Monster Go-DJ User's Guide

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 1 Monster® GO-DJ™ User Guide Version 1.60 Firmware 10817 14 November 2013

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 10 available. Beat Sequencer Screen Update Description Beat position following available The beat sequen

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 100 SYSTEM (2) Firmware Version Shows the currently installed firmware version. In SD/In Internal Drive

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 101 SYSTEM (3) You can check the storage capacity and the size of free space of each storage medium. If

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 102 Firmware Firmware Update You can update the firmware for the GO-DJ by following these directions: ●

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 103 Please note: In the case that the Recovery Menu Screen does not show up, please repeat the directions

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 104 © 2013 Monster Products Monster, The M Monster, GO-DJ and the GO-DJ logo are trademarks or registered

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 11 Hardware Specifications Sound Card Integrated (Built In) Battery (Internal Li-Polymer Battery) Ch

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 12 Sort by Track Name Sort by BPM Alphabetical Search Supported File Format MP3, WAV for playback WAV for

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 13 Drone Sample Pad x 8 Stock samples included Upload custom samples 4-Beat Step Sequencer Editable preset

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 14 WHAT’S IN THE BOX The Monster® GO-DJ™ Device Monster® GO-DJ™: Accessories • USB Connector Cable U

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Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 16 OVERVIEW Front of the Monster® GO-DJ™ a. Touch panel for Volume-A b. Touch panel for Volume-B R

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 17 e. USB Connector (MINI-B USB) f. LINE OUT g. LINE IN Back of the Monster® GO-DJ™ h. Reset Button Lo

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 18 BUTTONS Note: The round analog knobs can be operated by four methods: click, rotate, press and rotate

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 19 track level is indicated by the LED meter. Click to route the audio from Track-A to the headphones. Cli

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 2 Table of contents is made up of live links to topics within this manual. Unanalyzed Files: Monster® G

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 20 button is placed on the last option (ALL FX OFF), press, hold and turn the FX LEVEL knob to choose what

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 21 7 CROSSFADER Slide back and forth to adjust the balance between Volume-A and Volume-B. None

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 22 Beat LED Two Beat LED lights, located right above the crossfader, indicate the internal status of the

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Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 24 INFORMATION BAR Information Bar An information bar is located at the top of both screens. It display

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 25 headphones. Headphone Monitor Toggle No output to the headphones. Headphone Monitor Toggle Audio from

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 26 GETTING STARTED How to Turn On To turn on the Monster® GO-DJ™, press and hold the power button for one

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 27 Screen Modes ¨GO-DJ has two different screen modes. Minimum and Advanced. In minimum mode there ar

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 28 Available On Screen Information Advanced Mode The Monster® GO-DJ™ has six (6) screens in Advanced

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Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 3 How to Connect to a Sound System Volume Control Master Volume Track-A Volume Track-B Volume Headphone Vo

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 30 GETTING CONNECTED How to Connect to a Sound System Connect your Monster® GO-DJ™ to a sound system wit

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 31 Volume Control Control the sound levels by using the VOLUME-A button, FX LEVEL button and the VOLUME-

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 32 Headphone Volume To change the Headphone Volume, press down, hold and rotate the VOLUME-B button. The

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 33 2. Change volume by rotating FX LEVEL knob. Headphone Volume Press, hold and rotate VOLUME-B knob Trac

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 34 volume of the Musical Pads on TRACK-B. output to PHONES is affected. Beat Sequencer Volume 1. Navigate

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 35 HOW TO PREPARE MUSIC How to Load Files There are three (3) ways to load music into your Monster® GO-DJ™

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 36 You can store your music and audio files on an SD memory card. To use your SD memory card with your Mo

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 37 Automatic File Analysis When the Monster® GO-DJ™ recognizes new files, the Monster® GO-DJ™ will star

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 38 When you place your sample files in the corresponding folder, the uploaded file will be assigned to the

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 39 FILE BROWSER SCREEN How to Search Files The File Browser Screen is where you can select the sound sou

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 4 Sorting Playlists Playlist Edit Menu How to Clear All Playlists History Display of History How to Play F

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 40 The “GO-DJ Drive” directory is displayed with this icon. The “GO-DJ Drive” directory is located in th

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 41 You can change the method of sorting files by touching the tabs located at the top of the File Browser

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 42 Using the FUNCTION Knob: To select a file using the FUNCTION knob, rotate the FUNCTION knob to move t

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 43 Tap: You can touch (tap) the screen to select a file or directory. Double Tap: You can double tap t

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 44 the following: •If “Play Count” is selected in the Options Screen: The number of dots corresponds to t

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 45 ● “X” Times: This information displays the total play count of the track. This is only active when th

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 46 How to Load a Track with the Digital Turntables To load a file on the Digital Turntables, first select

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 47 Unanalyzed Files: When you load a file for the first time into the Monster® GO-DJ™, either through

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 48 the file type is unsupported, the “"Unsupported" message will be displayed instead of the “Lo

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 49 Playlists How to Create a New Playlist ● Navigate to the File Browser Screen. ● Select the “Playlist

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 5 Musical Pad Touchscreen Operation Analog Operation Loading and Assigning Samples Assigning Samples to Sp

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 50 How to Add and Remove Items from a Playlist You can add items to a playlist by following these direct

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 51 ● Confirm the selection by tapping “Yes” or press the FUNCTION knob. Otherwise, select “Cancel” to can

