Hot Cues and Loops Club August CD Pool 2020

0:00 Yeah, I didn't win, the road won

Alright, so a few days ago I was on my bike and I had an argument with the road. So yeah, I didn't win, the road won. Some advice, if you're on a road bike and you do hit some grit, don't put your brakes on straight away because I slid off and landed on the road. Adding a bit of a loop over another track and just general fun really. Okay, so I want to study quite a bit about hot cues, loops and so on because they could be very very beneficial. Now again with a loop if you've got an edit version of a track You can make an extended version of that track just by using loops. So again, with today's technology, there's so much you can do. I mean, you know, vinyl, crikey, you'd have to have two pieces of vinyl to do, I don't know, to even broach the subject of what you can do.

With the likes of a controller like this. Alright, this is the XZ, I mean you don't have to have the XZ, you could have the RR, you could have the 400, even the 200, the DDJ-200. You can do loops and all sorts. It's just crazy what you can do with today's technology. Okay, so we've got some tunes here from CDPool. These are the August releases, the club releases, and we're listening to... An ode to Ibiza. Alright, so what I've found now is on the other side, I tried this earlier on and I like the feel of it. Ben Daly, a track in Daily, sorry, a track entitled 1995, have a listen. A nice sort of feel to this tune but I'm going to go back a bit. Okay, so I've made a tiny loop. It's a nice kind of soulful loop. So what we've got here...

2:27 It's almost like a remix

We've got a nice bouncy sort of track that's, it's just a happy kind of feel. But I can add that loop in the background to give it a little bit more depth. Right, let's just go back. I'm going to put my headphones on. See, just in the background. Okay, so what are we doing here? It's almost like a remix.

It is going off slightly, again I'm not using the rekordbox software to analyze the track so these are basic mp3 files and as I've said in quite a few of my videos if you do want to get the true features of the Pioneer kit you've got it's always a good idea to put your files through rekordbox so then the kit you have does come to life. You can use mp3 so get this question asked so many times Can I just use MP3s? Yeah, you can. You know, with the likes of the XZ, the RX and the RR, you can just bung your MP3 files onto a thumb drive and away you go, which is what I'm doing here. And you can do loops, but then if you want to go in depth with all of the features, for example, quantize mode and so on, you will need to analyze your tracks.

5:09 In some sort of boxing match

Through rekordbox. And again, if you have bought a piece of Pioneer kit, you should know that you get rekordbox with it as box standard. Okay, so Ode to Ibiza. Let's just come out of that loop now and listen a little bit more to 1995. I'm loving the vibe in this tune. It does have that old school sort of 90s vibe. So let's find something else. Knuckles are a bit sore but looks like I've been in. In some sort of boxing match. Want a hot cue? Okay, now what I did there was I set a hot cue at the beginning of a new phrase and I carried on playing it. You know, I played it once, twice, three, four, five, six, I think. Now, I don't know if you heard rewind but it did go slightly off and again that's proof that it will go off if you don't use the rekordbox software because if that was quantized...

6:15 Club, website, quantize

By my action of maybe pressing it too late, too early, in Quantize, it would have made sure that it was in time and kept it in time for me. So another good reason why you should use the rekordbox software and make sure you're in Quantize mode. Now again, the disadvantage with Quantize, if you want to do some fast work on the hot cue to really sort of slap it up. Then you may find that if you press the hot cue button 10 times, it may only play the cue itself four times because the software is almost like it's saying, well, you're a little bit too early or too late. We won't use that press. We'll wait till you bang on time. So for example, if you want to go... It might just go... I hope you understand that. Oh God. Alright, this one here is a track entitled All Mine. Now don't forget there is a link in the description that will take you to the CDPool website and if you are a DJ, working DJ in and around Europe, you're interested in CDPool then go and check out the info on the website and also...

There's a code in the description of this video. If you use that code, you will get, I still believe it's 50% off your first two months downloads. Now, terms and conditions apply. It's not for everything, but it's worth a look anyway because 50% is 50%. All right, so all mine, the Nick Hook and Martin Sharp remix, I believe. Okay, let's try something else. That'll work. Just gonna drop this one in.

AM, PM, Touch Me, the VIP remix. Now again, the club tracks is all about that club vibe, that club atmosphere, where you want to go in and you want to get involved with the music. You don't want to have some cheesy, poppy, bubblegum style music. You just want to like go with the flow and enjoy the night. Hold in your glass of rum in your hand. So, great tunes here and they've always got a really good eclectic selection on all of the releases. The club releases now, they have underground which is more twisty bendy kind of feel, you've got your urban which is more your R&B, soul, hip-hop, the global which again it's more tended to the deep house and soulful feel. Also, they do have your top 40 releases and so on, and a good back catalogue. So, worth a look at the website. Okay, we've got here track and type upside down. This is the extended vocal mix. You alright Blaze? Yeah, he's alright. He's got a friend around at the moment. Okay, we'll try one more. Gold 88, that looks interesting.

10:24 Almost like, it's almost got that kind of a trance feel to this tune

And yeah, this is my first time listening to these tunes. Almost like, it's almost got that kind of a trance feel to this tune. Put another tune on, let me just go back a little bit. Hot cue there. See, using the hot cue as well, it's another way of like almost making a loop, but then you can make the loop however long or short. So a loop is when you start and stop, and then that will play a determined amount of time based on the size of loop you make. Whereas a hot cue, when you set a hot cue at a certain point, you can let the track play practically until the end. But then as soon as you hit the hot cue, it'll go back to the position where you set the hot cue. So in other words, it's like a loop but then it's a loop that can finish when you want it to finish and start when you want it to finish. Gonna use my loop to come in.

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