Denon Mc4000

Denon MC4000

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The MC4000 is a 2-deck Serato DJ controller for the professional entertainer wrapping in-demand audio manipulation tools in a robust steel chassis for rugged durability. In addition to precision touch-activated jog wheels, performers get access to dedicated hot cue and sample pads for on-the-fly creativity.

Mapping

1. Channel Level: Turn this knob to adjust the level of the pre-fader, pre-EQ audio signal for the channel.

2. Channel EQ: Turn these knobs to boost or cut the high, mid-range, and low frequencies for the channel.

3. Channel Filter: Turn this knob to adjust the filter applied to the channel. Turn the knob counterclockwise to apply a low-pass filter. Turn the knob clockwise to apply a high-pass filter.

4. Channel Cue: Press this button to send the channel’s pre-fader signal to the headphones’ cue channel.

5. Channel Fader: Use this fader to adjust the channel’s volume level.

6. Crossfader: Use this crossfader to mix between the two decks.

7. Shift: Press and hold this button to access secondary functions of other controls.

8. Sync / Sync Off: Press this button to automatically match the corresponding Deck’s tempo with the opposite Deck’s tempo and phase. Unlike Serato, Shift + sync is not mapped to anything.

9. Cue / Track Start: During playback, press this button to return the track to a temporary cue point. If you have not set a temporary cue point, then press this button to return to the start of the track. (To set a temporary cue point, make sure the track is paused, move the platter to place the audio playhead at the desired location, and then press this button.).

If the deck is paused, press and hold this button to play the track from the temporary cue point. Release the button to return the track to the temporary cue point and pause it. To continue playback without returning to the temporary cue point, press and hold this button and then press and hold the Play button, and then release both buttons.

Press and hold Shift and then press this button to return to the start of the track.

10. Play/Pause / Stutter: This button pauses or resumes playback. Press and hold Shift and then press this button to “stutter-play” the track from the last set cue point.

11. Hot Cues: Press any of these 4 pads to set and jump to a hot cue point. To set a hot cue point, press an unlit pad at the desired location in the track (the pad will then be lit). To jump to that hot cue point, press the lit pad. To delete a hot cue point, press and hold Shift and then press a lit pad.

12. Pad Mode: Currently unmapped

13. Platter: This capacitive, touch-sensitive platter controls the audio playhead when the wheel is touched and moved. When the Vinyl button is on, move the platter to “scratch” the track as you would with a vinyl record. When the Vinyl button is off (or if you are touching only the side of the platter), move the platter to temporarily adjust the track’s speed.

While editing a loop, move the platter to adjust the Loop In or Loop Out point. Press and hold Shift and then move the platter to move quickly through the track.

14. Vinyl / Censor: Press this button activate/deactivate a “vinyl mode” for the platter. When activated, you can use the platter to “scratch” the track as you would with a vinyl record.

Press and hold Shift and then press and hold this button to activate the Censor feature: the playback of the track will be reversed, but when you release the button, normal playback will resume from where it would have been if you had never engaged the Censor feature (i.e., as if the track had been playing forward the whole time).

15. Key Lock / Range: Press this button to activate/deactivate Key Lock. When Key Lock is activated, the track’s key will remain the same even if you adjust its speed.

Press and hold Shift and then press this button to cycle through the available ranges of the pitch fader. Note: currently hard coded to +/- 8, 16, 50%

16. Pitch Bend -/+ : Press and hold one of these buttons to momentarily reduce or increase (respectively) the speed of the track.

Press and hold Shift and then press and hold one of these buttons to rewind or fast-forward (respectively) through the track.

17. Pitch Fader: Move this fader to adjust the speed (pitch) of the track. You can adjust its total range with the Key Lock / Range button.

18. FX Level: Turn this knob to adjust the level of the corresponding effect. The FX On button under the knob must be lit for this knob to function. Press and hold Shift and then turn this knob to scroll through the list of effects. Note: FX3 is currently unmapped.

19. FX Beats: currently unmapped

20. FX On / Select: Press this button to turn the corresponding effect on or off.

Press and hold Shift and then press this button to select an effect in the software. Note: FX3 is currently unmapped.

21. FX Tap: Tap this button repeatedly at the desired tempo to set the rate of the effects’ lowfrequency oscillators (LFOs). Press and hold this button to reset Beat Multiplier to the Deck’s BPM. (currently not functional)

22. Auto-Loop / Auto 4: Press this button to toggle a 4 beat loop on or off. Press and hold Shift and then press this button to toggle beat quantize on or off (I.e quantization of loop start / end points to the nearest beat). Note: this behavior is different from Serato.

23. X 1/2 Loop / Loop In: Press this button to halve the length of the current loop.

Press and hold Shift and then press this button to create a Loop In point at the current location.

24. X 2 Loop / Loop Out: Press this button to double the length of the current loop.

Press and hold Shift and then press this button to create a Loop Out point at the current location.

25. Reloop: Press this button to exit the current loop if in loop mode, or skip to the last-played loop and activate it immediately if playing.

26. Browse / Library Knob: Turn this knob to navigate through the software.

Press the knob to select an item. Press and hold Shift and then turn this knob to browse quickly through the tracks in your library.

27. Load: Press this button to load the currently selected track to the deck.

28. Back / Panel: Press this button to toggle maximized library (Different from Serato mapping).

29. Load Prep / Open Prep: Press this button to load the currently selected track to the preview deck.

Press and hold Shift and then press this button to eject the current track from the preview deck. (Different from Serato mapping).

30. Sampler Pads: Press these pads to play their corresponding samples in the software’s sampler (1–4).

Press and hold Shift and then press a pad to stop its sample playback.

31. Sample Level: Turn this knob to adjust the volume level of the software’s sampler.

32. Level Meters: These LEDs display the audio signal depending on the state of each deck and Channel Fader. The meters are not affected by the position of the Master Knob.

If a Channel Fader is at its minimum position, the meter will show the deck’s pre-fader level. The left meter represents Deck 1, and the right meter represents Deck 2. If a Channel Fader is higher than its minimum position, both meters will show the summed, post-fader output of the playing deck(s). Press the Cue button on a deck to split the meters between a cued deck (Channel Fader at its minimum position) and a playing deck (Channel Fader higher than its minimum position). The LEDs for the Cue deck will change only if audio is playing. Otherwise, it will continue showing the summed, post-fader output of the playing deck.

33. Mic Volume: Hardware only

34. Mic Echo: Hardware only

35. Mic Talk Over / Post: Hardware only

36. Master: Hardware only

37. Booth: Hardware only

38. Aux: Hardware only