I use it to edit metadata, play albums on my living room hifi when I am not DJing, and to sync playlists onto my phone. I had to manually drag the files from each Apple playlist into each Engine version of the playlist, so they are not even live-updating, which is a problem for my approach to keeping my library organised for DJing purposes.Īpple Music isn’t perfect but I like it for what it does well. When I tried to import my Apple Music library to Engine DJ it brought in the Apple playlists but they’re all empty shells. I do all my organising in Apple Music and then it’s all just there ready to go in Serato. That’s how I keep a handle on such a large library. I’ve used it for a long time and have made over 200 smart playlists for categories like record labels etc. I use Apple Music (iTunes) to organise my very large library, (which I’m always adding to). I’ll play around with it some more and see if I warm up to it but I think I’ll probably flog it off and take a small loss on it and stick with using a controller for digital DJing and a separate analogue setup I guess I just needed to get my hands on the SC6000 to figure this stuff out. Through the phono inputs, most records peak at 0db at about “5”, so there is massive headroom, but the SC6000 running into the line inputs peaks as low as -5db when turned up 100% to 10. Each channel goes to “10” and unity gain is at “7”. You simply turn up the rotary pot on the channel you’re playing and that’s it. It’s a high-end mixer (Varia Instruments RDM20) but it’s simple and elementary with no bells or whistles. The SC6000’s line output is really low and the analogue mixer that I want to use it with doesn’t have channel gains. And the Engine desktop software doesn’t respond to tap-clicks from the Wacom stylus I use with my computer which is really annoying (I can only use a mouse, which I find uncomfortable for repetitive and precise tasks). That’s relatively easily and painlessly done on the controller I have, with dedicated grid editing hardware buttons, but it’s a cumbersome process on the SC6000, opening the grid editor with the touch screen. But I have a huge collection (tens of thousands of tracks) and prefer to experiment, and make adjustments to beat grids (if necessary) as I am cueing up. It’s probably good for performances and routines where a DJ has a carefully curated collection. I was actually intending on using Engine OS and mixing through my analogue mixer but I quickly realised Engine OS probably doesn’t suit my approach to DJing as well as having a laptop interface.
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