Set and save loops in Engine DJ.

Click the Loops tab in the virtual deck area to open the loop controls. Set a manual loop with Loop In and Loop Out, or click one of the Auto Loop lengths, which run from 1/32 to 32 bars. While an Auto Loop is active, a save button appears where the loop lock button normally sits and drops the loop into the next free slot. Serato holds 8 loops per track, saved to the file itself. Full walkthrough: set and save loops in Serato. A loop saved in Engine DJ lives inside the track; to cut the same section out as its own file, the audio looper exports it.

Set the loop first, with [IN] and [OUT] in the function panel or with the Auto Beat Loop button. Then, during the loop play or shortly after you cancel it, click [MEMORY] in the function panel. The saved loop point appears in the [MEMORY] panel, and one track holds up to 10 saved points in total, cue points included. Step by step: set and save loops in Rekordbox.

Load the track, then click the Auto Beat Loop button for a loop of a set beat length: rekordbox goes from 1/64 up to 512 beats, worked out from the track BPM. To place the points yourself, click [IN] where the loop should start and [OUT] where it should end. [EXIT] leaves the loop, [RELOOP] jumps back in. In the [1 PLAYER] layout you can also choose Export Loop As Wav to keep the looped section as a WAV file.

In the Pro layout, click the View Selection button inside the LOOP toggle and pick Saved Loops. The panel lists whatever the loaded track already has, and clicking the play button on an empty slot creates a loop at the default size, four beats unless you change loopDefault in settings, and stores it there. The X deletes a saved loop. You can also create, edit and delete them in the POI Editor.

The shape is the same on most gear: build the loop with the controller's loop section, then store it on a pad. On Engine OS hardware the saved loops for the loaded track sit on the performance pads in Loop mode, ready to trigger. To promote one to an Active Loop, hold the left parameter button and press its saved loop pad. That needs physical parameter buttons, so not every model can do it. Check your controller's own manual for the loop controls.

Two things explain most cases. The pads have to be in Loop mode: click the Loop icon, because the Hot Cue icon puts the same eight pads on cues instead. And the slot has to be empty, which is easy to miss once all eight are used. Right-click a populated pad and choose Clear, or hold Shift and left-click it, to free one up. If the loop keeps landing off the beat, check Cue/Loop Quantization in Preferences.

Yes, once you export with Sync Manager or drag the playlist onto the drive. Engine DJ writes its own database onto the USB drive, and that database carries loop points alongside playlists, cue points, hot cue points, beat grids and waveform data. Format the drive exFAT for best performance, FAT32 is also supported, and leave around 500 MB free for the database. More: export your library to USB in Engine DJ.

No. Loop points are performance data that Engine DJ writes to the track, and Vibes has no decks and no loop controls. Vibes handles the prep instead: it analyzes BPM, key, energy and track sections, tags tracks into vibes, and exports playlists back to Engine DJ. Every loop still gets set and stored inside Engine DJ Desktop or on your player. See track analysis.