Reloop Terminalmix2 with Serato DJ Intro

0:01 I notice about the hardware

Alright guys, got a piece of kit here from Reloop. It's known as the Terminal Mix 2, comes with Serato DJ intro and the first thing I notice about the hardware is that it's nice and solid and chunky, it's got some weight to it. I'm old school. When you find items that have got a little bit of weight to it, you can imagine that there's a lot going on there. Maybe there's not that many internal workings but maybe they have decided to construct it out of metal so it will last a lot longer. And they have done with this. So, it feels good. Got a bit of class to it. Right, I'm going to talk a little bit first of all about mobile phones and you're probably going, uh, uh, uh. I'll explain. When the first mobile phone came out, you could phone someone, that was about it. Then you could text, etc. Now you can do virtually anything you want on your mobile phone, including you can DJ.

We have different makes of mobile phones. So say, for example, you're using an iPhone and then all of a sudden maybe you buy a Sony Ericsson. Well, even though they're two separate makes, someone will probably go, yeah, but they've joined partners now. I don't know that. Even though they're two separate makes, as soon as you buy your new phone, you start to know your way around it quite quickly because they're all very similar. They've all got similar ways of how you get to this folder and that folder, Where you're, say, you can text someone, where you can phone someone, maybe where you go on the web, etc. Now, controllers are near enough exactly the same. These clever people have decided to make them easy to understand. So, if we have a look at this little baby here, we have a centre point here. That is near enough the area where you will start to go through your folders, your files in your PC.

We have an area here which is not dissimilar to the likes of a normal DJ mixer. We have filter effects, we have sample volume, we have low, mid and high, we have our gain, we have our master volume, we have our booth volume, we have our headphones volume and cue mix. So straight away if we look at that and we're familiar with a DJ mixer you can go oh yeah right fine sorted. If we have a look over here right center point now if I just Scroll around. If I just, I'm just going to go turn this dial here. So if I turn that we can see that we're going through the different folders and if I press down on there, I've just pressed down here, now we are through to the next folders. So for example there, Danny J Lewis Feel It, press down and if I want to now, hold on, no I've already pressed that haven't I? I've already got it there.

2:46 We've got that track, good to go

I've already actually got that there. So we've got that track, good to go. Press play. There you go. Right, that track by the way is Danny J Lewis' tracking title, Feel It. Now, Serato DJ intro is relatively basic, you've still got to know what you're doing, but I would say give yourself a day or so and you'll get used to it with ease. It's a nice program because it is relatively... Simple to use. It's not rocket science by all means. Right, so, put that up. I've got a couple of samples here. Sample is Bucky Don Gunn. Effects up here. You see, one thing I've noticed about this player, or the controller should I say, is the platters have got a very nice tactile feel to them. Touch sensitive here as well.

5:10 It sort of felt as though it was rubber, but there's metal there

And I'm not sure, but I think, yeah it is metal. It sort of felt as though it was rubber, but there's metal there. Now again, where latency is concerned, that is of course dependent on how fast your PC is and I will say this hopefully in every single video when I'm using controllers. is make sure you haven't got anything running in the background. If you've got Skype going on or you're on the web chatting to your mates on Facebook, there's a possibility you're going to be using some of the RAM in your PC and of course that's readily available memory. Ideally if you're going to have a controller make sure your laptop or the PC you're using is only going to be doing this especially like hello hold on come on listen to me especially

If you're doing a gig and you've got people, people are paid for you to be the DJ. The last thing you want to do is all of a sudden have your PC crash because you've got half a dozen things including a washing machine going on in the background. Alright, now this in a way I suppose we're going to class as video number one and what I will do is a few more on this guy and give some more demos on it and tutorials. Practice and enjoy!

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