Quick Start Guide

This guide will get you up and running with basic DJ skills as quickly as possible.

For The Best Results

To get the most from this introduction please have the following essential DJ items ready to go.

YOUR MUSIC YOUR SPEAKERS

To load your tracks they need to be in WAV You need a mini stereo 1/8” plug to for the line out
(16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo) or MP3 (maximum 320- plug on the GO-DJ™. Connect this cable to any
kbps 44.1 kHz stereo) format, and they need to be powered monitors (speakers that have internal
on a PC or Mac. amplification.) Computer speakers are fine. Or
you can plug the GO-DJ™ into an “AUX IN” on a
YOUR HEADPHONES component set-up.
You need headphones and with a headphone cable
that has a mini stereo 1/8” plug.

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 Important User Interface Information

Swipe Once Start Here Swipe Once

Swipe Again Swipe Again Swipe Again

ABOUT THE TOUCH SCREENS

When you turn on the GO-DJ™, you will see a just touch the small arrows in the two bottom
Digital Turntable on each screen. You can swipe corners of each screen. If you see an arrow in only
left and right at the bottom of each screen (start one of the bottom corners, that’s because you’re
swiping from where it says “Monster”) to get to at the left most or right most screen.
other screens. If you prefer not to swipe, you can

ABOUT THE FUNCTION KNOBS

There are three ways to manipulate these buttons:
• Turn
• Press and Release
• Press and Turn
The knobs are actually continuous controllers
that can be turned endlessly. They can also be
clicked like buttons. This does things like enable /
disable effects, select folders, and other functions
depending on the context (i.e. which touch screen
is being displayed). You can also turn them while
holding them down, which also does a variety of
things depending on the context.

For more info Please check the manual for a detailed description
of all of the functions of each controller.

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 STEP 1 Turn it On

Hold down the power button (on the right side of

the unit) for about one second. Unit will power on.

STEP 2 Load Your Music

CONNECT THE USB CABLE COPY YOUR MUSIC TO THE GO-DJ™

With the GO-DJ™ powered on, connect it to a USB Copy your music into the drive named GO-DJ™
port on your computer using the supplied cable. DRIVE. You can create a folder structure within the
(The cable is mini USB to standard USB) While drive that helps you organize your music. Ignore the
plugged in the GO-DJ battery is charging. other drives for now.

One of the other drives that appears is used to store recordings

ENTER USB STORAGE MODE of your mixes. Another contains a copy of the owner’s manual in
Swipe all the way to the Options screen, which is PDF form.
the farthest screen to the right, four screens away
from the Digital Turntables. You should see a screen DISCONNECT THE GO-DJ™
with five tabs at the top of it. Click on the SYSTEM Safely eject the GO_DJ™ drives from your computer.
tab on the right. One of the controls on the screen Please eject all visible GO-DJ™ drives and when
will be labeled “USB Storage Mode”. Slide that to finished press the “Cancel” button on either screen
the right and a dialog box will appear. Click “OK”. of the GO-DJ™ A dialog box will appear. Press “OK”
You will see a message saying “Connected” on in the dialog box. The GO-DJ™ will reboot.
the GO-DJ™. Meanwhile, on your computer, three
removable drives will have appeared along with
your other drives.

STEP 3 Hook It Up

SPEAKERS
Connect your speakers to the mini stereo 1/8" If you don’t have speakers, you can also connect
(3.5mm) LINE OUT jack on the back of the GO-DJ. your headphones to the LINE OUT jack on the back,
but you’ll be missing out.
HEADPHONES
Connect your headphones to the mini stereo 1/8"
PHONES jack on the front.

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 STEP 4 Load Two Tracks

On the left touch screen (TRACK A), swipe left The first time the GO-DJ™ sees a new track, it
to the File Browser screen. Navigate to the folder automatically analyzes it to determine the tempo. If
named “GO-DJ™ Drive”. You can either double- you have just loaded up your GO-DJ™ with a bunch
tap on the folder on the touch screen, or rotate the of tracks, you might encounter a little latency at this
“FUNCTION A” controller and then press it when point while the tempo mapping takes place. This
the folder is highlighted. In this way, navigate to one only happens once for each new track you load.
of the audio files that you loaded into the GO-DJ™.
Load a track into the right channel (TRACK B) in
Double-tap it on the screen or highlight and click it
the same way.
using the “FUNCTION A” controller. You will then
see a dialog box: click “Load”. For More Info There’s a way to set up the headphone jack so that
it has the same output as the main mix. Please check the manual.

