Rane SIXTY-TWO Operator's Manual - Organizing
Scratch Live can support an unlimited
number of tracks – the only limitation
is the size of the hard drive of your
computer. A number of features are
included to help you to keep your music
organized and find songs quickly and
easily.
Grouping Tracks into Crates
Scratch Live supports several ways of
organizing and sorting your file library.
iTunes users will notice that Scratch Live
can incorporate your existing iTunes
library and playlists.
Scratch Live uses digital “crates” for
quick access to your favorite collections.
There is no limit to the number of crates
you can create, and any given track can
be placed in multiple crates. For example,
you could organize your files into the
following crates, where any one track
would be filed in more than one crate:
• Hip Hop
• UK Hip Hop
• French Hip Hop
• Inst Hip Hop
• Old Hip Hop
• Hip Hop LPs
• Bunny Hop
To make a new crate, click the Add New
Crate button in the bottom left corner
of the main screen
(
brown crate
icon
). To rename a crate, double click the
crate name.
You can change the order of tracks
within a crate by sorting by the “#” column
and dragging them up or down.
Organizing
Your Music
TIP: Check the ‘Protect library’ option
in the Library tab of the Setup screen to
prevent changes to your crates. If you
do delete a crate by accident, you can
get it back from the recycle bin / trash.
Crate files have the extension .crate.
Subcrates
You can drag and drop crates into other
crates to make subcrates. If you drag a
crate to the very left of the crate panel,
it will stay in the top level of the crate
structure. If you drag the crate a little to
the right, onto the name of another crate,
it will make the crate you are dragging a
sub crate of the first crate.
Smart Crates
Smart crates update their contents by
using keywords which are matched
with selected tags of your music library
tracks. Smart crates can be updated
automatically or at your discretion.
To create a smart crate, click the Add
Smart Crate button in the bottom left
corner of the main screen
(
blue
crate icon
). A popup window will open
which allows you to add the rules to fill
your smart crate. Press
Add Rule
to add a
rule for the smart crate to match with. For
each rule you can choose a field to match
on from the drop down menu:
• Added (date)
• Album
• Artist
• BPM
• Comment
• Composer
• Filename
• Genre
• Grouping
• Key
• Label
• Remixer
• Song
• Whitelabel
• Year
You can then choose the following
inclusion / exclusion criteria:
• Contains
• Is
• Does not contain
• Is not
MIDI Layers
The mixer is capable of changing MIDI
Layers in order to MIDI map one control
to multiple functions under different
contexts. Changing the MIDI Layer is the
same thing as changing the MIDI channel.
The MIDI Layers used for Left Deck
and Right Deck can be independently
selected. The third group of controls that
is not associated with PGM 1, PGM 2 or
either control strip will use the MIDI Layer
of the group that it is assigned to with the
SP-6 ASSIGN
button. By default, the other
MIDI Layers inherit the functionality of
the first Layer. The crossfader is the only
control that will only send traffic on MIDI
Layer 1.
• Holding down the
CUES / SAMPLES
button
will turn all of the Cue buttons yellow.
The Left Deck Cue buttons and Right
Deck Cue buttons will each have one
Cue button brightly lit. The button that
is brightly lit indicates the current MIDI
Layer for that group.
• While holding down the
CUES /
SAMPLES
button, press the Cue button
corresponding with the desired MIDI
Layer. This will change the MIDI Layer
for the deck that Cue button belongs
to. It is not necessary to wait for the
Cue buttons to display the current MIDI
Layer in order to change the MIDI Layer.
• MIDI layer corresponds to the MIDI
channel:
MIDI LAYER
MIDI CHANNEL
1
1
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
NOTE: The Scratch Live controls on the
mixer’s control strips are not mappable
in Layer 1 because they are reserved
for the default Scratch Live functions.
These controls are fully mappable in
Scratch Live on all other MIDI Layers.
All controls on all layers are mappable
in third-party applications that support
MIDI Mapping.
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