DJcity Summary:
- Take full control of Serato Scratch Live’s cue points and
looping features. The Dicers give you
the ability to cue, auto-loop, and loop roll without having to touch your
keyboard or remember certain keyboard commands.
They definitely come in handy in situations where you are unable to have
the laptop set up right in front of you.
- The Dicer’s design allow them to be conveniently placed on
your turntables or CDJs so you won’t have to create extra space around the DJ
setup like you would have to with some other controllers. They’re also extremely portable. The buttons are also extremely responsive and
made from a durable rubber material that will be able to withstand extreme use.
- Used by many notable DJs including DJ Vice, Jazzy Jeff,
Z-Trip, and DMC Champion DJ Vajra.
DJcity Staff Pick
Overview:
Serato Scratch Live has a new partner: The Novation Dicer.
Developed
with Serato, this palm-sized cue point and looping controller has been
designed to fit exactly where you need it: on your turntables, CDJs,
mixer or laptop. Dicer always ships in pairs - one for each side.
Plug
Dicer in, slot it on your turntable/CDJ, and you can instantly set cue
points and use them to trigger 'Hot Cues'. Or, flip Dicer into
'Auto-Loop' or 'Loop Roll' modes, to trigger loops, or 'roll' sections
of the track to create climaxes, drops and glitchy breaks. Each 'mode'
illuminates Dicer's pads a different color, so you can instantly see
what mode the pads in, even in dark clubs and venues.
The Scratch Live 2.1
update
will automatically map the Dicer to these functions and provide full LED
feedback - red for Hot Cues, green for Loop Roll, and amber for
Auto-Loop. Dicer can control all cue-point and looping functions in the
current version of Serato Scratch Live 2.0. This requires you to simply
'learn' cue-point and looping to Dicer's pads, using Scratch Live's
MIDI-learn function. Scratch Live 2.1 is available
now,
click here for details.
Dicer's
buttons can also 'learn' other software functions. So, you can assign
different FX to the pads, or trigger samples over the top of your mix,
or even browse tracks in your iTunes library!
Dicer
does not come with its
own software, it works in conjunction with Serato Scratch Live or any other
major DJ software such as Traktor Scratch Pro.
Official Serato Licensed Product.
