The Panels at a Glance

the following graphics shows the different panels of croSS DJ user interface.

Head-Up Display (HUD)

Player A Player B

Advanced Controls Player A Advanced Controls Player B

Browser and Preview Player

Recorder Mixer

Selecting the User Interface Language

If the user interface is not in your language or the language you wish to use you can change it. open the file menu and click on preferences. make sure that the Display tab is open. open the list language and select your preferred language.

Head-Up Display

the Head-up Display in the upper part of the croSS DJ windows is the control centre for the external inputs and it contains the Beat matcher, which serves as a visual guide for getting your tracks beat synchronised. When the media loaded into one of the players contains artwork, like a cover image, it is shown in the Head-up Display.

the buttons a/B at the left and the right side of the Head-up Display allow to con-nect external inputs to player a or player B. the buttons on the left control the source configured as Left Input and the buttons on the right control the source configured as Right Input (Preferences dialog, Audio tab).

When there is no external source configured to an input then the corresponding buttons are disabled, as you can see for the right Input in the image above. oth-erwise the buttons are enabled and you can click them to select, via which player the external source shall be audible. an external input can only be assigned to one of the players.

let’s assume that your mp 3 player like the ipod™ is connected to the left Input, you have an audio file playing in player A and that you wish to play some music from the mp3 player next. to achieve this you should click button B on the left side of the Head-up Display to be able to get the music from your mp3 player into the croSS DJ mixer.

the largest part of the Head-up Display is occupied by the Beat matcher. the Beat matcher displays the peak/transient information of the tracks currently playing in the two players. for tracks that have a beatgrid, croSS can also show the grid on the Beat matcher. additionally, you can enable the Bar Sync meter and the cycle Sync meter, which serve as a visual guide when beat mixing your tracks. the beat-grid and the sync meters can be activated on the Display tab of the Preferences

Player A and B

the largest area of the croSS DJ user interface is occupied by the two players.

Pitch and Tempo

Transport Playback Info Waveform with Beatgrid

Full Track Display

the player on the left is called player a (yellow); the player on the right is player B (red). the waveform area shows a section from the track currently playing. you can use the outer buttons to zoom in, zoom out and to reset the waveform to the default zoom factor. the white vertical line is the play marker and marks the part of the track that is currently audible.

the inner panel of the players contain the pitch faders that work similarly to the pitch faders that can be found on turntables and cDJ players.

the section with the black background shows some vital playback information: the current time, the remaining time, the current Bpm and the current tempo change as a percentage value.

the transport section contains the play/pause and the cue buttons; they work in a similar way to the corresponding buttons on a cDJ player. you can use the Smart Seek buttons in the transport section to jump forward/backward in a track and define the jump length in beats or fractions of a beat. Click the Reverse button at the right side of the transport section if you wish to play the track backwards.

Advanced Controls for Player A/B

Below the player you see a panel with the advanced controls. they allow you to set locators/hot cues in your tracks, to create automatic and manual loops and to modulate the player audio with the effects. chapter 9 starting on page 88 takes a closer look at the features of the advanced controls panel

Loops

Mixer

there are two different views for the mixer panel: one for internal mixer mode and another one for external mixer mode.

The Mixer panel in internal mixer mode has all the controls that you would find on a classic DJ mixer:

• the Volume section with three knobs where you can control the mas-ter out volume, the Headphone volume and the ratio between the monitor and the mix signal that is sent to the Headphones.

the master Volume can be set on u-mIX control pro with the master knob on the top panel of the controller. the right side of the front panel contains two knobs to set the ratio between the monitor and the mix signal and the volume of the headphones.

Cue/Master Ratio Headphones Level Master Volume

• the cue/monitor buttons for each player. activating the cue button of a player sends the audio to the Headphones; the channel fader of the corresponding player does not need to be up for the audio to be heard.

• the two channel faders that control the volume of the two players.

• the cross fader that controls the ratio between the left player and the right player. If you use U-MIX CONTROL PRO you can configure the shape of the cross fader curve with the knob on the rear panel of the controller from a quick cut for scratching or to a longer fade for mixing.

• a 3 band equalizer for each player to control the cut/boost of the three fre-quency ranges and a Kill button for each range to complete cut it. the mixer sections of the u-mIX control pro and u-mIX control 2 controllers con-tain dedicated encoders for the three frequency ranges of the equalizer. turn the encoders to modify the equalization of your media file. Treble, medium and bass can be adjusted with these knobs. press the encoder to completely cut the low, mid or high frequencies of your media file.

In both mixer modes the mixer panels show the fader level of the player. pre-fader means that the position of the channel pre-fader and the cross pre-fader does not affect the level meter.

again, in both mixer modes you can use the Sources button to select the Input mode.

Recorder

the buttons in the recorder panel can be used to record your mix, to record the audio of the players, or to record both at the same time. more information about the recorder panel can be found in section “recording” on page 99

Browser and Preview Player

the Browser panel allows you to access the tracks in your collection and your itunes library. this panel offers some sophisticated search features so you can quickly find the track you wish to play next. The browser is explained in more detail