Pioneer XDJ- RX Is It for You?

0:00 I've got in front of me the Pioneer XDJ-RX

I've got in front of me the Pioneer XDJ-RX. Now, I've only had it a day. I had a mate of mine called Rob Griffiths around and we did a little bit of mapping, or he did, sorry, a bit of mapping with VirtualDJ so we've got a couple of functions working but the RX, now I'm not going to tell you how fantastic it is and how it will change your life forever and once you've bought something like this you are going to become the world's greatest DJ. Personally think, or why I personally think Pioneer brought it out. Now let's imagine you've got the superstar DJs travelling around the world, turn up in the hotel room and I'm sure they do. They want to have a practice of their set. Well, I'm sure on a lot of riders they request in the hotel room a set of CDJ-2000 Nexus and a DJM-900 mixer and any promoter or any club owner.

1:59 Everything is there in front of you on one screen

What I'm trying to explain here is that what Pioneer have done with The RX is they've given the DJ in a small package, not the equivalent of a set of CDJ and a DJM-900 mixer, but they've given the user almost a smaller version of that. You have slip mode, you have hot cues, it's on the one, it's quick, it's snappy, it feels good. Okay, I've got this ready. With a few tracks from rekordbox and I'd recommend if you get this to use rekordbox because it brings it to life. Everything is there in front of you on one screen. The mixer itself is, well as a professional DJ, as I'm sure you are, hopefully you will be one day if you're not. It's very intuitive, it's very simple to understand. You have all the functions you would expect to get with a two-channel mixer. But looking at it, you've got two players and a mixer. But you can also plug in vinyl turntables, external CD players. You can record your mix so you can have a USB in over there with your rekordbox tracks.

And you can record it on the USB 2 over there. So, it's great. It's a great way of going out, playing your set and then having a listen to it back home afterwards and realising how terrible it was. We all do it. OK, so this is really first of many videos. I'm going to be using this quite a bit. I like how it feels. Hopefully going to get it mapped a little bit more with Virtual DJ and take it out with me on the road and use it for video mixing. I'm sure in time, Virtual DJ or someone would have mapped everything and then it would just be a simple click of a mouse and all of the buttons and the functions will be perfectly matched to Virtual DJ and for that matter. Other softwares out there. So there you go, it's the XDJ-RX by Pioneer and check out Ellaskins My Channel and you will have lots more videos on this and for that matter other controllers as well. Practice and enjoy, thank you. OK, stop.

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