STEP 5 Make Some Noise

Press the left Play/Pause button. You should

hear TRACK A in your speakers. You can listen
on your headphones as well. To change the
overall headphone volume, press and turn the
VOLUME-B controller.

TROUBLESHOOTING
If you don’t hear anything, here’s what to do:
Turn up the VOLUME A controller. (The ring of LEDs Rotate the FX SELECT controller clockwise until
around it will be completely lit up in blue when the last LED around it is lit up in green Then rotate
the volume is at maximum.) Also check that the the FX LEVEL controller (which is now acting as the
cross-fader isn’t all the way over to the other side… master volume) clockwise to increase the Master
the side you are not playing. If you still can’t hear Volume level.
anything, check the master volume as follows:

STEP 6 Cue a Track in Your Headphones

Notice the light blue headphone icon, You will notice that the right side of the
beside the battery level indicator in headphone icon dims (turns dark gray),
the top right corner of the left screen. and that you can now hear the track only
While keeping an eye on it, press the VOLUME-A in your left ear.
controller.
When you press this controller again,
In this way, you can independently route either the left side dims, the right side turns
track to one or both ears of your headphones. If back to light blue, and the track can be
you’re not sure what to do, may we suggest you set heard only in your right ear.
up “split cueing”: route TRACK A to your left ear (by
Press the VOLUME-A controller again and the
pressing the VOLUME-A encoder), and TRACK B to
track is not routed to your headphones at all.
your right ear.
Finally, press the controller once more and the
track is routed to both ears again 4

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 STEP 7 Your First Mix

Slide the cross-fader all the way over to the left TRACK B in your right ear but not through your
so that only TRACK A is playing on your speakers. speakers. (You might want to uncover your left ear
Then press Play to start TRACK B. You should hear so you can hear the main mix out of the speakers.)

STEP 8 Beatmatching

AUTOMATIC BEATMATCHING With TRACK B still playing, rotate the FUNCTION-B

If manual beatmatching is more than you want to controller and watch what happens to the labels
do when you’re starting out, set the AUTO SYNC beside the Digital Turntable.
slider on the TRACK B screen to ON and skip to the
Rotate this controller to highlight the CUE CLEAR
next step.
label at the top. You will notice that the appearance
of the Digital Turntable changes. It should have
MANUAL BEATMATCHING
“+” (plus) and “-” (minus) signs in the middle. The
Make sure that the AUTO SYNC slider on the
Digital Turntable is now in Pitch Bend mode. Touch
TRACK B screen is set to OFF. The pitch control is
and hold the top half of the turntable again.
the vertical slider along the outer vertical edge of
each screen. Slide the TRACK B pitch control up or The track will play more slowly as long as you’re
down to match the tempo (BPM) of TRACK A. holding your finger down. This is how you nudge
the track backward. Touch and hold the bottom
Play with the Digital Turntable a little. Note that
half of the turntable to speed the track up and
if you touch it with your finger, the track stops
nudge it forward.
completely. You can scratch it too, but this mode
is not precise enough for beatmatching, so let’s The area to the side of each Digital Turntable with all of the
change to Pitch Bend mode. labels is known as the “Arc Selector.” The other settings enable a
variety of functions, such as looping and marking cue points. The
behaviour of the Digital Turntable is different depending on the
position of the Arc Selector.

STEP 9 Use the EQ

From the Digital Turntables, swipe once to the right controller. Note the round link button next to each
to access the 3-band EQ. You can use your finger fader. Press it once to enable it, and again to disable
to move them up and down. The screen is multi- it. If enabled, the fader moves when you turn the
touch, so you can even move two or three faders FUNCTION-B controller. In this way you can move
independently at the same time. The EQ for TRACK one, two, or all three faders just by turning one knob.
B can also be controlled using the FUNCTION-B

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