Now we've covered some of the basic features of the SB, I'll take you through some of the more advanced features.
This includes the Hot Cue, the looping, the FX section and the filters.
Below each deck, you'll see four pads and these will link to the effect selector at the top.
If we start with Hot Cues, just press "HOT-CUE" and then you're in Hot Cue mode.
You've got four Hot Cues you can play with here.
With the hot cues, you can set a point anywhere within a track, then you can instantly jump to that point in the track without interrupting playback at all.
If I play a track, I can then touch each button to set each Hot Cue.
So, I've set three Hot Cues here and if I press the buttons again, it will jump to the point that I had set previously.
The playback doesn't stop at all, there's no interruptions, no dips in the music or anything, just jumps straight to it.
You can use these for different parts of a track.
You can jump straight to a breakdown, a build, a certain fill in the track you want to use and you can jump straight to it easily.
It's very simple to use. Just simply press the button to save it and you can jump straight to it.
If you set a Hot Cue and you want to delete it, all you need to do is press 'Shift' and then touch the Hot Cue you want to delete.
Again, if you want to set a Hot Cue and the track is playing [playing music], you want to get a high hat, for example, you can press the button in time with the 'High Hat', let's see if we've got it.
If it's not quite right, we can delete it and we can scrub through the track and we can watch the waveform on display if we want as well and then all you do is press the button when you're at that point and it will save the Hot Cue as well in exact same way.
As you can hear, we've got that pretty spot-on there.
So, that's the Hot Cue section.
Next one along is Auto Loop and the four pad buttons then link to Auto Loop.
So, what we've got is a one beat loop, a two beat loop, a four beat loop and an eight beat loop.
Simply pressing one of these buttons toggles that loop of that beat division.
So, to give an example [playing music], there's a one beat loop.
Press again to turn that one off.
Two beat loop.
Obviously on screen, you can see that around the waveform, it's been highlighted blue.
That's to say where the loop area is.
Here's a four beat loop, so you can see the highlighted area is a bit wider, covering 4 beats.
Then eight beat loop is there.
So, that's the Auto Loop, very simple, simply just hit a button, loops in, press it again, loops off.
The next one is Manual Loop.
You can use this with Auto Loop but I'll get to that in a moment.
What Manual Loop does is lets you set loops to any length that you personally choose to use.
Rather than using one, two, four or eight, I could use a half or I could use 16 or anything I want.
Let me show you that.
So, you press 'In' to start the loop and you press 'Out' to finish the loop.
So, there's a one beat loop.
This button is now illuminated once I've set the loop, pressing it will exit the loop.
Let's do a one bar loop.
There's four beats, which is one bar.
What I can do then, the furthest right button is Half Time, which will cut the loop by half, so I'll go from four to two, to one, to half, and so on.
The way this works with Auto Loop is if I've set a loop, let's say I've set a four beat loop here, that's toggled, same applies, I can half that and then to come out of it, simply hit 'Exit' again.
One last feature you can do, if you've set a loop, you can then press 'Out' again, just 'Out' is now illuminating and I can use the jog wheel to pull back the length of that loop.
As you can see on screen, the waveform has stopped, so as I pull it back, the blue section is now decreasing in size.
It's not rhythmically correct as obviously it's not set to one beat, two beat, one bar, it's just as you put it, so it's complete manual timing.
You can create some crazy sort of effects there [playing music] and, of course, once you've set here, you've set like a tone, the loop is so short, it just sounds like a buzz.
You can use the tempo slider there and you get pretty creative some effects.
You can use it for builds, risers or breakdowns for different tracks.
You could drop them into another track at this point as well, so it's quite a creative tool you can use and you can use it as much or as little as you want.
So, the final beat section here is the Sampler.
With this, you can have samples preloaded into Serato.
You can see on screen, you've got four different play buttons and four different sounds.
You've got a 'Kick', a 'Snare', a 'Clap', and a 'Hat', so these four buttons represent those.
So, as I press these buttons here, you can hear the sound that is linked to that sample.
So the first, is a 'Kick' [plays sound], 'Snare' [plays sound]', 'Clap' [plays sound], and 'Hat' [plays sound].
These are laid over a track playing, for example, so the sample is laid over a track there.
You can also customise the samples.
We've got a collection of our own samples here, you can get your own or you can use different parts of different tracks, you can drag anything you want, click and drag, and drop it into the sample section.
You'll see it change and straight away that sample is going to work instantly for the one you just dragged into the section.
So, you can find any sample you want.
You can click and drag and you can drop it into the box for the sample and then the second you press the button, you're going to hear that sample play out straight away.
At the top of each deck, you'll see the FX section.
What you've got is three different buttons and a control.
If you look at Serato, you've got two buttons here for 'Samples' and 'FX'. If we click 'FX', you can see the effects there for each deck. From left to right, we've got 'Echo', 'Reverb' and 'High Pass Filter'.
We've got 'Depth' below that and we've got 'On/off'.
So, the buttons on the SB turn each effect on and off.
Any one of those can be on or off at any time.
Then the control will change the level of each effect.
So, each one is done at the same time, so if your echo is at 50 per cent, your reverb and your high pass filter will be at that as well.
If you hold down 'Shift' and turn the control, you then get a change in the timing of the effect, so it's going from one-eighth timing all the way up until eight bars, so you can change that to any one of those timings you want even if the effect is on.
Finally, you'll notice on the SB just below each number you've got, where it says 'Select', again, if you hold 'Shift' and tap a button, it's going to change with the effects, so we've got echo on the left, now we've got reverb, now high pass filter, so you can choose the effects that way.
So, I'm going to play the track [plays music] and activate the echo.
Now, I'm going to increase the depth of that.
You can you hear that kicking in the background now.
If I hold down 'Shift' and adjust the level parameter, I can now change the beat timing, so that's one-eighth, half, one bar, up into eight bars.
The effects tail will continue if I pause the track.
If I hit 'Cue', the remainder of that effect is still playing until it runs out.
So, there's the more advanced features on the SB.
You can get really creative with those when doing your mixes and, of course, if you upgrade your Serato to Serato DJ, you get a lot more features.
You get another four Hot Cues, so you've got eight in total, you get four different sample banks, so you have 16 in total and the FX become multi-FX rather than single, so you can activate & control each one individually. In the next video we'll show you more about Serato DJ.