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Use Effects in Virtual DJ

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow.com. This is going to be a tutorial on how to add effects in Virtual DJ. Now, Virtual DJ comes with a variety of effects built in. I'm going to show you how to use those effects.

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First of all we're going to get our track ready and start playing it
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Let's skip forward in the track a little bit. Now, we are ready to add the effect.

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We're going to click on the "EFFECTS" button and here we can see a few different effects that are available
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In the bottom left corner of the screen, there's a few effects, like "backspin" "beat grid", "brake", "Distorter" "Phaser", "Reverb", "WahWah", "Echo", "Flanger", "Flippin Double", "Key Changer", "Over loop", "TK Filter V2", and "vocals+".

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To stop a track, we use "backspin"
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Let's go ahead and see what that would sound like. I'm going to press "Activate on Deck 1". It gives an effect of stopping the track.
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If we click "beatgrid" we can use this purple grid
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On the top half of the screen, we have samples. Each purple block is a single beat. By clicking on these, it gives a cool skipping effect.

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Then we have "brake" which is kind of like "backspin", but it slows down the track, in a different way
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We have "Distorter"
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Let's go ahead and play that by clicking "Activate on Deck 1". It does not work to well on low-end computers. It doesn't work well on most computers unless we have a really high-grade computer. We're going to skip that for now, as it doesn't work on most computers.

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Here we have "Phaser"
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Let's listen to it. It gives a phaser effect. We can play around with the effects.
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Now we are going to go the "Reverb" option
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This just adds a little bit of a reverb. We can play around with the settings again to find a good option.

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The "WahWah" effect makes it sound really compressed
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There's the "echo" effect, which adds an echo
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We have the "flanger" which does a flanger effect
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We have the "FlippinDouble", which doubles every beat
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It would be a good way to transition between songs.
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We have the "KeyChanger" which just changes the pitch
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If we add it at zero, it would not do anything, but if we went down to minus three it would make it a lower pitch. Plus three would be a higher pitch.
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We also have "overloop", which just loops a beat over the beat
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It makes it sound really loud, so we're going to want to turn our volume down. It basically just overlays the beat over the beats.
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Next, we have the "TK Filter V2"
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Let's play it. We're going to want to move the red dot around in the box in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. This filters the different sounds so that we can get only the high pitch sounds, the low pitch sounds, or whatever we want.
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We have "vocals+" which moves the vocals
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It can make it to where we can only hear the vocals. Now this does not work perfectly, with a lot of electronic songs. Let's just play that. It's actually pretty good, considering it's getting rid of all the background sounds. We can still hear a good amount of the background and a little bit of the kick.
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That's all of the effects that are in Virtual DJ
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Is the 'Flippin Double' effect not in Virtual DJ 8?

I looked for the effect, and it doesn't show up. Is there a substitute for it?. I have tried: I've tried searching things for help, but got none. I think it was caused by: I think the software was updated, and they took off this effect.