I talked with a DJ last night. He suggested that I build up a song on deck A with a loop+delay+filter, and on deck B have a different song with a heavy bass beat loaded. At the end of a few bars of buildup, make the sudden transition between the two decks.

Anyone use this technique much?

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Originally posted by Apeattack I talked with a DJ last night. He suggested that I build up a song on deck A with a loop+delay+filter, and on deck B have a different song with a heavy bass beat loaded. At the end of a few bars of buildup, make the sudden transition between the two decks. Anyone use this technique much?

I've done it. It's good if you wanna make a quick cut to another track.

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Originally posted by Apeattack I talked with a DJ last night. He suggested that I build up a song on deck A with a loop+delay+filter, and on deck B have a different song with a heavy bass beat loaded. At the end of a few bars of buildup, make the sudden transition between the two decks. Anyone use this technique much?

I suppose I also could put the same track in Deck B and start it at a point where the bass is heavy.

Guess I have to goof around with the mixer a bit and see what happens.

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i think what you're talking about is the pioneer djm mixer's "roll" function that a lot of djs use nowadays. and i know gareth emery uses it a lot. it may seem like he's doing nothing, because all you have to do is press a button a few times. basically, you select the "roll" function with the effects knob, tweak the parameter knob, and then reduce the sampling rate by hitting the minus button a lot. and then when the tension is at a peak, right before the drop, you just hit "off" and the effect drops.

is this making any sense? again, i don't know how you would do this on numark, but i've seen something similar done on virtual dj, where you mark a particular cue point ahead of time, and when the time is right, just loop it and then shorten the length of the loop.

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Originally posted by Imu i think what you're talking about is the pioneer djm mixer's "roll" function that a lot of djs use nowadays. and i know gareth emery uses it a lot. it may seem like he's doing nothing, because all you have to do is press a button a few times. basically, you select the "roll" function with the effects knob, tweak the parameter knob, and then reduce the sampling rate by hitting the minus button a lot. and then when the tension is at a peak, right before the drop, you just hit "off" and the effect drops. is this making any sense? again, i don't know how you would do this on numark, but i've seen something similar done on virtual dj, where you mark a particular cue point ahead of time, and when the time is right, just loop it and then shorten the length of the loop.

I looked at a few online tutorials for the roll feature on a DJM400. Man, my Omni Control looks so sad now... so, so sad. :P

Traktor Scratch Pro allows setting up hotkeys for cutting the beat in half, which seems to be the same as the +/- button on the DJM400. There are limited number of knobs and buttons on the Omni Control, so I use the keyboard (the "<" and ">" buttons) for cutting the beat in half.

It is possible to hotcue loops too, which may come in handy... haven't done much of this yet though.

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