Rane Sixty-Eight Sixty-Eight Mixer Manual for Serato DJ - Page 8

OWNER'S MANUAL 4. Connect a Sixty-Eight USB Using the provided USB cable, connect either USB A or USB B to an available USB 2.0 port on your computer. The Sixty-Eight automatically switches its control point if only one of the USB ports is connected. Make sure you connect it directly to your computer and not through a hub or splitter. Turntable Setup 1. Set the tone arms to the specific recommendations of the cartridge used, so that the needle never leaves the record, but not heavy enough that it heats up significantly. Both produce poor tracking. 2. Grounding is extremely important when using Serato DJ. Make sure you have good connections from the ground wires of your turntables to a grounding post on the Sixty-Eight. If you do not ground your turntables properly, the control signal will be noisy and the tracking of the record position will be erratic. CD Player Setup Disable all built-in effects on the CD player, including keylock/master tempo. Wiring Rane recommends balanced wiring for the strongest signal and rejection of hum and noise. If your cable to the destination is less than 10 feet (3 meters), you can often get away with an unbalanced cable. See the RaneNote "Sound System Interconnection" at rane.com for cable wiring recommendations. Quick Start: Operation Primary & Secondary Deck Layers When using the Sixty-Eight with more than two Virtual Decks, layers are used to determine which Decks respond to keyboard shortcuts and the Control Strips on the Sixty-Eight. The Primary Deck layer is the main left and right Decks that you will use, while the Secondary Deck layer is the other secondary Decks. You decide which Decks are to be the Primary and Secondary Decks, this can be configured in Serato DJ. Click the SETUP button at the top of the screen, and settings are in the Audio tab. Refer to the Serato DJ Manual. To switch focus between the Primary and Secondary Deck layers, use the LAYER button on the SixtyEight. Calibrating Serato DJ for Control Vinyl or CD Since Serato DJ is controlled by an analog signal, there is no guarantee of what state that signal will be in by the time the software gets to interpret it. Therefore, Serato DJ needs to be able to handle a wide range of signals, and be configurable to use them optimally. Calibrating is just configuring the software to your situation. Calibration is equally important for both vinyl and CD users of Serato DJ. There are two parts to the Serato DJ Control Vinyl: The directional tone, and the NoiseMap™. Listening to the control vinyl, the directional tone is the 1 kHz tone. The noise map sounds like random noise over the top of the tone. The directional tone provides the current speed and direction of the record, while the noise map tells the software precisely where on the record the needle is currently. The Noise Sensitivity slider lets you adjust the noise threshold. A threshold is a lower limit, below which a process will not occur. In the case of Serato DJ, the noise threshold is the limit below which the input signal will not be interpreted as control signal; in other words if it's below the threshold, it is considered noise and ignored. This setting is necessary because a stylus is very sensitive, and will inevitably pick up noise from the environment as well as the signal on the record, especially in the noisy environment of a live show. SIXTY-EIGHT 8