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Use Hot Cues on Pioneer DDJ SX2

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Hi! You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show how to use the hot cue points on the Pioneer DDJ SX2.

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1 Steps
2 Video: Use Hot Cues on Pioneer DDJ SX2
3 Questions and Answers
- 3.1 How do I use the second hot cue mode?
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To use the hot cue points, we press the "HOT CUE" button on the controller
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We will notice that there are two modes: the dark-blue mode and the white-blue mode. We want to make sure that the button is on the white-blue mode, or the lighter of the two modes. This is the mode where we can set the hot cue points. We can set the hot cue points when the track is paused or is playing.

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To set a hot cue point, we just press any of the pads
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We have a total of eight pads that we can use.

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We can delete the hot cue points by pressing "SHIFT" and pressing the ones that we want to delete
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When the cue point is set, we will hear a trigger from the cue point
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We can also set the cue points while the controller is playing
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We can also use the playhead on the controller to select a specific spot at which we want to place a cue point
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Once our cue points are set, we can go over to a particular cue point in the Serato DJ software
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For example, we want the red pad to stand for the beginning of the song
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In this video, the color green stands for the beginning of the song; so, we will go over to the red color in the software and change the color to green. We will notice that the color will be changed on the controller as well.

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