its a feature. from what i read before though its (sp6) only supposed to activate when the shift/delete button is held

Okay yea I just found that in the manual. I do like being able to access the samples like that. Messed me up a bit because I couldn't delete the cue points but I guess I'll just have to play around with it a bit.

On the NS& I know you have to click a button in the SP-6 on screen GUI to activate hardware controls, which then simply operate after the Delete button has been pressed red. The Cue Buttons (1-3 on each side) then light up red if a bank has a cue, and can be triggered through pressing. You can get back to your cue points by hitting delete again, and then edit cue points by turning off the on-screen button. It works pretty well, I just wish for the ability to adjust the volume etc of samples as well through hardware control.

This was absolutely brilliant on serato's part. Thumbs up for the engineers that coded this feature. This absolutely is quality hardware and software product.

I haven't deejayed in years, I went on a hiatus from 1992-1997 exploring DAWs; my first experience was digital orchestrator by voyetra that came with a turtle beach sound card that had a kurzweil dsp sampling chip. I could never finish a production with it because of instability with windows; it was windows 3.1 or 98. Then I stumbled on to propellerheads rebirth which blew me away; as crappy as windows 98 was this program was bullet proof. When win 98se came out things got even better. Sonic foundry had sound forge and later acid pro; these three programs in my opinion changed the way music was going to be made forever; I was using an mpc 2000, cubase vst 3.6 with rebirth and the first creation of rewire that only worked with rebirth, I added emu sound modules, (planet phatt carnival orbit) and a midex 8 midi interface, switched to an mpc 2000xl, modded it with a zip drive thn a hard drive, switched to the mpc 4000 and the korg triton 61.

I was working at Sam ash and an artist that I respected came in with all his gear and traded it in; an 808, Juno etc... And. Was in shock; I asked him why and he said "reason"
When I sat down and saw this program demoed to me on the sales floor I was in shock.
It wasn't until reason 2.5/3.0 that I traded in my mpc 4000, triton, emu sound modules for reason, protools 6.9 le with the 002 and akais mpd 16. I also bought this rtas plugin for protools called Serato scratch studio edition. Again I lucked into a game changer. I also owned the pioneer djm 900 mixer ( I think that's what it was; I added the rotary knobs In Place of the faders) with two cdj 700's a kaoss pad and an ex 500. it was quite boring to DJ on those and I traded that stuff in too.

Serato discontinued scratch studio edition and came out with scratch live. What a disappointment. I disappeared once again in 2005 after remixing a song (liscyn "I can't change your mind" it's on iTunes track 2 Mendez club mix) ive kept my software updated; I now have pro tools 10 HD, logic pro, cockos reaper, reason 6.0 an akai mpd 32, axiom pro connected to a quad core i7 2.66 Hackintosh and an hp envy i7 2.2ghz beats edition with hundreds of plugins also have finl cut studio, final cut pro x and avid media composer.

In 2011 I was experimenting with traktor and then djay for the iPad 2, and Djay 4 on my hackintosh and was very very impressed. I was using my axiom pro to program traktor and I was blown awaya what could be done just pushing buttons and programming traktor to the sliders and knobs on the axiom. I realize I needed a controller but was taken back by the amount of controllers out there. A week ago I decided it was time to finally get a controller and after researching it came down to three choices, ns7fx, ddjs1 and the ns6. Ean gold and traktor s4 turned me off after watching q-Bert pop up at eans house and seeing ean defenseless against qbert I didn't even want to look at the s4 which I was very interested in because I love traktor; anyway I spent the day at guitar center and almost walked out with the ns7fx for 899.00(opn box). Amazing, moving platters, responsiveness and I said wow, itch is really nice as far as ease if use compared to traktor.
I tell u I'm always at the right place at the right time 899 for ns7fx!. They also had used technics 1200's mkII for 399 a piece. Anyway I'm a perfectionist and I hate blemishes on my gear, the mixer on ns7fx had terrible blemishes by the fader and I was torn between the ns7fx and ns6 because of being able to control 4 decks. So the ns6 came home; of course after price matching for 799.

No problems hooking up to my hackintosh. Two glaring issues; no level input meters and computer keyboard control for samples. This ns6 was about to go back. I realized I was using itch 2.01. I upgraded to 2.1 after reading the manual and reading the forums about holding the headphones button down for a second to see the input volume. The serato engineers saved this ns6 from going back.

I have seen this new controller that appeared that is going to be introduced at namm next week; if it works with scratch live and the ns6 doesn't; I'll return the ns6 until all the dust settles with itch, live; they should be one and the same. Im also a bit miffed about the ns6 being 44.1khz. That might be a deal breaker. We,ll see after namm....

Thank you. Couldn't figure it out and couldn't find the documentation on it either.