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Use Loop Roll Mode on Pioneer DDJ SX2

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you the loop roll mode on the Pioneer DDJ SX2 DJ controller.

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To use the loop roll mode, we press "ROLL"
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The button will light up in green.

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We press "PLAY" to start playing the track
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3
We press the left "PARAMETER" button several times
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The "PARAMETER" buttons control the duration of eight different roll lengths that we have.
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4
We press the first pad button
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It will be at 1/32nd. The controller will loop a very small portion of the track. In this video, the track was at 12.5 seconds.

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5
We release the pad button
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The track will go where it actually would be playing had we not pressed the button. In this video, the track is now at 29 seconds.
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We press the right "PARAMETER" button twice
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The beat length will be changed. The first pad button will be at the 1/8th step.

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We tap the third pad button
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It is at half beat.
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We tap the fourth pad button
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It is at one beat.

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We tap the fifth pad button
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It is at two beats.
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