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Serato is actually really good at letting you edit tags, even if you’re playing from iTunes playlists – something some other DJ software infuriatingly seems incapable of providing. I am all for maintaining your library when you’re DJing – adding stuff in the comments, correcting BPMs, genres and so on – because that’s where you’re most likely to realise things are wrong. Edit multiple fields at once in your library To get Serato to double or halve a BPM for you, you double-click the offending BPM in the library (as if to edit it manually), then hold ALT and press the up cursor arrow (to double the BPM), or the down cursor arrow (to halve it).Ģ. Serato wisely doesn’t try and show you BPM to multiple decimal places – let’s be honest who cares if a BPM is 123.334 or 123.543!īut that means should the program inaccurately guess a BPM (which nearly always means it guesses it half or double the speed it should be) it’s actually impossible for you to completely accurately double or halve the BPM using arithmetic, because you don’t know the exact starting BPM. Luckily it’s simple to get Serato to do that calculation for you. Accurately halve or double the BPM of files Some you may know, some are definitely wacky, but hopefully you’ll find something you weren’t aware of. By the way, if you’re a Serato DJ Intro user (or indeed you use Serato Scratch Live), most of these will be fine for you too – and there’s a special bonus tip for DJ Intro users at the end too.ġ. Having said that, though, there are best practices, smart ways of working, and even a couple of hidden “Easter eggs” that you can employ to improve your DJing using Serato ITCH. Its “closed architecture” means that there’s no remapping or tinkering with most of its settings, either – the software is tied closely to the hardware it works on, with everything predetermined for you by Serato and the various DJ controller companies’ engineers. The ethos seems to be to strip everything back and down, leaving you with just what you need to get the job done. Serato ITCH is a famously easy DJ program to use, which is one reason why many DJs prefer it to more complicated programs. Serato ITCH with the Pioneer DDJ-S1: A relatively pain-free route into digital DJing for CDJ users.