Operation Manual

VirtualDJ DJC MP3 e2

8) OMIX, SAMPLER SCRATCH, AUT

a) Scratching

Scratching is the action of stopping a vinyl record playing on a turntable with

your hand, and playing a portion of the music backwards and forwards with your

hand. This makes a specific sound, called scratching: the vinyl record moves at

the speed of your hand instead of turning at the speed of the turntable (since the

slip mat placed below the record isolates the record from the rotations of the

turntable).

i) Scratch mode

You can enter into scratch mode by pressing the scratch button, located over

the Up button on your controller: the button lights up, and you can use the jog

wheels to scratch.

ii) Action

Once you are in scratch mode, if you turn the jog wheel counterclockwise, you

play the music track backward, and if you turn the jog wheel clockwise, you play

the music forward, at the speed of the jog wheel’s rotation.

iii) Jog wheels accuracy

Scratching requires the best accuracy for the jog wheel, so in the DJ Control

MP3 e2 control panel, you should select the standard jog wheel accuracy

instead of one of the reduced accuracy modes.

You can set the accuracy of the jog wheels in the DJ Control MP3 e2 control

panel: for some operations, some DJs may prefer to reduce the accuracy of the

wheels, and divide it by 2 or by 4; but for scratching, the higher the

ccuracy, the better the results.

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