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In a nutshell, Serato Play lets you DJ using just your laptop by giving you a mixer interface, keyboard hotkeys, and DJ splitter cable compatibility. If the Practice Mode is not enough, there’s a brand new fully-featured expansion pack that comes with Serato DJ Pro 2.1 and Serato DJ Lite 1.1 called Serato Play that aims to take your laptop DJ mixing experience to a whole new level. So, if you were considering Serato but was put off by this lacking feature, fear no more! This brings Serato on par with Traktor for hardware-less use. Obviously, it won’t do for proper DJ performances and we won’t be seeing the death of the controller anytime soon but it’s an awesome tool and it works well. We can’t stress how useful this is. If you want to run through your routine or test transitions with just the software then you’re good to go. If you were traveling, just lounging around or wanted to mix anytime when you didn’t have your controller, you’d be screwed! It’s absolutely perfect for those (and there were many) who were frustrated about Serato being virtually useless for anything other than making playlists when there was no hardware connected. In past versions, it was only possible to use Serato in this mode with a controller. Now, let’s take a closer look at this highly demanded functionality and see what are the other new implementations and enhancements that you get with the latest iteration of Serato DJ including the Serato Play expansion pack. All you need is your laptop and the software.
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#SERATO DJ CONTROLLER FULL#
In Practice Mode, you can mix with two decks, a crossfader, tempo faders, cues and of course, your full library of music.
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In 2018, Serato has received a series of welcome updates and topping the list of extra features is the ability to run the software with no controller! Namely ‘Practice Mode’, this finally allows DJs to mix offline without any hardware.