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Some you may know, some are definitely wacky, but hopefully you’ll find something you weren’t aware of. By the way, if you’re a Serato DJ Intro user (or indeed you use Serato Scratch Live), most of these will be fine for you too – and there’s a special bonus tip for DJ Intro users at the end too.ġ. Having said that, though, there are best practices, smart ways of working, and even a couple of hidden “Easter eggs” that you can employ to improve your DJing using Serato ITCH.

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Its “closed architecture” means that there’s no remapping or tinkering with most of its settings, either – the software is tied closely to the hardware it works on, with everything predetermined for you by Serato and the various DJ controller companies’ engineers. The ethos seems to be to strip everything back and down, leaving you with just what you need to get the job done. Serato ITCH is a famously easy DJ program to use, which is one reason why many DJs prefer it to more complicated programs. Intended to get DJs going with all the essentials but stripped of many of the bells and whistles, Serato DJ Intro attempts to provide everything a beginner DJ needs to practise the essential skills, before (the company hopes) committing to buying a Serato DJ upgrade.Serato ITCH with the Pioneer DDJ-S1: A relatively pain-free route into digital DJing for CDJ users. Seeing as it’s bundled with an increasing number of starter (and pro!) DJ controllers, it’s also nowadays likely to be many people’s first experience of DJ software.

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And as the Mixtrack Pro is the most popular starter controller among our readers, what better controller to review Serato Intro with? A bit of history Serato was first known for its Serato Scratch Live software, which by popular consent was the first digital vinyl software that really nailed it (and continues to do so). Whereas earlier digital vinyl systems worked, SSL really worked and won fans in droves for being simple – so simple that it didn’t even have sync. This was DJing stripped right back to basics, but with digital. You could always see why old school DJs converted easily to it.

Later on, the company released Serato ITCH for DJ controllers, which had a twist in that it only worked with tightly integrated, licensed hardware.

This meant that similar to the Apple philosophy, everything was a closed show you plugged it in and got what you were given. If you didn’t like something about it, then you couldn’t really change it – all the mappings and functions on the controllers did what Serato and the manufacturers agreed they would do, and that was that.įor some this was great, others not so, but Serato had nailed one thing that trips up many digital DJs at the first hurdle – getting the damned thing to work. Even today, the number one email we get is some variation of: “The same thing’s coming out of my speakers as my headphones.

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New DJs with a dim understanding of Midi, sound cards, and even how DJing works (ie why they even need separate headphones and speakers outputs) can hardly be expected to sail through audio routing configurations, ASIO drivers and software mappings before they’ve even dropped their first MP3 on to a virtual turntable. #SERATO DJ INTRO HARDWARE DISCONNECTED DRIVERS# However, ITCH was and is expensive – it comes bundled with controllers, but the manufacturers pay for the licence per unit, passing that cost on to you. Not good for the casual user wanting to spend just a couple of hundred on something to see if DJing is for them or now.

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Such users were dealt with DJ controllers bundled with Traktor LE and Virtual DJ LE (mainly) – cheap, chopped-down versions of the full strength, paid-for packages, that were just enough to get going.

Serato DJ Intro set-up screen: If you’re looking for a flight deck, you’re likely to be disappointed… #SERATO DJ INTRO HARDWARE DISCONNECTED FULL# Trouble again was that all the set-up issues referred to above were still there – and the speakers/headphones emails kept on hitting our inbox. Neither of these packages, despite best efforts, were or are easy to set up on the average budget DJ controller when you really aren’t sure what you’re doing.

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(By the way, there is currently no upgrade path to ITCH, Scratch or anything else, but as we discussed yesterday in our Reloop Terminal Mix 4 review, surely it can’t be far off.) Maybe realising it was missing a trick, Serato finally launched its own cut-down DJ software package, called Serato DJ Intro. #SERATO DJ INTRO HARDWARE DISCONNECTED UPGRADE#