The Applied Examples
Chances are anyone with no patience may have seen the title and jumped straight here. That's great that you're so keen but if you are an inexperienced user it might be worth scanning the first sections at least.
For the hardcore readers out there welcome to the final section: where we show you an example of using a pre-made loop and a preset hot cue together in close harmony.
PART 1 - The Loop
For this example we are using the famous Mr Jack accapella (words only for any newbies, no backing music). The section we have chosen to use is as follows.
"let there be house......and house music was born..."
I mentioned that you don't have to be limited to looping in blocks of four beats. We have picked this section as when you loop it over four beats what you actually get is:
"let there be house.....and.."
When looped is sounds like:
"let there be house......and....let there be house ......and....let there be house"
That sounded rubbish as we only wanted "let there be house". A we've already stated the loop didn't fit over the four beats as we have essentially chopped off the end of the last beat. When it was played over a four beat so it was looping back to the beginning too quickly. Finely tuned adjustments to the end of the sample only sorted it so much. It was still the wrong physical length.
We then pitched the deck down slightly with Master Tempo set to ON to retain the tone of Jack's voice. .This has in effect lengthened our 3.5 beat sample so it stretched to 4. Cheeky eh?
PART 2 - The Hot Cue
We set the hot cue point to the very beginning of the accapella.
The Demo'd Accapella Mash-Up
The instrumental track over which our accapella is placed is:
Soul Central - Strings of Life [Defected]
In reality you'd never loop it for this long as this as it's surprisingly enough can get fairly repetitive! Its been over exaggerated for the sake of this. You could take it on stage further if you have a digital mixer and add echo, delay etc. the list is endless to add variety.
OK. I understand your vinyl roots but hold onto your horses until we have shown you what you can do if your a little bit creative. Functions you thought were there for adjustments can be cunningly used in a mix, probably where you wouldn't expect.
Its in Windows Media Video format and may take a few moments to load. It is done at lowest bit rate so will run no problems even over an ISDN connection with no hiccups. I couldn't make it for dial up users as the quality loss was so bad it made it rubbish.
Over to Funked Up to give us a little demo. The process has been done deliberately slowly so hopefully you can see all the buttons, what's being pressed and the method of what's going on. 
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