Hey Guys, DJ Ty from agiprodj.com. Today, we’re checking out the Pioneer CDJ-400, running native support, no time code on Serato Scratch Live. I’m going to show you guys how easy it is. I’ve got my USB cord connected already. How fast this thing boots up?
First is power. It loads up, CDJ up. I press the USB, it’s in PC mode. It’s going to ask me right or left deck. I pick my right deck. We’re loaded up and we’re ready to go. Cool stuff that you can do with controls are interaction with the CDJ-400. I’m just going to go ahead and make this easier to see.
Things that you on the front of the CDJ-400, visually represent or controls things in Serato Scratch Live, the call button. It takes you back to your first cue point. The memory delete button will actually set your first cue point. So let’s say I want to set it there. I press—now I’ve got—so that’s two interactions between the controller and Scratch Live, something you could do like a regular CDJ using time code. I can show this in the overview video but the looping it out button and then the beat loop or the loop-divide button actually will cut that loop that I’ve got in half, half, half, pretty cool stuff there.
Search buttons, you know, scanning through tracks, you could transfer controls. The platter works just like you don’t really expect going back to the beginning on the track. I never said I could scratch. Anyway, it doesn’t drip around. It doesn’t do anything [demonstration]—beautiful.
You can set cue points, it’s just that easy. So I save on there, temporary cue point. Cue sets a tamper a cue on software [demonstration] kind of like this cue over here. Pretty cool stuff.
Pitch controller, it’s just the same. It sends pitch data to Scratch Live and you can see here 6.18%, pretty damn cool. If I turn on the master tempo button, it’s going to turn on key lock on Scratch Live. Now we all know that you can use master tempo on a CDJ or a CD player with time code, but this is going to send data to Scratch Live to turn on the key lock right here, and pitched up at 16%. Pitch up is pretty good, that sounds like—yeah. It gets a little chunky down that low, but I in negative almost 10.
So, pretty cool stuff there, again that bi-directional control. The final mode actually puts you in [demonstration]—gives you that ability to nudge. So if you wanted to find tune that mix, put it back in vinyl [demonstration]. Other information that you get is the text mode and it’s pulling text information from your track, track title, that’s my album title, my group title, time mode, that’s time elapsed right now, time remaining. Track search is actually is going to pick up the next track in my play list. So let’s try this up. If I press track next, it’s going to load that one. I can also use the select knob here to scroll through my tracks and I can pick a track. So again, there’s that bi-directional communication between software and hardware. It’s pretty damn cool.
Let’s say you’re playing a track and you need to sensor it, to do it before in Scratch Live, you’d come up here and you’d press the sensor button. Now, you can do it with the direction with the reverse button. That’s the same thing as sensor. It didn’t just role it backwards. It’s actually as censor [demonstration] and what it does is it’s reversing it but it’s keeping time as its reversed which means when you let go of it, it’s going to be at the spot where it belongs. Your mix isn’t going to sound chopped up like you actually hit a backwards, it’s censoring it, flipping it backward [demonstration]—pretty cool stuff. Nice to have that right there at your finger tips, you don’t have to raise it to your computer, or even pack around a MIDI controller because this essentially is your controller.
So that’s it. That is a lot of features covering native mode on Serato Scratch Live, Pioneer CDJ-400 running on my single USB cable here. They get Serato Scratch Live, my trusted Mac input Pro from Apple. You’ve got to have it. Right underneath is the Pioneer CDJ-400, I got this thing running through our Pioneer DJ-800 here, so it’s a Pioneer Fan Fest.
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