Using a Laptop in a DJ Setup

Video Transcript

"And I'm DJ Shy. Explaining to you about lap tops. Now once you have your Serado set you will want to get your Serado software and install in your laptop. Now once you install your software into your laptop an icon should pop up that looks like this. So what you would want to do is double click on it, it's going to pull up the screen right here. Now the laptop will enable you to import all your songs from the laptop on to the turntables. So I keep all my MP3's in my music folder. So my music folder, there's a scratch live folder where I dumped all my songs in, in my songs folder. Now from here I can select any song, any MP3 that I want and right now I want to select Fergie, she's one of my favorite artists. I'm going to pick this song and I want it to play on my left turntable, so I am going to drag the song over and there pops up Fergie, London Bridge. I'm going to put her instrumental version on the right side. So instrumental version of the song has just the instruments, no singing whatsoever. This is the actual song that has instruments and the singing. There's also another, some songs, some MP3's that have, that contain occopello only, that's occopello meaning that it's the song itself without the instrumentals. In this case, instrumental is going on the right turntable and the actual song is on the left. This is what a laptop is good for."