Rane Sixty-One Sixty-One Mixer Manual for Scratch Live 2.5.0 - Page 24

will be green. Press the x button to clear the loop. If you click on the locked loop symbol, a red border will appear. This indicates the loop is locked, and you will not be able to adjust the end points or delete the loop until you unlock it, by clicking on the number again. NOTE: Looping applies to REL and INT modes. Auto-Looping Auto-looping allows you to create loops instantly. If the track has a BPM value simply click the number of beats you wish to loop and Scratch Live will create the loop for you. The loop is snapped to the beats in the song detected by Scratch Live so even if you press the button slightly out of time Scratch Live will still create a perfect loop for you. Five auto-loop buttons are available on screen at any one time. They range from 1/32 to 32 beats. The user can select the auto-loop range with the  and  buttons. Pressing an auto-loop button will create a loop start point from the nearest beat to the playhead (within reason), and set a loop endpoint in the future. Pressing auto-loop 1 while auto-loop 1 is active will deactivate the loop. Pressing a different auto-loop button while looping is active will extend the endpoint of the current loop to the appropriate new auto-loop length. You can also save an auto-loop to the next available slot. When using an autoloop, a  save button is visible where the lock loop button normally is. NOTE: Auto-looping requires the track BPM to be set. See "Set Auto BPM" on page 16. The A-Slot A special loop slot 'A' exists for autolooping. The act of using the auto-loop buttons sets a loop in the 'A' slot, following the rules above. Turning a loop off using the auto-loop buttons returns you to the loop slot that you were previously in at the time you started auto-looping. Turning the loop off using the LOOP button leaves you in the 'A' slot. The 'A' slot is not saved to disk automatically, pressing 'save' saves the loop to the first empty slot in 1-9. Auto-looping shortcut keys are alt-1 to 5 for the Left Deck, and alt-6 to 0 for the Right Deck. They correspond to the looping buttons as laid out on screen. ie. if the onscreen buttons display 1 2 4 8 16 beat loops, alt-1 triggers a 1 beat loop, and alt-5 triggers a 16 beat loop. Loop Roll Loop roll performs a standard autoloop, but when the loop is turned off, the playback position is returned to the position where it would be if it had not entered the loop (much like censor). The other difference between loop roll and standard auto-loop is the ''roll'' button is momentary. The loop is engaged when the button is pressed down, and disengaged when the button is released. Use short loop lengths to create "stutter" type effects. To activate loop roll, hold control + alt while clicking on the desired autoloop increment, or use the keyboard shortcuts: control + alt + 1 through 5 for the Left Deck and control + alt + 6 through 0 for the Right Deck. (ie. the same as the autoloop controls with the additional 'alt' key as a modifier). The range of values available for loop roll are 1/32 through to 32 beats. The shortcut keys will activate whichever loop lengths are visible on screen, i.e., if you have lengths of a 1/4 beat through to 4 beats visible for the Left Deck, control + alt + 1 will activate a 1/4 beat loop roll, control + alt + 2 will activate a 1/8 beat loop roll and so on. Use the  and  buttons to toggle through the range of possible lengths visible onscreen. Loop Roll with MIDI You can assign loop roll to MIDI two ways: 1. After pressing the MIDI assign button in Scratch Live, press the control + alt keys, click on an auto-loop value, then click on the button/slider you want it mapped to on your MIDI controller. 2. You can assign the singular loop roll button to MIDI, then assign a MIDI knob or slider on your controller to the autoloop select knob (visible in the MIDI assign panel area when in MIDI assign mode) to change the values on the fly. TIP: When you have the "Autoloop Select" knob assigned to MIDI, you have all of the loop roll lengths at your disposal. This allows you to roll up and down the loop length scale, to create interesting stutter and build-up effects. NOTE: Like auto-loop, loop roll requires a BPM value written to the ID3 tag in order to work. Build overviews with the "Set Auto BPM" box checked and the proper range for your music selected to ensure an accurate BPM value. See "Set Auto BPM" on page 16 To use the Loop controls on the SixtyOne, see "FlexFx" on page 10. 24 RANE SIXTY-ONE MIXER FOR SERATO SCRATCH LIVE • OPERATOR'S MANUAL 2.5.0