Hey, what’s up everybody? It’s DJ Ty from agiprodj.com. Today, we’re checking out the pioneer CDJ-400, Serato Scratch Live. I’m running all these through the—get a little two-channel Pioneer DJM-400. And what we’re showing you today is Scratch Live native controller, the CDJ-400. What native controller is, is that allows you to use Scratch Live with something besides time code. You don’t need time code discs anymore with the CDJ-400. There’s nothing in there. All I’m doing is running it off to the USB cable. There’s no CD plan, so it doesn’t matter.
So we get USB connection, that’s my power. That’s it. All you have of course comes out to the Scratch Live interface and all my control goes through that USB cable.
Benefits of using native control, A) you don’t have to pack around CDs. The really cool thing is, it it’s bidirectional communication. And what that means is if you look at the display here, it’s got track data. Yeah, pretty cool. So what’s doing is instead of just pushing time code or signal out of USB cable, Scratch Live is pushing information back to the CDJ. So we got track data, we got time data. That’s my remaining data, 214, 213, 212. That’s remaining data. So I mean it matches. It’s giving you feedback back to the player.
The BPM push out to the player from Serato Scratch Live, 75 BPM it gets push out there. All you CDJ DJs when you use time code, you know that nothing BMP controlled, Rick is right, when you get time code in there because all its reading is the time code all the time.
Other cool thing that it does is more bidirectional communication is the looping. And I’ll show you how this looks and these are the looping of out points on the CDJ-400. And actually going for the camera on the screen because what you’re going to see, anybody who’s familiar with Scratch Live, there are green indicators that show you when you got a loop active. So, we’ll go ahead and bring it back to the beginning here. And I’m going to punch in the loop, and now it’s drawing that loop out. Press loop out. I’ve got a loop running on the fly.
So my control from here, from the CDJ-400, send loop information to Serato Scratch Live was able to mark that on the screen which is never possible before using time code because it didn’t have that two directional communication.
Another cool feature you can do with the CDJ-400 is if you played with them in an audio mode is this beat loop and loop divide function. So I’m basically press the loop divide minus. Look at the screen and see what happens to my loop.
So just a pretty cool beat chopping affects to that as well and that’s just one of the really cool things you can do at Native Support. I only have one this hooked up but you know most people if you’re using a Mac, you’ve got two USB ports. One of them, the Scratch Live box always goes in the left. So I’ve got one over here. If I had two CDJs hooked up, I get a little USB 2.0 hub. It’s not necessarily to have a 2.0, it’s just a little bit better. Make sure it’s powered, unpowered hub. This is not going to work for you. I’ve got one of those and it did not cut it. Power hub works great.
So CDJs running through a powered hub, that’s going to give you two more ports for USB hard drives or maybe a midi interface. The pretty awesome cool stuff. Today, that is native mode, time code, less control on the CDJ-400. Plainer DJ and 400, Serato Scratch Live, bringing it to you live here at agiprodj.com. DJ Ty, give us a call, (866) 776-6499, email me if you want get in your hands one of these, sales@agiprodj.com, instant messengers in our chat tool. My man Rick is on there all the time now and he’ll take care of you guys.
Thanks for checking us out today guys. Again, find your CDJ-400, native mode support on Scratch Live. See you next time.
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