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Xone DB4 looping feature question(s)

Say you're playing a track and activate a 4 bar loop via the db4. When u deactivate the loop does the track continue playing where it would have been had you not activated the loop? Would looping a loop made in serato cure this problem? I like playing tracks with vocals so having the track progress while a db4 loop is triggered could cause problems for me. Can you throw the loop over to another channel like on the djm900? Last question, if you are using turntables instead of cdjs will the loops go off tempo due to analog drift? Or does the loop bpm change with the tempo of the track even after the loop is activated? I feel like id have to buy cdjs to use this mixer the way it was intended which puts it way out of being affordable. I use serato btw but i dont think that matters because this is a mixer reading/analyzing sound not a control signal (had trouble using cdjs features w serato when i owned cdjs.)

Hope this makes sense!

Thanx

Re: Xone DB4 looping feature question(s)

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Originally posted by discobiscuit Say you're playing a track and activate a 4 bar loop via the db4. When u deactivate the loop does the track continue playing where it would have been had you not activated the loop?

Yes, it's a loop roll and therefore the music keeps playing "under" the loop.

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Would looping a loop made in serato cure this problem? I like playing tracks with vocals so having the track progress while a db4 loop is triggered could cause problems for me.

Yes, you'll have to do a normal loop in Scratch Live then if you don't want it to act like a loop roll.

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Can you throw the loop over to another channel like on the djm900?

Yes, but not the same manner like the DJM's roll/sampler. The nice thing about the DB4 is it has matrix inputs, so you can play any input on any channel, or even the same input on all four channels. So basically what you do(and what I actually do on my DB4) is just put the same input on two channels, one channel is the live track playing, and the other channel I just keep the fader down and use it like a Soundbite Pro/Cycloops/PVDJ grabber and take little loops and throw them in when I want.

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Last question, if you are using turntables instead of cdjs will the loops go off tempo due to analog drift? Or does the loop bpm change with the tempo of the track even after the loop is activated?

There is drifting unfortunately and it doesn't continuously track the BPM of the song while in the loop. There's no pitch bending/adjusting of the loop on the mixer either, so you'll have to nudge your turntable/CDJ's platter every once in a while (more so with turntables, naturally) to keep the loop in sync (well technically your keeping the live playing track in sync with the loop, not the other way around).

Thank you so much u da man!

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