#Pioneer cdj 2000 software
One way Pioneer has tried to ensure that it's not pushed out of the DJ booth by laptops and controllers is to embrace the software revolution.
#Pioneer cdj 2000 manual
A trip to the manual explained that by holding the yellow loop out button and tapping the four-beat loop button, the reverse could be achieved, if a little clumsily.
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Initially, it was difficult to figure out how to increase the loop from a shortened two-beat loop back to the original four-beat loop again. Tapping this initially sets up a four-beat loop, while further taps shorten the loop by half and half again. Other new performance features include a one button four-beat loop, similar to the one found on the CDJ-400. Once you're used to this method, navigating around your waveform is as easy as it is with any DJ software. This makes quickly finding cue points so much easier and a clever needle lock feature during playback ensures that there are no accidents. Touching this strip lets you instantly drop on different parts of the loaded track, with real time feedback on the screen. This is a touch sensitive strip that runs below the screen, similar to a ribbon controller on a synth. More new featuresĪ simple but fantastically useful feature is the new Needle Search. Overall the usability is pretty foolproof and even without the advanced work in Rekordbox, you can happily show up with a hard drive and navigate around its folders easily. One thing that is worth mentioning, though, is that once the drive has been through Rekordbox, you're unable to access other folders that have been drag and dropped onto the same key, so, a hybrid key isn't possible.įinding your tracks from the USB or SD card is simple, thanks to a simple rotary button that can be pressed to navigate between folders and tracks with a back button above.
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That said, we were able to plug a 120GB hard drive full of MP3s that had not been through the Rekordbox software and it worked perfectly well too. Working with Rekordbox also means that when tracks are exported to a USB key or SD card, they will load much faster on the CDJ-2000 than if the key was loaded with MP3s that were drag and dropped. If you quantise within the CDJ-2000 then the Rekordbox makes loop and cue points snap to the nearest transient, making beat-perfect loops and drops becomes easy.
In use, this is quite special as it also works in reverse, enabling you to record cue points made when playing live and recall them in Rekordbox later. At the top of the software, you can view the analysed waveform and click it to set hot cue and loop points, which again can be saved on USB key or SD card, allowing any CDJ-2000 or 900 to be able to recall them. You can colour code your music and add all the ID3 information you might need to help recalling the tracks easier. This is a breeze, simply dragging tracks into Rekordbox starts the analysing, works out the BPM and allows you to tag tracks and rate your music collection for recall on the CDJ-2000 later.
Once installed on your Mac or PC the software enables you to import your MP3 collection (either manually or existing iTunes Libraries and playlists), tag it, set cue and loops points and analyse and prepare your music in a similar manner to when you import tracks into Traktor or other DJ software. The backbone of this is the included Rekordbox software collaboration between Pioneer and MixVibes - a sort of iTunes for DJs. When it comes to the more exciting new features, the CDJ-2000's main focus is on managing your digital music library and integrating seamlessly with laptops, MIDI and other new technologies that making their way into the DJ booth. Plus, if the screens or the jogwheel glow too bright for your taste you can tweak the brightness in the settings page very easily. Switching on the unit brings to life the usual backlit buttons but with the added benefit of a backlit jogwheel and huge glowing screen - you're not going to have any problems navigating your way around the CDJ-2000 in a dark club.
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