The MODS menu

MODS is the menu XZ Mods adds to the player. Everything the mod can change lives here, sorted by what you want to do. Both interfaces open the same menu, so what you learn here works in MODERN and CLASSIC. In MODERN, MODS uses the MODERN look. In CLASSIC, it uses the theme you chose.

#Open and close MODS

Press MENU on the play screen. A short press opens MODS wherever MENU has no other job, and leaves its normal job alone everywhere else. Hold MENU to open the player's own UTILITY, as without XZ Mods.

Where you are	Short press of MENU
The MODS menu is open	Closes MODS
A game is on screen	The game's own key
The VJ.Tools view is on screen	As before
A menu, popup or dialog is open	Works or closes the open menu
A track list (browse, playlist, search, history)	The sort menu or the track menu
TAG LIST	LIST MENU
The play screen in GRID ADJUST	The beat grid menu
The play screen	Opens MODS experimental
The SOURCE screen	Opens MODS experimental
The track INFO screen	Opens MODS experimental
The SHORTCUT screen	Opens MODS experimental
The player's own UTILITY	Closes UTILITY
Any other screen	The screen's own job

To leave MODS, press MENU again, tap CLOSE in the top right corner, or press BACK until you are back on the play screen.

You can also open MODS from the MODS button at the top of the MODERN play screen, or from the button above LINK when you set it to MODS MENU in PLAY.

#Move around

You can drive the whole menu with the rotary encoder, with touch, or with both.

Control	What it does in MODS
Turn the encoder	Moves the highlight to the next card, row or button
Push the encoder	Opens or changes the highlighted item
BACK	Goes up one level: from an open item to its page, then from a page to the section rail
Tap	Opens or changes whatever you tap

The hints in the bottom right corner (TURN MOVE · PUSH SELECT · BACK UP) always show what the encoder and BACK will do next.

Every page has the same frame. The section rail on the left lists HOME, PLAY, STEMS, SCREEN, 4 DECKS, CONNECT and EXTRAS. The dock along the bottom explains whatever is highlighted. On the right of the dock, WORKS ON shows which decks the highlighted feature works on, in mixer order 3 1 2 4. A dimmed number means the feature does not work on that deck, and a short amber line says why.

#HOME

HOME is the first page. It shows one card for each section, with a one-line summary of what the section does and the current state of its most important setting, so you can see at a glance whether stems are ready or four decks are connected.

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1. 1
   BACK

   Goes up one level. On HOME it closes MODS.

2. 2
   Section rail

   Every section of MODS, top to bottom. Tap one, or turn the encoder while the rail is highlighted.

3. 3
   Section card

   Opens that section. The highlighted card has a light outline.

4. 4
   Status line

   The state of the section's main setting. Green means ready, amber means it needs you.

5. 5
   Setup button

   Appears when a feature needs setting up, and starts a short guide for it.

6. 6
   Dock

   Explains the highlighted item in plain words before you open it.

7. 7
   Save state

   Confirms your changes are saved to the USB, or says why they cannot be.

8. 8
   Encoder hints

   What turning, pushing and BACK will do right now.

9. 9
   CLOSE

   Closes MODS and returns to where you were.

Two setup buttons can appear on HOME. SET UP USB STEMS opens the USB stems guide when the stem engine is not ready. SET UP FOUR DECKS opens 4 DECKS when no cable is found, a start failed, the cable was lost, or the USB loader has no four-deck engine.

#PLAY

PLAY changes what the pads and buttons do while you perform.

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1. 1
   BEAT JUMP PADS

   Your own beat jump distances for both pad pages. The row shows the sizes now in use.

2. 2
   GATE CUE and SMART CUE

   Switch each cue trick on or off. A feature the player has not reported yet shows a SET UP button instead.

3. 3
   KEYS and RAM TRACKS

   Open their own pages.

4. 4
   BUTTON ABOVE LINK

   What the button above LINK does on a press, and with SHIFT.

5. 5
   WORKS ON

   The decks the highlighted feature works on.

Beat jump and performance features explains every item on this page.

#STEMS

STEMS mutes vocals, harmonics and drums from the pads or the screen.

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1. 1
   USB STEMS

   Switches stems from the USB on or off. Reads SET UP USB STEMS until the stem engine is ready.

2. 2
   STEM PADS

   Which pad mode and pad bank the stems use.

3. 3
   Stem buttons on screen

   Where the stem buttons sit on the play screen. Each picture is one layout.

4. 4
   STEM COLOURS

   The colours of drums, harmonics and vocals.

5. 5
   WORKS ON

   Only decks 1 and 2 are lit. The amber line under it says decks 3 and 4 have no stems.

STEMS IN DJ SOFTWARE sets up stems for a computer playing through the player. MODERN adds a BYPASS BUTTON switch beside STEM COLOURS. Stems explains every item on this page.

#SCREEN

SCREEN sets how the play screen looks.

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1. 1
   INTERFACE

   CLASSIC or MODERN. The picture shows each one.

2. 2
   DECK VIEW

   2 DECKS, 4 DECKS in number order, or 4 DECKS in mixer order.

3. 3
   THEME

   The CLASSIC theme. In MODERN this place holds LAMPS AND TITLES instead.

4. 4
   3-BAND COLOURS

   A colour for the lows, mids and highs of the 3-BAND waveform. The squares show the colours in use.

5. 5
   WAVEFORM COLOURS

   STOCK, 3-BAND or STEMS. MODERN adds RGB.

