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Table of Contents
The Deckadance interface ................................................................................................ 5
Quick start 1,2 3… ........................................................................................................ 6
Don’t lose the beat! ....................................................................................................... 7
Inline-help ......................................................................................................................... 8
Deckadance version exclusive features........................................................................ 8
Options & Settings ............................................................................................................ 9
Select a sample rate ................................................................................................... 10
Set the soundcard latency........................................................................................... 10
Set a hardware controller ............................................................................................ 10
Input audio (turntables & CDJ).................................................................................... 10
Microphone inputs....................................................................................................... 11
Headphone (monitor) mix ........................................................................................... 11
Loading a song ............................................................................................................... 12
The Deck..................................................................................................................... 12
The Browser................................................................................................................ 12
The Playlist ................................................................................................................. 12
Tools for mixing tracks .................................................................................................... 13
Peakscope display ...................................................................................................... 13
Beat-phase display ..................................................................................................... 14
Beat-phase fine........................................................................................................... 14
Auto-mix ...................................................................................................................... 14
Auto-fade & Punch-in .................................................................................................. 15
Track selection for the perfect X-fade ......................................................................... 15
BPM, Speed and Pitch ............................................................................................... 16
Cueing tracks & beat analysis..................................................................................... 17
The effects panel ............................................................................................................ 18
Function windows ........................................................................................................... 19
The Relooper .............................................................................................................. 20
The Sampler ............................................................................................................... 21
How to sample loops................................................................................................... 22
Vinyl / External Control ............................................................................................... 23
VST Plugins ................................................................................................................ 25
How to load a VST & MIDI file..................................................................................... 25
Setting an external controller ...................................................................................... 27
Customizing links to an external controller.................................................................. 27
Keyboard shortcuts ......................................................................................................... 28
How to upgrade Deckadance.......................................................................................... 30