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To clear a Hotcue, hold down the SHIFT button and press the corresponding Hotcue but-
ton.
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You can see that the button is no longer lit.
Creative Uses of Hotcues
Hotcues aren’t just bookmarks to particular sections of a track—they can also be used for crea-
tive techniques such as remixing parts of a song, beat juggling effects, etc.
As an example, we will show you here how you can quickly make use of a Loop stored in a
Hotcue slot to introduce the track you’re about to mix in. By the way, this will allow us to sum
up what we’ve learned until now.
Provided that you carefully followed the instructions in the previous tutorials, the track “Tech-
no 2” is still loaded on Deck B. Let’s say that the track on Deck A is on air (crossfader at full
left) and you want to prepare the track on Deck B for mixing in:
1. Start the playback of the next track and send it to your headphones by activating the CUE
button on the corresponding channel.
2. Find an interesting Loop near the beginning of the track by using the controls in the Loop
section of the right Deck.
3. Once you have a nice Loop running, store it by pressing an unlit Hotcue button and leave
it playing.
4. Now start to bring this Loop in your mix, for example by implementing the lowcut we ex-
plained in the previous tutorial (see ↑4.2.7, Mixing In the Track by Using the Channel EQ
and Filter).
5. When you’re about to fade out the previous track completely, release the Loop on the new
track, and you’re done.
4.5
Using Samples in Your Mix
The Remix Decks are a great way to add Samples to your set, or capture Samples from Track
Decks for on-the-fly remixing.
Tutorials
Using Samples in Your Mix
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