Just got my new CDJ900's

[djarmed]

well here i was today awaiting eagerly to get my new cdj900's expecting them to turn up on my doorstep before lunchtime.....but no they arrived at 1655 hahahaha. Anyway i have had a bit of a play and mixed the first 5 songs that will be on my next set for the radio show and i tell ya what these decks are awesome!! i grabbed rekord box (which i had prior to getting cdj's) tranferred my playlist to my USB stick stuck it in linked the fuckers up with pro dj link and bam off i went. So far so good.

Hopefully after a bit more of a play i will write a bit more. oh and the quantize function is AMAZING!!! SLIP mode is cool too.

[ChevChelios]

here have some props :smiliewitharaisedfistwaitingforsomefistbumpingness:

[Cupe]

lawl

[Buck_Choi]

congrats

[CBG]

nice man

[ill_spector]

keep us updated on 900/recordbox partnership.

i'm thinking of holding out for 350's and running that

pending on the release price

[djarmed]

just wanna say a few things about rekordbox.

firstly it is good, categorises all your music and also analyses every track checking its BPM. As most people prob know it allows you to set up hot cues and cues and loops etc... i have used the cue feature a few times already and seems to transfer well over to the cdj. I have software version 1.2.3 which is the latest. Big difference is it actually lets you connect your laptop to your 900 or 2000 and just suck tracks off it. Making a playlist is very easy and makes life alot easier. For example i just listen to tracks and if i think they will mesh well together i just make a play list with them in it, in the order i wanna play then i put it on the usb stick and just load the playlist up on the 900. so instead of finding all your songs amongst thousands of others you just select your playlist. Like an ipod really.

The PRO DJLINK feature is awesome. so i use just one stick between the 2 cdj's and the 2nd cdj just feeds off the usb stick in player 1. No dramas yet, not glitches or anything with the music coming from one deck to another...

SLIP feature is good. for those who dunno what it is its actually keeps the track playing (muted) whilst you scratch and when you take pressure off the platter instead of starting from the intial scratch point it continues on from wherever the track is in realtime. i dun scratch but it can make even the shittest scratcher sound half desent.

I haven't tested MIDI yet dunno when i will though, dun really use software.

NOW the waveform which some people whinge about. IT AINT THAT BAD!! you can still easily identify highs and lows.

Screen is nice, its simple and thats what makes it nice.

Navigating your music is easy as shit.

Their has been mention of the cd loading times. I have no problem with that, my cd's are loaded within about 3 seconds of sticking it in, i think this issue is more for those models with outdated firmware.

The quantize fucntion is very very nice. you can create a perfect loop. i set a loop up, beatmatched it with another song and they stayed beatmatched four about 4 minutes (this was a test only) until i needed to nudge the jog wheel ever so slightly.

Let you know more in the future.

[CBG]

thats pretty impressive w the loops. i've always been a bit iffy of the auto loops on cdjs

[BeatLeSS]

thats pretty impressive w the loops. i've always been a bit iffy of the auto loops on cdjs

me too, i'm curious as to how you had that perfect with an auto-loop + quantize on. On mine it always seems to drag just past the last beat and then skip back to the beginning again.

Or did you tweak the loop? I've personally turned Quantize off and try and use the in/out whereever possible - apparently thats how real men do it

[djarmed]

thats pretty impressive w the loops. i've always been a bit iffy of the auto loops on cdjs

me too, i'm curious as to how you had that perfect with an auto-loop + quantize on. On mine it always seems to drag just past the last beat and then skip back to the beginning again.

Or did you tweak the loop? I've personally turned Quantize off and try and use the in/out whereever possible - apparently thats how real men do it

i really dunno. it amazed me as well. the track had been analyzed though. if that made a difference i dunno.

As for using in and outs when you have quantize function available.....dun see the point really. quantize was put in the 900's specifically for the purpose of perfect loops on the fly, so you'd be nuts not using it.