Pioneer DDJ-RB with Underground New Releases CD Pool March 2017

0:00 We've got the Pioneer DDJ-RB, one of their entry level controllers at

Alright guys, we've got the Pioneer DDJ-RB, one of their entry level controllers at the moment. We're using the rekordbox software as well and I've also got some new releases here from CD4, it's the underground releases for March 2017. The track you're listening to at the moment is a track entitled I Get Down. There will be info of course on the CD4 releases, there'll be a hyperlink www.ellaskins.co.uk Here we go, this one I get down. It is what it is, Kevin McKay mix. It's kind of techy vibe to these tunes. I'm going to move this one forward a little bit. Okay, I've engaged slip mode. What slip mode pretty much does is you can do whatever you want to the jog wheel but the underlying track will keep the rhythm of the tune. Now on the DDJ-RB there isn't a slip mode icon but

2:18 Let's find something else

If you have the correct rekordbox software, you can click on the icon which is around about the 1 o'clock position on the virtual turntable. Once that is highlighted in red, then of course, slip mode is engaged. Okay, let's find something else. This one here, Exit, The Fed Conti Brexit Remix. Oh, that's quite appropriate. Okay, let's just skip forward a little bit. I'm going to add some effects in a bit. Let's bring the volume down a little bit. You can't stop the original mix. I don't believe this is a mix that's in phrase, by the way. Good uplifting vibe to this cut. What I like about these sorts of tunes is that you've got that really kind of soulful, deep uplifting vibe, but it's still, it's got that hard kind of grimy edge to it as well. Effect there. Look at the software. Vertical at the moment. Let's go.

5:30 Four deck horizontal if we want to

Four deck horizontal if we want to. Of course I'm not using four decks at the moment, just two. Two deck horizontal, there you go. Now I did a video on the new releases, I think it was the club releases March 2017, and I explained about where your laptop should be positioned. Notice my controller is facing, I'm directly behind the controller or in front of it, behind it, whatever way you want to look at it really. My laptop is to the right of me. So why is the laptop positioned there? Well, if I was in a club environment playing to any amount of people, I want to see the people in front of me. They do not want to see me with a laptop like that. Me gawping at a laptop. It looks bad, it's very unprofessional, so always make sure your laptop is either one side or the other.

6:35 Just bear that in mind

Also, you're less likely then just to gawp at it all the time. So, just bear that in mind. Okay, let's choose another tune. Let's have a look. Go towards the end of Can't Stop. Finish off here with a track entitled Funky Tease. This is the Tease Freeze mix. Again, Tease Freeze. It's got to be the one and only Mr Todd Terry and also DJ Pierre as well. Okay, let's go. Let's move forward a little bit. Again, we can use slip mode if we want to. So I'm going to go to the icon Slip. That is now highlighted in red. Slicer. I can now slice up part of the track. So if you look at the software, we've got three bars that are now highlighted and I can slice up part of those two bars. So of course we have two bars and we have eight pads. Each pad is for one beat.

9:40 Hot cue, engage slip mode

I don't suggest you do that though. Slipmoding disengaged, go to a hot cue, engage slip mode now, use the hot cue, but of course when slip mode is engaged it will go to that hot cue, but as soon as you take your finger off it will carry on as the track would normally be playing anyway. Okay, yeah, go on then, let's do one more. Okay, we'll finish off here with track entitled You See The Original Mix, We Are Nuts. No. I'm nuts. Definitely. Gotta be in this wild, mad world. What are those mad bass lines? Ooh! Okay, don't forget, check out the link in the description to CDPool and also go and check out the DDJ-RB. Even if you're not a DJ at the moment and you feel like dabbling... The likes of the RB is relatively inexpensive, it's a great beginner controller and also in conjunction with the rekordbox software you can bring your music to life. So if you've always wanted to have a little bit of a dabble then there's no harm in investing is there really? Okay, practice and enjoy, thank you.

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