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those of you of keen eyes may have
noticed this section of the pads at the
bottom of each deck these pads are
assigned to the functions listed by
these menu selector buttons here such as
hot q FX fade pad scratch and sampler
but most people will be using them for
hockey's hot cues our points in the
track that can be set and triggered and
jump to instantly with a push of a
button you can even use them while the
track is playing to jump to parts of the
track without interrupting playback to
set them is simple here I'm gonna set a
hot cue to ever break down starts in the
track to do this I can use the jog wheel
to scrub through the track to find the
part where the breakdown starts and I
can also use these transport buttons
here to fast forward and slow it down
let's do that now so that's where the
breakdown starts I want to set a hot cue
now it's really simple as you can see
here I have hot you selected on the menu
selector all I need to do is press any
of the empty hot key slots an empty hot
key slot is not illuminated once you've
said it it will light up and now every
time I press the hot key waltz playing
it'll jump back to the start of the
breakdown to delete hot cue is just as
easy all you need to do is press the
shift button and press that hockey you
want to delete as you can see the light
is now off which means the hot cue has
been deleted now the way to get the most
out of hot cues is to set them up before
you go and DJ preparation is key and you
can even set them up in Sarada without
the controller attached hot cues can be
used creatively to create live edits of
the tracks that you're playing I'm gonna
play this track and it's nearing the end
of its chorus when the chorus finishes
the breakdowns gonna start but the
breakdown is quite long so I've set a
hot cue to the end of the breakdown I'm
gonna press that hot cue right when the
chorus finishes is shortened the
breakdown
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and there we go we've shortened the
breakdown and it should enter now
another way you can use them creatively
is by triggering individual hits like a
drum machine now I've got these sets of
individual drum hits whenever I hit them
it's going to be like I'm playing drums
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perfect so a long side hot cueing
there's also regular cueing and to do
that we're going to need headphones now
to use headphones is simple on the sb3
the headphone controls are in the middle
between the two channel strips we've got
the channel selectors 1 2 and also
master when they're lumen ated it means
you'll hear those channels out of your
headphones and of course this big knob
here is the headphone level so make it
louder or quieter now the whole point of
using headphones is so you can hear
things that the audience can't hear for
example if my channel fader for channel
2 is down but I press the number 2 here
and then start manipulating the deck I
can hear things in my headphones that
you can't now here's how you set a
regular cue point all you need to do is
choose the channel you want to cue on
make sure your level is at a comfortable
volume and then use the jog wheel I want
to set our cue on that point there get
to the beginning of that point and
simply press the cue button now every
time I press Q it'll start from that
point cueing is an essential part of DJ
because it lets you set the start point
of the tracks and you need to do that in
order to get your mixes precise anyways
those are just some basic cueing
techniques make sure you go and try them
out for yourself if you want to find out
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