Why does a DJ use , Video 16, Pitch bend?

Alright folks, this is video number 16 in a selection I'm doing entitled Why Does a DJ Use? In this one we're going to be looking at these two buttons here. You can see above them a minus and a plus and in the middle there you've got the word bend. Now then, you can find these two buttons on 99% of CDJs around the world and quite often they're known as pitch bend. Now then, very quickly first what we're going to do, I'm just going to give you an idea. The pitch control. We will keep in dead centre, we're not going to be touching the pitch control at all, so we'll play the music without touching anything first. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to move the jog wheel clockwise with my finger and you can hear the music speed up. Take my finger off the jog wheel and you can hear now the music's gone back to its original speed. Now I'm going to move the jog wheel anti-clockwise and you can hear the music slowing down. Take my finger off the jog wheel

And the music goes back to its original speed. What I'm going to do now is touch the minus on the bend or the pitch bend. And you can hear the music do exactly the same thing when I was moving the actual jog wheel anti-clockwise. The music is now slowing down. As soon as I take my finger off the pitch bend, the music goes back to its original speed. When I touch then the plus on the pitch bend, the music speeds up. Which is exactly the same as when I was touching the jog wheel and moving the jog wheel clockwise. As soon as I take my finger off the bend, or the pitch bend, the music goes back to its original speed. Now the DJ will use the minus and plus pitch bend just to basically fine tune the beat to get it in beat with the actual track that's playing. Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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