Novation Dicer Issue with SL3
Hi Guys, anyone else using Dicers with SL3? I bought a pair to go with my Serato but I cannot get them to work or respond at all. I’ve tried everything, plugged them in, fired up Serato and they light up but absolutely nothing happens when I press the dice. The only thing I can do is scroll through the 3 different modes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Wb.
they are natively mapped to ssl, are you saying you cant set cue points either? and youve tried the loop roll, and loop function as well with a track playing? are you plugging them in before or after you start ssl
Hi, thanks for the quick reply. I can set cue points manually within scratch but i haven’t tried to set them using the dicers. I plugged them in before I started ssl and neither looping or loop roll work either!
Sounds like a bad connection and your comp isn’t recognizing them. Not too uncommon. Try wiggling the plug at the Dicer around. You may need a new one.
i always plug my dicers in after i start serato, im not sure if that matters but always safe than sorry
Try setting some cue points with the dicers (red), if that works then the dicers ARE responding, you just have to analyze your tracks for loop roll and looping
i completely forgot about that, if you havent analyzed ur files, then the loop and loop roll function wont work
Thanks for the advice guys! I’ve tried everything. Plugged them in before & after I start SL3 etc . The dicer pads only seem to half light up. Certainly not as bright as I’ve seen in videos etc. I have a gig tonight so I will try again one last time then if it doesn’t work I’ll contact the supplier about a refund.
Ps files are all correctly analyzed.
Cheers, Mark.
Yeah, I can honestly say I’ve never run into that issue with my dicers. It sounds like the software isn’t recognizing the hardware correctly, meaning it’s most likely some form of a connection issue.
Are you plugging them into a USB hub perchance? That might cause issue, I don’t know.
Thanks for the advice fellas. I played about a bit more on Saturday night and got them to work. I’m using Serato with CDJ’s in Absolute Mode 
and it seems the dicers won’t work unless I switch to Relative. Is this the way it should be? I just think that ABS mode is much better for cueing the start of a track on the CDJ.
Regards, Mark.
you have to use REL mode to use the loops and loop roll effect… but if you go into setup in SSL,there is a setting to start at the beginning of the track when you load it to a deck. tbh if youre using cdjs this should be a breeze for ya
cant believe every one of us missed that..
tbh honest i dont see that he ever mentioned he was in ABS mode, and i seriously dont know alot of serato users that do use it as it limits the functionality of the software
Yes, cue points and looping in Scratch Live (and most other DVSs) only work in Relative (or Internal) mode.
Absolute has to follow the control signal position 1:1 always. So you can’t use cue points or loops/rolls in Absolute mode as this would break the “physics” of how/why Absolute mode works.
i mess with my buddies when they are playing at clubs and switch the deck to ABS when they are not looking.
thats brilliant… id love to pull that trick but all my mates use traktor with tha pioneer djs-1xr omega jog wheely button knob special edition thinga ma jig
I actually learned using ABS mode, because my buddy who uses Serato whom I initially learned from… uses it. I wasn’t doing anything fancy and didn’t think anything of it until I got my Dicers honestly.
You can set “Absolute Drop in Relative Mode” or something like that in your settings. Best of both worlds IMO anyhow, because usually that’s what I was using absolute mode for most of the time anyhow. Otherwise, it can be annoying restarting tracks or trying to quickly get to a different portion of a track if you don’t have cuepoints setup.
… and yeah, I can’t believe we all missed that.