Essential Serato Shortcuts for Scratching

Keep these under your fingers while you practice. Controller mappings vary - these are the default keyboard shortcuts.

Deck control

• Space - play / pause
• W / S - nudge pitch up / down (bend)
• Q / A - pitch down / up
• R - reverse playback direction

Cue points

• 1 through 5 - jump to hot cue 1-5 on the left deck
• 6 through 0 - jump to hot cue 1-5 on the right deck
• Ctrl + cue key - delete the hot cue

Loops

• [ / ] - halve / double loop length
• L - loop on / off

The ones that save your set

• Shift + left/right arrow - fast search through the track
• F - instant doubles (copies the playing track to the other deck)

Learn instant doubles first. It is the scratch DJ safety net.