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| quote: | Originally posted by DJRecess
I think I get what this fella's on about.
I've only had my CDJ's for a couple of months, so sorry if this is wrong (man I'd be embarrassed) but here goes:
For each track on the CD you play, you'll see a number on the display. So, if you have 10 tracks, you'll see the numbers 1-10. Find a cue point on a track (let's say it's track 7) and then press 'Memory'. Number 7 will now have a line underneath it - to show it's got a CUE saved. However, you don't have to leave it at that. Say there's another part of the track (20 secs in for example) that you want to set to get to - find that point, and set the cue for there - you'll see another red mark will be above the green line at the bottom of the display (the line then gets smaller from left to right as you play through the tune). This way, you can have multiple cue points for each track on the CD (there'll be loads of red marks above the green line to show this).
You can save loads of these cue points to the one track, and then use the 'Call' button to get from track to track and from cue point to cue point.
As to HOT-CUE's - you get three of them for the entire CD - not for each track. So, you can set the three hot cues - and update them throughout the CD as you use it - and those three hot cues will still be active the next time you stick in the CD (though it will take a second or two to read the Hot-Cue point the first time you press it).
So, in summary - you can set as many Cue points in a track that you like, and use the Call button to get to each one, but they're not instant like the Hot Cue - (well, the last one you activated is - but you can't instantly activate number 10 when you're on number 3 unless it's set as a hot cue).
And, you can set 3 Hot-Cues per disc (Green for a cue, yellow for a loop) update them as you wish, and the last three you set will be retained the next time you stick in the CD.
This '3 Hot Cues to a disc' malarky is a good reason not to load the CD up with 100 tunes. Even if you have 10 folders with 10 tracks each, if you set a Hot Cue in 'Folder 1' and are currently playing from Folder 2 - when you press that Hot Cue button, it'll just say something like "HOT CUE FOLDER 01" to let you know you have to be in that folder to activate it.
Good luck with it all, I hope this was accurate! I'll check on my CDJ's when I get home, just to be sure, but if anyone wants to correct this, please do!! |
Sorry to refocus this onto my OP for a second (lol) but I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for helping on this - especially Recess - I've not had a chance to go through what you said in practise, but i'm looking forward to using the CDJs with the knowledge that now I know what I'm doing!
Sory to seem dense here, but what book are you on about?
JsPOI
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