A look at the Roll feature on the Pioneer DJM-700 DJ mixer

0:00 It's with regards to the DJM700 mixer

Right folks, Jonathan here. This is not a tutorial, this is really me having a bit of a mess around. It's with regards to the DJM700 mixer. Now there's a lot to this mixer. Now I'm dyslexic and I can't really read to save me blinking life to be quite honest. And sometimes you get a new piece of kit and it's like there's a dictionary in front of you and you think, pfft, forget it. But quite often then you'll go to the piece of kit and you won't know what you're doing because you've got to read the manual. Now what I've found with this particular item... I'm getting to know it without having to look at the manual. Now, stop because it's a good idea to look at all manuals. It doesn't matter if it's just one paragraph. It's always good to read the information because you never know you could plug it in the wrong way and all of a sudden it goes bang and your warranty is like at the spout. But what I've found with this is it's quite user friendly. So what I'm going to do now, this isn't exactly a tutorial, it's me messing around with a feature

On the actual effects, it's called the roll feature. Now very quickly, the roll will sample a part of the track and it will roll it in one beat, two beats, four beats, eight beats, or it will actually roll it in half a beat, quarter or an eighth of a beat, I think it's even a sixteenth of a beat. So what you will see me doing now is me just having a mess around. In a very, well, hopefully in the next couple of days, in a future video, I will give you an exact idea of what I'm actually doing. Well, not exactly an idea. I'll show you what I'm doing and I will explain more so. Explain what I'm doing. Now, what I have done is I've got a vinyl turntable and the mixer because so many people think, oh, you know, you've got to have CDJs. Well, forget that. You can if you want to, but I am not biased, alright?

2:18 I am not biased with any company, any name, any brand

I don't give a monkey's what people think out there, alright? I like vinyl, I like CDs. I mean, I'm into PCs a little bit but at the end of the day it's all about the music. If you've got a vinyl turntable and you're into vinyl then stick to it. PC, stick to it. CDJ, stick to it. It's all about the music. It's what you enjoy. That is the main thing. I am not biased with any company, any name, any brand. I don't give a monkeys. All I know is I like soul music and it's up here. Let's have a look. Hold on. There you go, there it is. New order, Blue Monday on a piece of vinyl. And there is the mixer. So let's have a little fiddle. Hold tight. Bang me leg. Three or four days and I've used it a couple of hours really to be honest because apart from...

Messing around with DJ gear. I have lots of other things to do, believe it or not. I don't really sleep that much, but there you go. What do you do when you sleep? Not a lot. It's good. I like it actually. There's a lot more to that than meets the eye. In fact, like I've said, if you've got a mixer like that and you've got two CDJ turns over, let's say for example you've got effects on your CDJs, well of course you've got effects on the mixer, then you add the effects from the CDJs to the mixer. And you've got, you've got like God knows what, whatever. But then again, you see, what I've tried to prove there is that you don't have to have a CDJ. You can use a vinyl turntable and you can still use a mixer. You don't have to have that mixer. You can use any mixer with effects. That's the beauty about it. But I do like that sort of effect. Now what I will do, that was just a bit of a sort of, well it wasn't even exactly a demonstration, it was just me messing around.

Hopefully in the near future, in fact over the next couple of days, I'll show you exactly what to do because bars and phrases are very, very important. There's no point just pressing the button anywhere because A, you've got to know your tunes and B, you've got to know 1, 2, 3, 4 and hit that button, 2, 3, 4 and hit that button, 2, 3, etc like that. Anyway, I digress. So what can I say except practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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