Serato has officially launched its latest library update, Serato DJ 4.0, following a successful public beta. Shaped by community feedback, this major update introduces a range of workflow, organizational, and UX enhancements. During the public beta period, Serato DJ users had the opportunity to explore the new library and share insights that were implemented into the final product release. With Serato DJ 4.0, the company continues its mission to empower DJs of all levels with tools that elevate creativity, performance, and musical expression.
Serato DJ 4.0 debuts a fresh set of features that deliver a smoother, more intuitive user experience. DJs can now seamlessly organise, filter, and apply colour to crates, add ratings to tracks, and more – creating a faster, more creative workflow designed by DJs, for DJs.
Key Serato DJ 4.0 Features include:
- Flexible Panel Layouts: The Prepare, History, and Browse panels can now be displayed horizontally or vertically alongside the Serato DJ library.
- Spotify Integration: Connect your Spotify Premium account to access and mix millions of tracks directly with Serato DJ 4.0.
- New “Slip Release” Feature*: Add a release time when using Slip to allow for more creative scratching.
- Crate Search*: A quick way to navigate your Crate list and find that Crate you were looking for!
- Track Rating: Rate your song using the new Track Rating feature, with the options to customise this column with an emoji of your choice.
- Crate Sort: Sort your Crates in the order that best suits you! Choose from Alphabetical, Date Created or Custom.
- Streaming Tracks in Crates: Streaming Tracks can now be added to your Serato DJ Crates. No more jumping between Crates and Playlists for that set you planned!
- Crate Info: Speed up the time it takes to prep your DJ set by instantly knowing how many Tracks, the total time and the size of a crate with the Crate Footer.
- Crate Color: Customise your Crates with colors from a right click color palette!
- Right Click Menu: Quickly access both new and familiar actions for Tracks and Crates from the new Right Click Menu for the Library.
- Show Track in Crates: Right click on a Track to see all Crates that particular Track is in.
- Favourite Crates: Create a shortcut to your most used Crates to the top of your Crate list for quick and easy access
- Analyze on Import: Enable this feature to automatically analyze BPM, Key and more when adding new Tracks to your library.
- Analyse with Hardware Connected: Analyse Tracks while your hardware is still connected. No need to unplug!
- Eject External Drives from the Files Panel: Ensure your Library is ejected safely and smoothly by ejecting your external drives from within the Files Panel.
- Improvements to Search All: Quickly search your whole Library for that track you’re looking for, without having to change Crate.
- Resizable Album Art View: Customise your columns with the new adjustable size Album Art view.
- Improved Files Relocate & Metadata Scanning: More accurately relocate your missing files.
* not included in Serato DJ Lite 4.0
The new Serato DJ 4.0 library was premiered at the brand’s latest community event – Playlist Retreat, a workshop for high-profile DJ talent hosted at the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff’s home in Delaware. Attendees received an in-depth walkthrough from Serato staff. As many of the updates stem directly from common user requests, attendees were excited to see their feedback reflected in the new library.
Two-time GRAMMY-nominated producer and DJ Scram Jones shared with Serato staff at Playlist Retreat that he is “excited that we’ll be able to search through the crates without having to get out of the crates. The organisation, the alphabetical, we’re always looking through random crates and it’s always a mission on the fly. I like the emojis you can put next to it to highlight it even more. The crate organisation is definitely going to be helpful, for sure.”
Quinnette, another Playlist Retreat attendee and long-time Serato DJ user shared “Infinite gratitude to the Serato family for listening to our feedback, I’m very excited about the search all feature and being able to search within the crate and then look for new searches that aren’t in that same crate, and then going back to that crate. Everything down to the t of what we usually have a need for, they really fixed it and I appreciate that.”
Download Serato DJ 4.0 Pro here. Learn more about the update at The Drop
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