for you if you want to
transfer your playlist
from Spotify, from Apple Music,
or any other music streaming service.
I'm going to show you how
you can get those playlists
and how you can copy them over onto Tidal
so you can spin with those tracks
inside of Serato DJ.
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My name is Joey, thank
you so much for watching.
I'm going to see you next time.
