DJ Expo has been going for years, but in recent times it seems to be garnering a lot more attention, especially from Numark. And Numark is using it as a public showcasing of their recently announced Numark NV Serato DJ controller — yes, the one with the screens. But the one thing that was missing at the announcement (well 99.9% missing anyway) was the inclusion of the yet to be announced Serato Flip expansion pack. We know all about it now of course, but Numark has stepped up its NV marketing campaign and produced a video showing it in action.
Last year, the Numark NS7II was a huge success at the show, so this year Numark is pulling out all the stops to make sure that the maximum number of DJ get the Numark NV experience. If Facebook is anything to go by, new Marketing Director Karl Detken is borderline busking with one to get it under the noses of as many DJs as possible.
Great stuff!! The future looks bright for Serato users!
Really dig the look of this controller with the on board screens and small form-factor.
Still not really clear on what ‘flip’ really does. You are just recording yourself breaking up parts of the track and adding effects so that you can play it back later? It doesn’t seem that useful to me. I would like to see it used in a real club setting maybe.
Serato Flip is the recording of hot cue and censor actions. Hit record, play hot cues and censors in realtime, stop record – that’s a flip done. And you can loop them too. You can save six back to the track you flipped and recall them at any time. The effects aren’t recorded. Is that clearer?
Wasn’t exactly sure what was going on in that video as well until you explained it in this reply. At first I thought It was a great way to make custom edits to tracks but how you just described it saddens me thinking a feature like this makes it too easy to fake the funk.
It’s like a lot of things – it depends on how you use it. Looked at from a certain perspective, isn’t the simply act of looping faking the funk?
If your playing a loop and pretending to juggle it, then yes that’s faking it.
You can do a bunch of different things with Flip . Making custom edits like extending intros or skipping verses etc is definitely one of the main ways to use it :)
Have you ever had a track that would be such a bomb, if it just didn’t have that 1.30 vocal break that ruined the energy. Now you just flip it once properly & recall whenever you play it.
its like a midi sequencer running in the background.
seems to small for my liking
+1
Isn’t that just a hot cue ?