PropellerHeadCase
16-09-2007, 09:54 PM
I was at a club last night trying out for a Sunday/Monday residency and encountered the above set-up - it didn't take me long to get my head around the basics but I have questions for any who have used these...
1) Most important! Is there a way to make the CDJs play one track only rather than running onto the next track? My Numarks have single/continuous play options but I couldn't find anything similar anywhere on the Pioneers. I s'pose it's good practice to zero the fader after a track has finished but I don't habitually and got caught out loads last night.
2) Cueing... Pre-fader listen is simple enough but is there any way to send the post-fader mix to the headphones on the Xone mixer? I simply couldn't find anything that looked promising in that regard.
3) Mixing... on my Numarks there are the pitch up and pitch down buttons that allow you to temporarily bump the speed of play back up or down to align beats, nothing similar on the CDJs that I could see other than the vinyl-esque push and pull on the pitch fader which is hardly ideal for CDs (might be fine for vinyl) - fortunately my lightning reflexes meant that most tracks were dropped in time :D
4) Pitch increments... one of the CDJs had 0.05% pitch increments, the other had 0.02% pitch increments how can you select which (both were set to +/-6%)
Thanks in advance.
1) Most important! Is there a way to make the CDJs play one track only rather than running onto the next track? My Numarks have single/continuous play options but I couldn't find anything similar anywhere on the Pioneers. I s'pose it's good practice to zero the fader after a track has finished but I don't habitually and got caught out loads last night.
2) Cueing... Pre-fader listen is simple enough but is there any way to send the post-fader mix to the headphones on the Xone mixer? I simply couldn't find anything that looked promising in that regard.
3) Mixing... on my Numarks there are the pitch up and pitch down buttons that allow you to temporarily bump the speed of play back up or down to align beats, nothing similar on the CDJs that I could see other than the vinyl-esque push and pull on the pitch fader which is hardly ideal for CDs (might be fine for vinyl) - fortunately my lightning reflexes meant that most tracks were dropped in time :D
4) Pitch increments... one of the CDJs had 0.05% pitch increments, the other had 0.02% pitch increments how can you select which (both were set to +/-6%)
Thanks in advance.