Pioneer DDJ-SX (HD) Talk through at the BPM NEC 2012

0:00 Controller, quarter inch, professional serato

Ladies and gentlemen, here we are, BPM NEC. I'm with my very good friend Mr Rick Parkins from Pioneer Europe and we are looking at the brand new Pioneer DDJ-SX professional Serato DJ controller. That was good wasn't it? And that's after a few drinks. So this is Pioneer's brand new professional Serato DJ controller that was announced just this week at BPM 2012. And it's a partnership Pioneer have done in conjunction with Serato that will support Serato's new professional piece of software, Serato DJ. At the show today we only have the hardware as the software won't be ready until the first of November. But this will be the first controller on the market that natively supports Serato DJ. So to take you over a bit of the hardware and what features and functions we've got inside there. It's pretty weighty to start off with. It's a really weighty piece of kit.

You want to see the connections, that's always handy. XLR outputs, booth outputs, I know everybody's always going on about on controllers, four line inputs, also a grounding post for turntables, XLR micing and another mic input over here, quarter inch jack, and the power and a USB and a Kensington lock. Okay, compatible with, you can plug your CD players or vinyl in as well. So yeah, standalone mixer, so it's all ready to go, plug and play with your existing CDJs, turntables, whatever else you've got. While we're on the front, let's do this section here. Pick it up. That's it, cool. So Serato's logo that we've worked in partnership with, 3.0mm quarter inch jack headphones, headphone adjust on this little pop-in and pop-out button. Channel selectors, a lot easier for controller DJs to kind of select their channel here as opposed to routing around the back of the panel. Crossfader adjust, and touch sensitivity for the jog wheels, and I'll go into the jog wheels.

1:51 Good morning, welcome to BPM 2012

So the jog wheels here are new jog wheels from Pioneer, and they're based on anti-static conductivity technology. So that's the same as an iPhone. So on the CDJ 2000... Good morning, welcome to BPM 2012... Just wait for Mark to finish. He's a noisy guy. On the CDJ 2000... Can we...? We're in. Go on. On the CDJ 2000s and all of our other CDJs, they're pressure sensitive, so it's all based on the tangible pressure that goes onto the platter. Now it's based on static. So as soon as you get a circuit complete here, it's basically going to stop the platter. So it's really, really good for performance and hence why we've got these little pots here to kind of indicate the resistance and the feel of the actual platter. That seems quite sturdy as well. Yeah, it's a nice solid piece of kit. So I'll take you over this deck here. We've now got these eight velocity sensitive sample pads.

Which, you know, people love to drum about at the minute and make loops and triggers and hot cues and stuff. So a really good place to access this from the jog wheel. And this will incorporate Serato DJ's new features of hot cue mode, the raw mode, the slicer mode and the sampler mode. Dual deck mode, this is a new feature unique to the DDJ-SX. Basically gives the DJ the ability to control two decks with one set of actions. So if I go dual deck 1... And I started to do a hot cue. I'm basically going to trigger hot cues on deck 3 and deck 1 at the same time. Right-wise over in here, in dual deck mode, do a sample, do a cue, do a loop, and it's going to trigger set parameters on each channel. So just giving the DJ a little bit more creativity and flexibility to perform. We've inherited the needle search of the CDJ-2000 range, really cool feature. The effect selection...

3:39 Effects parameters at the top, wet and dry, looping section down the b

Effects parameters at the top, wet and dry, looping section down the bottom. Final mode CDJ mode that we've taken from the CDJ range. 4-channel mixer, independent high pass and low pass filters like on the DJM800, DJM900. There are also hardware filters and software filters so you can either have hardware control or software control. Independent sample volume, so if you're triggering a sample from here you've got the ability To do a master output, but again like I said they are velocity sensitive, so that's kind of like a keyboard, so if you're going to hit a note gently, you're going to get a nice, hit it loud, you're going to get an aggressive pitch. Crossfader is changeable, and yeah, that's more or less it. Serato DJ comes out on the 1st of November, this should drop about the end of October. The first customers purchasing the DDJ-SX will also get a free video SL plugin that's got a value of €200.

And also, the first guys to buy the product will have a download for Serato DJ as opposed to the physical... When you say first, is there a given amount? There's a lot of numbers basically, so you should be fine. And one last thing to say is any DDJ S1 owners that own a copy of Itch will have a free upgrade to Serato DJ and that also has a value of 200 euros. So we're looking after our... Our predecessor product, the DDJ-S1, so that everybody can easily upgrade and they're going to get the best out of the software as well. Okay, retail price, what are we looking at? £809, available in all your good, authorised Pioneer DJ resellers. Oh, but that's of course, we're looking at the moment now, we're in 2012, prices can fluctuate, but there you go. Alright, Mr Parker, sir, as ever, thank you very much and practice. And enjoy, thank you Jonathan. Love you dude, cheers.

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