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 52 If the original file is not found, then the track name is displayed as “File Not Found” in the playlis

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 53 ● By Updated: By tapping the “By Updated” tab in the Playlist Selector window, the playlists will be

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 54 How to Clear All Playlists You can delete all the playlists at the same time by following these direc

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 55 History Note: In order to active and use the History function, the “Remember History” option has to be

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 56 ● Hot-cue icons and white dot icons (for play count or time passed) in the file selection screen ar

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 57 To delete the entire History, follow these directions: ● In the Media Selection screen, select the “

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 58 Reset Menu Analyzed data and/or parameters for selected track files can be reset by selecting a sto

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 59 ● If you execute the "Clear Play Count" command, the file markers, such as the white dot ico

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 6 Slip Mode for BREAK Sync Beat Sequencer to Music Delay FX Time CONTROL (4) Resume Last Session on Boot D

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 60 Dedicated Folders for Samples Located within the “GO-DJ Drive” directory, two directories labeled “Pad

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 61 Digital Turntables Screen How to Control Tracks In the Digital Turntable screen, you can control the p

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 62 ● Use the FUNCTION knob to select which hot-cue point that you want to assign the location to (CUE 1,

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 63 ● Press the FUNCTION knob to activate the loop function. Depending on what is selected on the Options

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 64 blinking) Tap (when white in color) Measure the BPM that the user will tap on the Digital Turntable. Ta

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 65 Pitch Bend Mode When the highlight bar in the Arc Selector is positioned over the Cue Clear command

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 66 Loop Adjust Mode When the highlight bar in the Arc Selector is positioned over any of the Loop

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 67 confirmed and registered. In the case that you rotate the FUNCTION knob before pressing down, the measu

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 68 When the highlight bar in the Arc Selector is positioned over any of the Cue commands (CUE 1, CUE 2, C

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 69 During Scratch mode or Loop mode, the external two radars continuously follow the rotation angle of th

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 7 Starting the Recovery Menu Firmware Recovery Menu

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 70 Tempo Controllers 1. Tempo Slider You can change the music tempo by touch and/or FUNCTION knob rotati

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 71 ● Blue: The track is being synchronized. ● Red: The track is being synchronized, but it is not ready

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 72 Equalizer Screen In the Equalizer screen, you can adjust the output levels of the 3 bands (i.e., low,

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 73 Analog Control Operation The Equalizer screen can be operated with the FUNCTION knob. Toggle buttons

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 74 Crossfader: The crossfader blends the sounds from the two tracks drawing the equalization curve. The

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 75 FUNCTION Knob: The FUNCTION knob controls the active sliders simultaneously, just as in the case of ord

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 76 Saving and Loading Gain Levels You can save and load gain value for each file by pressing the buttons

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 77 Samplers The GO-DJ comes with two types of samplers: musical pad sampler and a synthesizer keyboard sa

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 78 Analog Operation The samplers can be operated by the FUNCTION knob. Rotating the FUNCTION knob change

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 79 Assigning Samples to Specific Pads You can specify a pattern and position and assign a sample to each

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 8 INTRODUCTION About the User Manual This user manual is organized as follows: Chapters Section Title Des

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 80 The Synthesizer Keyboard is activated when the “Keys” option is selected at the bottom of the Musical

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 81 Adding Instruments to the Synthesizer Keyboard Dedicated folders that store sample files for the Synth

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 82 screen as the name of the instrument. The length of the name should be no more than 14 characters. ● U

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 83 In the Beat Sequencer screen, you can edit rhythmic patterns with samples on the beat grid. The vertica

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 84 Clear Clears the user-defined changes in beat patterns A through D. When activated, the stock beat patt

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 85 You can assign samples to the Beat Sequencer with the following steps: ● Connect the GO-DJ to a compu

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 86 External Inputs Intelligent Stream Technology Assign Audio from Line-In to the Digital Turntable You

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 87 When a stereo plug is inserted to the MIC jack, MIC can be selected as well. You can assign the microph

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 88 Please note: If you select "Line" from "Microphone type" on the DEVICE(1) tab in th

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 89 Options Screen You can change the optional settings in the Options screen. The Options screen is categ

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 9 FIRMWARE UPDATES Latest Features in Firmware Version r10817 File Browser Screen Update Description Playl

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 90  Pitch Bend Depth  Sets the depth of pitch bend. CONTROL (2) Volume Knob Sensitivity Adjusts the s

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 91 ● Reset: Resets the gain value to 0 dB. In the case that another value was saved before, the new value

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 92 CONTROL (3) Switch Loop Range Sets the operation to switch the loop range. Slip Mode for BREAK When t

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 93 CONTROL (4) Resume Last Session on Boot The files or any other audio source(s) loaded to the Digital T

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 94 Microphone Type Selects the type of device to connect to the MIC terminal. The options are as follows:

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 95 DEVICE (2) Backlight Brightness Changes backlight brightness. Backlight Off Timer Sets a time for bac

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 96 REC Tab The GO-DJ can record sound that is outputted to the LINE OUT (i.e., master mix). The file is

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 97 AutoDJ Tab The GO-DJ is equipped with the AutoDJ function. It plays music continuously without any ac

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 98 Transition Timing Selects when to start the mix and transition to the next song. Mix Style There are th

Monster® GO-DJ™ | Instruction Manual | Page 99 SYSTEM Tab System (1) Date/Time Sets date and time. USB Storage Mode When this is set to the ON posit