Demonstration/ tutorial the "ROLL" feature DJM-700 mixer

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Alright folks, Jonathan here. This is a tutorial and also it's a bit of a demonstration, a very basic demonstration with regards to the DJM700 mixer and a feature on this guy here known as the roll. The roll is basically a sampler in a sense. Very quickly what I've got, I've got the level depth here set to maximum, I'll show you why in a second. We're on channel 3 because this CDJ is on channel 3, so in other words this guy here will determine what channel we actually want to use. With regards to the effects on this side here, we have the effects set to roll and what I'm going to do, I'm going to set this to 1 over 1. If I pan close to that area now, I shall explain why we've got it set to 1 over 1. What I'm going to do, you can't see me, I'm going to start the music and I'm going to press the light down there and when that flashes like so, it will mean that the sampler

1:25 We move back in the opposite direction to the right of the beat

The DJ Tutor offers a variety of features, including the roll effect, the roll feature is being utilised. So what we'll do, we'll pan close to there now and I'll talk you through exactly what's going on. So we'll start the music, I'm not going to press the button on the mixer yet, so we'll start the music off on the CDJ. Right, what I'm going to do now, I'm now going to press that button, bottom right hand corner, and there. This button here, which is to the left of where it says beat, we will have half of that sample. If I press it again, we'll have a quarter. If I press it again, we'll have an eighth. And once more, sixteen. Now we move back in the opposite direction to the right of the beat. Eight, quarter, half. One over one, one beat. Two over one, two beats. One, two, one, two, one, two. Four over one, we now have a bar.

2:28 This is what we can do here with the level depth

1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. And then if we do it again, we go over one more time, we now have two bars. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Now as you can see, if I pan out, the CDJ is still playing, but if I press Q, basically what's happening now, that's on number 8, so just to make sure, we can take that out. So if we put that back in now, and bearing in mind, we need to know that as soon as this music starts, it starts exactly on the beat. Now this is what we can do here with the level depth. If I pan closely to the level depth now, just to that area, watch what happens when I press cue, when the level depth is set to maximum. Nothing. But you have a listen now to the sample, to the track, and now you press.

And then I have my finger on the pause. If I take my finger off here, the music will stop. So if I don't want the music to stop, I can press there and it will carry on going. Right, there's a very brief sort of demonstration with regards a tiny bit of the feature of the roll. Now bearing in mind we can change the frequency of the roll as well by using the frequency dial and filter so there are a lot more effects to this. A small insight into the roll feature on the DJM-700 mixer. Practice and enjoy!

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