I've had many people ask me how I set my cue points. Here you go. Join me on Discord / discord Links to the gear I review and use. www.amazon.com/shop/cleveland... Support me on Patreon www.patreon.com/user?u=33345166
Yes do more videos like this if possible. The reason is that you have a way of explanation that is comprehensive. Other pros think everyone is just in the know and even if we know, some won't it explained like they don't. It's just your personality that gives us better comprehension on the tutorial. Thank you much.
It does not matter how obvious a topic is, someone will always learn. I use cue points heavily but did not know you can name them or the idea of naming them. So thank you.
What up dude, and Merry Christmas. To the question you asked...yes these type of "tutorial/how to/this is how I do it" videos are very helpful and enlightening. Please keep them coming!
I was already kind of working in this way. That being said, I still picked up a bit of information that I hadn't considered. Thank you so much my brother. Happy New Year and much respect.
Very useful - and yes please, more "how to" videos like this! One more thing - you are sharing your considerable personal experience, no need to apologise for that. I guess there are always people who will disagree with you - so let them go set up their own RU-vid channel to tell the world how THEY do it while you keep sharing how YOU do it! (I know which channel I'm going to watch...!)
It’s always great to hear how other people use the features of the software. Flip and slicer makes my head spin. Be great to see you cover those in depth if you haven’t already?. Merry Christmas 🍻👊🏼
This was cool to know that I set up the same way. I use cues on most beat changes: Intros, verses, bridges, hooks, outros and sounds/parts I think I may wanna scratch. I’ve only been at this for 7 months but like you said, “Set it for how your brain works.” I didn’t know that you could name the cues so that was cool to see too. Thanks man!
Enjoyed the tutorial. Even though I know how to set up the queue points to best suite myself. it’s interesting to hear someone else perspective, you might find a nugget of info. Keep them coming.
Love this info. I’ve just made the changes in my settings, and I plan to label the cue points from now on. This will really help! I’m not sure if you’ve already covered it, but it’d be good to see a vid going over how you deal with setting/correcting beat grids that are off. Thanks for posting.
Good info, thanks! would be cool to hear you work the cue points. Actually hear the advantage of having an intro / exit cue point. Will def check out more of your videos.
Great info. I would also add that you can change the color of the cue point marker. I assign my cue points similar to you and I also make verse yellow, hook green, bridge blue etc..It helps a lot just glancing at the waveform you can see the song structure very quickly.
great video; my pops used to slap my upside my head when using his LP's to always let the intro's play out; he used to say; stop rushing the song; but like you said; it made me realize that the intro's in most songs are important to hold and lock in...some songs have vocal points that are historic to to lock in as cue's Ex "big pun verbal piece on deep cover remix; when he talks about little Italy speed rap verse....so yes; cues have come a long way; but are very important.
Different points of view is how people learn from one another. Honestly I made the mistake of exporting Cue points from Mixed in Key. Lesson learned, that doesn’t happen again. Playing an entire track, not while playing live in a club or event setting, lol. I’m very interested in seeing differences in ways to do things. If we aren’t learning, there’s no point. Thanks for sharing this Terry!
Great video. Good to know Cleveland sets CP's the same way I do. Now if we could just talk Serato devs into displaying the cue point name in the wave form as it approaches!
Clear and fun explanation to learn from you. Great teacher. This was fun to learn. Thanks brother. Wish you the best. Ima subb. Take care and see you on youtube.
Thank you for info. You always provide real content. I have a question what are you running Serato pro on? Thank you. Btw.. Never heard of the song sweet talk it’s fire
Since day 1 i started DJing ive had all my tracks hot cue’d from 1-4, and this was when only 3 hot cue buttons were appearing on dj controllers like the numark mixtrack and vestax controllers. It makes djing so much faster and fluid for me
I like how Rekordbox has hot cues + memory cues. I use the memory cues as labels for the mixout points or other points of interest and the hot cues for jumpcuts only.
Awesome video CT. This just validated what I have been doing. I thought I have been cheating by doing this. I also use different colors to identify 4 or 8 bar intro and also my mix out points
I’ve only been doing this a couple months. I had a cue point system then came up with something better and sure I will again. Frustrating because I have to go back through all my tracks but the better prepared in the beginning the less time wasted later when you find a system that works.
I spent like an hour last night figuring out how I wanted my cue points. Then like 2 1/2 finally starting to seriously work on setting them. I woke up today and my brain told me it didn't like the method I came up with at all, and to re do the shits. So I spent about half an hour coming up with a new template, but before I wasted another 2 1/2 hours redoing the ones I just made last night. I thought I'd look up a few YT videos for ideas. If left to my own devices, I'm sure I would have gotten the cue points to something I actually liked. But it would have probably taken me like a dozen 2.5 hour sessions lol.
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Great video tutorial. I don't think you mentioned the fact that you can also "Color Code" cue points. Along with naming them, I also use colors because they are highly visible without looking at my laptop. For me, Green is the start of the beat on the 1, Blue= Breaks, Bridge, & Choruses, Red is an Intro without a beat, Purple are versus, and Yellow is caution which means Mix-Out point. As you said everybody has their own system, but the colors are there so I take advantage.
I do it quite differently, like Cleveland says, there no right or wrong way, just do it how it feels natural to you. I don't use labels as I rarely look at the screen at all, only for track selection, key and BPM. BTW I use RB, I don't know if you can change the colours of the LEDs in serato. I also have a Pioneer XP1, so I have a lot of cue points to play with GREEN The start of the track and vocals BLUE Down beat or cool down ORANGE Starting to warm up RED Hot or when the song is peaking in energy MAGENTA only a few tracks have this, but is absolutely banging! Peak energy. The only problem with this method is it's time consuming. You need to listen to the whole track carefully, go backwards and forwards, hitting cue points, then assigning a colour. Each track, assuming a track is 4 minutes long, can take nearly 10 minutes to work through. But of course, once it's done, it's done forever! Now you can get the phrasing right, you can also jump around the track to your hearts content, phrase to phrase and keeping the energy high. dj-daz.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10
yeah my main 2 cue points are usually when song starts (beat part), and cue 3 is often always once vocals kick in so I can see where they start up. I like mixing in the beat before vocals. Often I'll set som emix out points that'll auto reloop if they work. in virtual dj you can create cue actions like "reloop 16" that'll just place the beat in a loop automatically without pressing anything.
Where can I get that hat? Mix out points/safety out points is a very good idea. When I first bought my original ddjsx 4 chan 6 years ago I set those cues when I was learning how to dj on my own.
I use the term “fill” to describe drum fills, tags or vocals that drop before the 1...also I put a number on the start Of the mix out point cue...be it 4, 8 or sometimes 16 for house so I know where to start the mix and how long I have before I want to completely kill sound on outgoing travk
I like the idea of 2 mix out points. In general, I find there are cue points (1) for jumping to cool phrases, (2) looping, and (3) points where to start a track and mix out from. At least that’s my take thus far as a newbie DJ (but trained musician).
Hello, Please help me!! I am having trouble seeing the one line on my screen...the line where I can line up my track for better cue points...help me PLEASE!!!! I am basically NEW to using Serato Dj Pro
???... I have version 1.9.2 Serato.Do I need to up grade to 2.4.3 pro.& if I do will my files transfer to it once downlo.When done delet old version right.
