PLAY: Plays-Pauses the track. If SHIFT is pressed it plays the track in Stutter.
CUE: If the track is playing, pauses and goes to the last cue point. If the track is paused, Sets the current position as cue point, and previews the cue as long as the button is pressed. If SHIFT is pressed, it jumps to the beginning of the track.
JOG: Touch sensitive platter for Scratch , bend, seek or Effect parameter control. Use the touch (top) area of the Jog to Scratch the track and the outer part to bend (temporary speed up/down). The Jog can operate also only in Bend mode if the VINYL mode is disabled from the VirtualDJ GUI. Hold SHIFT down and then use the Jog to fast search through the track.
The Jog can also control the Filter, Key and the Effect parameters of the triggered Effects. See 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19.
SYNC: Syncs the deck with the Master Deck (will match BPM value and Beatgrid if tracks are playing). Hold SHIFT down and then press this button to manually set a deck as Master Deck (all other decks will sync to the Master Deck), or allow VirtualDJ to automatically select the Master Deck, depending on the Output status of each deck (which deck is playing to the Master Out)
PITCH: Adjusts the tempo of the track. A different pitch range can be selected from the VirtualDJ GUI.
AUTOLOOP. Use this encoder to half (anti-clockwise) or double (clock-wise) the size of the Loop. Push the encoder to trigger the selected Loop.
Hold SHIFT down and then use this encoder to fine move the Beatgrid of the track forward or backwards (in case it is incorrectly calculated by VirtualDJ). Hold SHIFT down and then push this encoder to set a Loop In (Entry) point. Push again to set the Loop Out (Exit) point and trigger a manual loop. Push for a 3rd time to exit the loop.
CTRLA. Press this button and then use the Jog to adjust the Key of the track. Press the same button again to stop the Key control and reset the Key of the track to its original value. While the Key control is enabled, the illumination of the Jog will offer cold/warm speeding colors, depending on the value of the applied key value.
FX1: Press this button to activate the selected effect of slot 1. Hold SHIFT and then press this button to select the next available Effect from the list for Effect slot 1. If the Effect is enabled, use the Jog to control the 1st parameter of the selected Effect. Hold SHIFT down and then use the Jog to control the 2nd parameter of the selected Effect. While the Effect is active, the illumination of the Jog will change to red and the speed of the rotation will depend on the Effect parameter value.
FX2: Press this button to activate the selected effect of slot 2. Hold SHIFT and then press this button to select the next available Effect from the list for Effect slot 2 If the Effect is enabled, use the Jog to control the 1st parameter of the selected Effect. Hold SHIFT down and then use the Jog to control the 2nd parameter of the selected Effect. While the Effect is active, the illumination of the Jog will change to green and the speed of the rotation will depend on the Effect parameter value.
FX3: Press this button to activate the selected effect of slot 3. Hold SHIFT and then press this button to select the next available Effect from the list for Effect slot 3 If the Effect is enabled, use the Jog to control the 1st parameter of the selected Effect. Hold SHIFT down and then use the Jog to control the 2nd parameter of the selected Effect. While the Effect is active, the illumination of the Jog will change to blue and the speed of the rotation will depend on the Effect parameter value.
CTRLB. Press this button and then use the Jog to apply a Low/High Pass Filter to the track. Press the same button again to stop the Filter control and reset the Filter to the zero (off) position While the Filter control is enabled, the illumination of the Jog will offer cold/warm speeding colors, depending on the value of the applied Filter.
DECK SELECT. Use this button to select the assigned deck for the left and the right side of the DDJ-WeGO. When the left DECK button is lit, deck 3 will be controlled from the left side of the DDJ-WeGO and when the led is off, deck 1 will be controlled by the left side of the DDJ-WeGO. When the right DECK button is lit, deck 4 will be controlled from the right side of the DDJ-WeGO and when the led is off, deck 2 will be controlled by the right side of the DDJ-WeGO.
Sampler MODE. Use this button to toggle between the Sampler and the HotCue mode for the HotCue/Sampler buttons (22). The led if this button will be lit if the Sampler mode is selected.
HOTCUE/SAMPLES (1-4). The 4 numbered buttons offer different functionality depending on the selected mode (21).
In HotCue mode, each one of the 4 buttons assigns Hot Cue Point (1 to 4) or returns the track to that Hot Cue Point if the HotCue is assigned. When a Hot Cue Button is unlit, you can assign a Hot Cue Point by pressing it at the desired point in your track. Hold SHIFT down and then press a button to delete its assigned Hot Cue Point.
In Sampler mode, each one of the 4 buttons triggers a Sample from the selected Sampler Bank of VirtualDJ. If the selected bank has less than 5 samples, both sides of the DDJ-WeGO will control the same samples. If the selected Sampler bank has more than 4 samples, the left side of the DDJ-WeGO will control samples 1 to 4 and the right side will control samples 5 to 8. The trigger/playing behavior depends on the selected Trigger mode of the Bank (On/Off, Hold, Stutter or Unmute) and can be changed from the VirtualDJ Browser in the Sampler view of the Side View. Hold SHIFT down and then use the same buttons to stop the sample (useful if the selected trigger mode is Stutter or Unmute).
