The layout of the controller is clean and straight forward. The following is a list of the default settings. The top end of the controller will control fx for the left deck and bottom half for the right deck. The beats knob selects the effects BPM multiplier. The latch control is mapped to switch the on/off button between momentary and toggle. This way you can punch in/out of effects or have the toggle so you can tailor the feel dependent on which effect you're using. You can change which deck is the fx apply to by using the A/B assign buttons to toggle between left and right decks. In super knob mode (you have 3 effects available for use) the depth knob, on/off button, and the select knob will control only the effects selection in the first slot. In Ultra knob mode, the controller will control the effect for the entire channel. The difference between Super knob and Ultra knob are shown below. Super knob has 3 independent effects, whereas Ultra knob has one specific effect that can be a combo of effects controlled by 1 knob. The effect programming can get very granular as you can expand menus to adjust individual parameters of effect.
All the other controls on the unit are individually assignable so that leaves you with 3 buttons and a knob that can be assigned to other elements of Scratch Live. This controller is intended to be used with the two deck setup, so we'll see how the mappings change with the introduction of the SL4. My assumption is that there will be new mappings that look at which hardware is plugged in, and map accordingly, but you can always map these individually and save as a midi profile. New info to come on more features of the 2.2 update!
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