Let’s start the week with a video demo. Roger Sanchez seems like the kind of legend you’d want knocking out some choons on your latest and greatest shiny, and that’s precisely what he does using the DJM-900NXS2 and CDJ-2000NXS2s.
It’s a 12 minutes rolling house set featuring tracks from Roger’s own Undr The Radr label, and walks us thought the finer points of how four decks can be used to lace a solid mix together using just enough of the NXS2’s arsenal without becoming overwhelming. It’s not the best mix you’ll ever see, but it’s good to see Roger Sanchez in action.
Is anyone else marvelling at the OCD tidiness of the cabling? Power, RJ45, and digital out from every unit, all hooked together running from a single USB still makes for a rope of cables though. Perhaps one day, all theses devices will run wirelessly.
Using a CDJ basically as a sample player seems quite waste of money… this Pioneer hype is utter nonsense! But nothing against Roger, he is great.
So is this a good video demo for the Nexus2 – or is he just using the same stuff he has been using since the CDJ-1000 and DJM-800?
it’s the first time i see Roger in yellow mode (not all in red) BRAVO !
Nothing against the artist and the performance. But you certainly don’t need a 11k Euro setup to pull that off. This video just promotes the usual Pioneer EDM shitshow that tries to force the thought upon DJs that you can only be a real dj with overpriced Pioneer plastic toys. I would be far more impressed if I saw some kind of a creaative Pioneer / Vinyl / drummachine hybrid setup than this. Why not use the Toraiz or an ipad for all the loop stuff? Promote setup diversity within the DJ scene!
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The same as they have been doing from cdj presentation over and over. For vjing with their dvj (plus audio and video mixer) rised up 12.000€ meanwhile you could scratch video with regular turntables and proper software…
#OnceUponATimeItWasAllAboutTheMusic
100% agreement! Let’s see if Denon can shake it up a bit – or better still, Native Instruments doing some standalone gear – with the price of Raspberry Pi as low as they are, why not include a mini “Traktor” in each device and enable them to sync/talk over Ethernet? Could probably create a similar and perhaps more powerful setup for 50% the price.
Get a XONE DB4 and 2 NI D1s….. way more powerful with Ableton Lync than that and at 1/4th the price.
gotta agree – this was a promo video for the newest and MOST expensive DJ gear on the planet and he barely used any of the new features, in fact I’m not sure i even saw him use the 4th hot cue button!
while Roger for sure is talented, he could have just as effectively pulled off that same mix with a pair of D2s and potentially had even more fun getting creative vs. spending what looked like at least 25% of his time just keeping the mix in sync – and if you’re spending $3000+ per CDJ, i’d want to be getting my money’s worth – that would include syncing, using the touch screens, hot loops, quantised effects, etc
don’t get me wrong, I own 8 CDJ2000s and 4 DJM900s, i am no Pioneer hater, but the main reason I have them is because they’re on people’s riders – for reasons I fail to fully understand beyond fear of not being “cool”
That was so nice, whenever I watch a dj video I shut my eyes for a while and also listen with and without headphones on my phone.
Very nice texture and constant small changes that kept the mix moving.
A++
There’s a “how he did it” video too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiDFnFlTsI
Glad to see there are plenty of others who agree with me regarding Pioneer, so many haters around claiming your not a DJ if you don’t pay 12k for Pioneer stuff.. all that could be done on an SZ and a laptop.
So much hate in the comments below every article about Pioneer DJ? Why? Only because some people are unable to afford their gear? I don’t get it.
In my opinion Pioneer DJ have done a whole lot of things right. First of of all, they do high quality gear I never had a single issue with during the past two decades. Secondly, they are the company that has established the currently best CD-decks on the market as the club-standard and this cannot be a bad thing in my opinion.
Back in the days I made the switch from vinyl to CDJs thanks to the Pioneer CDJ 1000 MK1. This player was way ahead of the competition back then (Denon was previously the no. 1 in this field). Finally I have been able to play my own tunes instantly without having to wait for expensive dubplates of my productions to come in via mail. No more heavy record-case lifting and no more lost vinyl-cases when travelling to international gigs by plane (especially when going overseas this has been a real problem more than just once). I kept buying vinyl for home-listening and collecting purposes and moreover I had to keep my turntables at home anyway, since I had my own vinyl-label back then. Pioneer have been the first to enable precise CD-mixing on a completely different and yes – more professional level.
And I am indeed very happy to see how Pioneer once again takes another step ahead with their Nexus-range and Rekordbox DJ-software even if the later still needs some tweaking. Damn, they even got me into buying the DDJ-RX even though I never had plans of using controllers for anything but actual live-performances! They created a perfect bridge between home- and club-systems, allowing me to perfectly prepare my sets at home and do the exact same stuff when I am using CDJ 2000s at the club. And this is why I cannot be bothered to use Traktor or Serato at all. At least the RX/RZ/RZX-devices offer enough possibilities to prepare sets to be played on the Nexus-range at the club, without having to sell a kidney (or two?).
If you cannot afford the high-end CDJ Nexus 2-setup, then maybe you aren’t part of the target audience these players are intended for? Maybe some people should let this sink in for a bit before dropping their typical anti-Pioneer hate-comments.
And by the way, all you guys seem to forget that the oh so cheap and versatile alternative setups you suggest to do the same things with, always involve computers (which can crash/freeze for e.g.). Apparently nobody sees the huge advantage of the Nexus 2-setup that it can do all these things *without* the need of a laptop, which can often be the weakest link in the chain during a performance. See, this is yet another point you should think about…
This comment was not sponsored/paid for/endorsed by Pioneer DJ Corporation and it solely reflects my own experiences as a DJ and it expresses nothing but my personal opinions. *lol*