DJ Superstore Open day July 2008 Video 4

0:00 Tell us all, what have you just bought?

Yeah, good one, good one. Alright, thank you mate. Brett! Brett! Tell us all, what have you just bought? I've bought one of them, CDJ-1000. What else? And the last, DJM-800 Big Son. Now, is your missus going to crucify you or is she going to buy you a cup of tea? Um, I'm hoping that she'll see how great this is and buy me another one. I'm afraid... You've got no hope, mate. You've got no hope. No, not at all. But you're a happy bunny, you know what I mean? I'm extremely a happy bunny. Nice one. We're going to do a YouTube video. What's your name, sir? Hi, it's Richard from Newmark UK. Okay, so tell us now, products. What's the latest funky thing from YouTube, from Newmark? Well, we have more than one new funky product, unfortunately. Go on, go for it. So you need a lot of video. Go on, let us know. We have the IDJ2. The IDJ2 is a fully functional mass media...

DJ machines will play music from iPod, hard drives, CD, audio, record players, 1210s, you name it, it'll play them. When you say CD and 1210s, have you got, presumably you've got phono or line-in then? Yeah, with brown. Alright, so am I right in saying you can put your iPod in there, have that as two units... We have two CD players and two vinyl turntables. But admittedly you've only got the two channels, so you can only go from one to the other. Between the record player and the CD player, you've got to make a choice of which you're going to use. But then once you're deciding on whether you're playing mass media or CD, then you've just got switches between line and deck. Got you, right, fine. So when that button's up, I can play from the CD player or vinyl. When it's down, I can play from any mass media.

2:24 Just about any format of any

One thing I always say to people, you know, it's very, very advisable always to take three separate entities in case one stops working. So there, even though you've got two channels, you can use three. Yeah, very good. Alright. We're showing it today with a hard drive. All these functions are also available on a normal standard hard drive, just linked up via USB. That hard drive particularly is a 500GB hard drive, but you can go 60, 30, 20, 40, 80, 120, whatever you want. Any sort of format for putting the tracks on the hard drive? Is it better in any particular format? Basically the IDJ2 will see and look at just about any format of any hard drive, but the recommended and the most useful is FAT32. Right, okay. FAT32 is the old proprietary Windows format.

Basically, when you've got all your tunes on there, there's various ways of seeing them on the screen. So we go to the library and we have options to search by track, album, artist, genre, BPM, year, etc. Presumably then it's press and you go through to the next page. Correct. You find an album. And then click over either side? Yeah, you can send it to A or you can send it to B. Send it to A. What I'm getting now is I'm going to do a similarity between something like this and a telephone, a mobile phone. You know, even though we've got so many different kinds of mobile phones, they're all very basic and similar in the way they work. So what I'm finding with units like this, you know, you've got one dial, you get to a page, press, another page, press, and then it's just drag over. So yeah, I mean...

5:12 Tell me now, what sort of market is this targeted at?

I've looked at this now the first time and I can see near enough exactly how it works. So listen, I like it, very good, very good. So at that moment we're in like a beatmatching mode where I can increase and decrease when I'm beatmatching but I can also go to scratch. I've also got a search function which allows me to zip through the file rather quickly. What I can also do is when I'm working I can visually over here You can see track information and also like the waveform files, if I can see any breaks in the music when I want to introduce a new track. And I can also highlight to show which one I'm working on. All very user-friendly. Tell me now, what sort of market is this targeted at? Is it any DJ or have you maybe mainly for the mobile, for the bedroom DJ? What do you think? I think we've certainly made it for all DJs. The ones that are picking up on it are the bedroom DJs and the mobile DJs. Okay, okay, very good. Alright, we've looked at that. Anything else you'd like to talk about? Yeah, we also...

Computer-based DJing, so I'd like to show you an amalgamation of products called Numark Q and Total Control. Okay, far away. Okay, Numark Q is a software that exists on any PC or Mac computer, both totally PC and Mac computers. As you can see from there, we have two virtual decks and a mixer. We have my playlist here. So here's where I can see all my tunes. The tunes are stored in exactly the same way as the computer formats and files everything anyway. So I've got my computer desktop. Down here is my music, which is the folder that normally exists in my computer. I click that and I find all my tunes. Call up an album. Songs that are inside the album exist here. So it is now, Casey, just drag and drop? I can drag, and I'm in. Right, got you, yeah. Okay? Yeah. So that's playing. What I'd like to introduce now, to turn this into real DJ pro or semi-pro or bedroom or mobile use, scoot down to the total control. Here we have the hardware controller where I can do exactly the same.

I can scroll. You see how I'm moving the screen on this dial? When I've chosen the album, I press it. That takes me over to the song list. Once I've chosen my song, I press the load button. So again, we're back to the dial and the load, which is exactly the same as that, which is what I was saying earlier. Now the song is loaded. Okay, so now the tune's loaded. Just press the play key and we're on. Now from here, using Total Control, I've got my input faders, which as you can see I'm moving them on the screen. It's very, very quick. Crossfader. I can also scratch. And I can also do looping effects.

8:07 I can slice the loop when my heels are on

I can slice the loop when my heels are on. I'm finding a lot of people, you know, want to become DJs but they can't afford the kit. But with items like this, you know, it's far cheaper with a bit of software and something like that as opposed to buying a separate mixer, turntables, etc. You've got it, you know, you've got laptop, bit of hardware, set of speakers, you can become a DJ. Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I'll tell you a little story. We've had guys that have, like you just said, wanted to get into it. So they've gone with this kit with the understanding they're going to learn how to do it on here and then maybe go out and buy the hardware. That's right, yeah. Do you know what though? Some have, some haven't. Some never ever got to the hardware. They are DJing in Proland on this kit. The ones that go on the hardware we find generally use both. Right, yeah, yeah. Alright, nice one. What's that saying by the way? Keep practising and have fun.

No practice and enjoy! And that was the only bit I reserved. Nice one.

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