6. 6
   KEY NOTATION

   AS ON THE USB, MUSICAL or WHEEL, each with an example key.

7. 7
   Keys and the track list

   PLAYING KEY, KEY MATCH COLOURS, KEY BEFORE TITLE and TRACK LIST COLUMNS.

8. 8
   SYSTEM READOUT

   CPU, memory and temperature on the top bar, on its own row at the bottom of the page.

Screen, interfaces and themes explains every item on this page. DECK VIEW is explained in Four decks.

#4 DECKS

4 DECKS plays decks 3 and 4 over the loopback cable experimental.

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1. 1
   Cable state

   Where four decks stand, and what happens next.

2. 2
   RESCAN

   Checks the cable now. Reads TRY AGAIN after a failed start.

3. 3
   DECK VIEW

   How many decks the play screen shows, and in what order.

4. 4
   What works on each deck

   A tick for every deck a feature works on.

Four decks explains the cable, every state and what decks 3 and 4 can do.

#CONNECT

CONNECT links the player to you and to computers.

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1. 1
   DJ PROFILE

   Your DJ name and logo from the USB, for VJ screens.

2. 2
   VJ.TOOLS

   Lets VJ.Tools on a computer connect, and shows its picture instead of the play screen.

3. 3
   NETWORK

   The network adapter and address, applied for this start of the player.

4. 4
   UPDATES

   Signed updates over the network. An update becomes active at the next start.

Connect and DJ profiles explains every page here.

#EXTRAS

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1. 1
   GAMES

   Doom, Chex Quest, Beat Arcade, Wave Rider, Rhythm Lab and Static Surfer. The music keeps playing.

2. 2
   USB APPS

   Apps for the XZ from the USB.

3. 3
   REPORT AN ISSUE

   Sends a problem, a question or an idea, in three presses.

4. 4
   ABOUT XZ MODS

   Credits, links and support.

5. 5
   LANGUAGE

   The language of the MODS menu.

Extras explains every page here.

#UTILITY, the player's own settings

MENU held opens the player's own UTILITY: quantize, auto cue, play mode, the display and the player's other settings.

• In CLASSIC you see the player's own UTILITY screen, unchanged.
• In MODERN, UTILITY shows the player's settings in the MODERN colours.
• In MODERN, MODS also has a UTILITY cell at the bottom of the section rail. It closes MODS and opens UTILITY. Until MODERN has read the player's settings, it reads NOT READY.

#MODERN UTILITY modern

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1. 1
   UTILITY STOCK

   The player's own settings. On the player, the rail lists the MODS sections below it, and each one opens MODS on that section.

2. 2
   Group

   DJ SETTING, DISPLAY (LCD), MIXER, SYSTEM and INFO, as on the player.

3. 3
   Lock

   XZ Mods shows this setting but cannot change it here. The help says why.

4. 4
   Current value

   A locked setting shows its value without choice buttons. Writable settings open a list of choices.

5. 5
   Help

   What the setting does and why it is read-only here, or what a writable choice means.

6. 6
   Version

   The player's firmware version.

7. 7
   Deck strip

   Decks 1 and 2 stay in view while you change settings.

Turn the encoder to move through the settings. On a writable row, push to open its choices, turn to pick one and push to set it. A locked row stays in the list and shows a read-only value and explanation. BACK goes back to the list. MENU or X closes UTILITY.

A lock next to a setting comes with one of these notes:

Pushing a locked setting does nothing.

#MY SETTINGS modern

MY SETTINGS shows the player settings saved on a USB stick, and the DJ profiles on it. In MODERN, open the stick in browse, highlight the category rail on the left, and press MENU.

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1. 1
   MY SETTINGS

   The panel for the stick you browse. X closes it.

2. 2
   Stick

   The stick whose settings these are: USB 1, USB 2, or a LINK player's USB.

3. 3
   LOAD TO DECK

   Applies the settings saved on the stick to the active deck. Reads PAUSE DECK 1 TO LOAD while that deck plays.

4. 4
   SAVE TO USB 1

   Saves the player's current settings to the stick, replacing the ones there. Push once to arm it, then again to save.

5. 5
   DJ PROFILE

   The DJ profiles on the stick. Push one to make it active and apply its settings and look. ACTIVE marks the one in use.

6. 6
   DAMAGED

   A profile whose files cannot be read.

7. 7
   SAVE SETTINGS TO

   Saves the current settings into the active DJ's profile. Push twice.

8. 8
   Help

   What the highlighted row does.

Further down, WAVEFORM sets COLOR, POSITION, ZOOM, USB COLORS and the stem row layout. SAVED ON USB 1 lists the settings stored on the stick, which you can change there.

#Saving to the USB

There is no save button in MODS. Every change saves on its own to the settings USB, the stick you browse. The settings live in the VJ.Tools folder on that stick, so they travel with you to another XZ running XZ Mods. When you browse a stick, the player takes that stick's settings. A stick with no settings, or with damaged ones, leaves the current settings as they are.

The XZ also remembers the last settings it applied. If you start it with no stick, it uses them.

The save state at the right of the dock says what happened to your last change:

Lines that say NOT SAVED or NO SETTINGS USB show in amber. DJ profiles are not settings. They stay on the DJ's stick and never on the XZ. See Connect and DJ profiles.

#Older pages

Earlier versions had GENERAL, CONTROLS, THEMES and SETTINGS pages in MODS. They are gone. Anything that pointed at them now opens the page that replaced them: