To some it’s esoteric at best, but to others it’s a great beat creating / mash-up tool. Slicerįew entry to mid-level Serato DJ controllers have the Slicer function built in. Using Shift lets you toggle and select effects by pressing the appropriate pad. You can set Multi-FX (three FX “ganged” in two effects engines) and you can half or double the FX cycle to the beat, just like in a “normal” four-knob / button Serato FX section on a DJ controller, or you can take more control over a single effect per engine in Single-FX mode, where up to three parameters per effect become available to you – again, standard stuff but well implemented.
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Pad FXĪnother powerful function, Pad FX take full advantage of the velocity sensitivity of the pads by sensing how hard you’re pressing and using that as the equivalent of turning a depth or parameter knob in a normal FX section. It’s possible to slot two of these together using the supplied hot link cable, although you’d have to be a true power user to want to do that one should be enough for most use cases.
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Maybe they’ll be engaged in a future software update, or maybe Reloop is just hedging its bets, but I could find no use for those LEDs at all. One curiosity is that Serato has six samples in four banks, or 24 samples per slot, but there are eight pads, all of which have the sampler mode LEDs underneath them, making the seventh and eighth redundant as far as I can tell. Touching an “empty” slot loads the current track or sample into that slot in the first place. With SmartSync activated in the software, holding the Sync button and a pad activates sample player sync for that sample slot. This is its big selling point in the marketing blurb, and quite rightly: The Neon has got velocity-sensitive pads (this behaviour can be turned on and off if all you’re using the SP-6 sample player simply for triggering samples), and easy switching of both sample bank and output channel / overall volume / per-sample volume.īy holding the Mode button and touching a sample pad you switch its mode between one shot, toggle and hold, and holding the Repeat button and touching a pad loops that sample. So let’s take a closer look at the functions. There’s a Shift button here for engaging the secondary functions present on most of the other buttons, and a Sync button for sample player sync duties.īeing an official Serato accessory, you’d expect the set-up procedure to involve nothing more than simply plugging it in, and that’s how it transpires: USB this to your laptop (it won’t put Serato into “online” mode on its own you still need a licensed controller plugged in too) and everything “just works”. Down the left-hand side are four buttons variously used for sampler output channel, deck load and sample bank selection as well as to control the new Serato Flip functions, and down the right-hand side are some more conventional controls that nonetheless don’t appear on many controllers, such as DVS mode selector (internal/relative), a Censor button and a Slip Mode button.
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There is a track load/sampler volume knob top left and a loop size / set / shift / roll knob top right (both are stepped rotary push-to-click encoders), the four performance mode selection buttons being above the pads as you’d expect. It might be compact, but the pads are generously sized and feel great, and the other controls have plenty of room around the edges too. That means no squinting at the screen to work out if the playing sample is one-shot, looping, synced etc all the info is right at your fingertips.Ĭombined with the velocity sensitivity of those RGB pads and you have a pretty powerful sample-based percussion instrument right there for starters, and definitely the most complete SP-6 player I’ve seen so far. The first thing you notice that’s different compared to any drumpads on Serato controllers I’ve ever seen, though, is that the state indicators for the Serato SP-6 sample player are present and correct right next to each pad. (Reloop also has a stand available, but we didn’t get one of those for review this time around.)
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It’s made out of two screwed-together plastic sections and feels perfectly well constructed, with a pleasing taper towards the base and four rubber feet to hold it steady. Looking for all the world like somebody’s taken a saw to a big, modern digital DJ controller and neatly cut off the eight drumpads, it is compact but not fiddly, the pads being plenty big enough and the other buttons and knobs arranged in enough space around them. The Reloop Neon is certainly a cute little controller.