User manual VESTAX VCI-300

[. . . ] All content © Serato Audio Research. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners 2 Vestax VCI-300 / Serato ITCH Manual 1. 0 IMPORTANT SAFTEY INSTRUCTIONS 1. Install in accordance with manufacturer's instructions. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heat. [. . . ] While paused you can use the platter to fine tune the playhead placement to ensure your cue point is set exactly on a downbeat. If no temp cue is set, pressing the CUE button while playback is paused will create one at the current playhead location. Once the temp cue is set, holding the CUE button whilst paused will play from the temp cue point. Releasing the button will pause playback and return to the temp cue. This is good for stuttering in the start of a track. If you press the PLAY/PAUSE button whilst you are holding down the CUE button, playback will continue when you let both buttons go. This allows you to cue a track in from pause mode and then continue playback once you know the mix is right. The CUE button can also be pressed whilst the track is playing at any point to return to this point and put the deck in pause. To change the location of the temp cue put the deck in pause with the playhead at a different location and press the CUE button again. The Tempo Matching display area provides a helpful tool for beat matching. ITCH detects the beats within the track and places a row of orange peaks (for the track on the left side) above a row of blue peaks (for the track on the right side) in the Tempo Matching display area. When the two tracks are matched to the same tempo, the peaks will line up. This display does not show the relative timing of the beats, only the tempos of the tracks. The peaks will still line up when the tracks are playing at the same tempo, but are out of sync. DROPPING IT IN The platter on the VCI-300 is touch sensitive and when ITCH starts is in NUDGE mode. In NUDGE mode, moving the platter backwards or forwards will temporarily bend the speed of the track faster or slower. This is for when you have two tracks mixed together but they are not quite in time. By "nudging" the platter back and forth you can ensure that the timing is aligned. When pressing the SCRATCH button, SCRATCH mode engages and the button lights to show this. In SCRATCH mode, touching and holding the platter will stop playback just like with a record. Moving the platter will scratch backwards and forwards through the track as if you were using vinyl. You can also NUDGE whilst in SCRATCH mode by turning the platter without touching the black top. You do this by using the clear plastic edges, this is a bit like using the rails on a turntable to get tracks in time. The temp cue point is also useful to repeatedly start from a preset point in the track. [. . . ] PLAYBACk kEYS USE SHIFT With this option on, all cue point, loop, and general playback keys on the computer keyboard require shift or caps lock to function. LOCk PLAYING DECk When this option is checked, you can only load a track to a deck if it is paused. USE AUTO GAIN Check this if you want to use an automatically calculated gain value for songs with overviews built. HI-FI RESAMPLER This significantly reduces digital distortion at very slow or very fast playback speeds, increasing the CPU load slightly. [. . . ]