So I'm giving the XDJ-RX a try because "no laptop required". I have an android device which has the rekordbox app, but when I try to connect to the XDJ-RX, I get the message:
"Please push the connection button that is located below the tree view of Devices pane of rekordbox (Mac/Windows)."
I don't own a laptop with those legacy operating systems. That's kind of the whole point of "no laptop required".
Am I reading this right that despite claims of a "laptop free" experience for the XDJ-RX, one requires a Mac or Windows laptop to use rekordbox? Why can't rekordbox be used to do its thing on either the XDJ-RX and/or the Android app? What's the point of having an Android rekordbox app?
@David > @Marek is correct; you can use the XDJ-RX as a "computer-free" experience, but your mobile device would be the unit doing the grunt-work of analysing your music and acting as the source when you want to play. There is no "export" when using rekordbox mobile, the audio files are imported to the app, then you connect your device and play from that device as the source.
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You seems to missunderstood the concept. You don't need a laptop or android phone to mix on xdj-rx. You need a laptop to prepare yor tracks in the rekordbox and export them to a usb drive for use on you laptop free rx. Of course you can just copy your files to the flash drive without any rekordbox preparation but you will be missing some of the nice features when comparing to the files prepared with the rekordbox but it will work laptop free anyway. You can make the grids on the rx anyway but its much much slower than doing in the rekordbox.
"Legacy system" - what does it means for you if I may ask? What kind of a non legacy system is your laptop running?
Yes, I really just want a complete 'laptop-free' experience. I guess there is no such thing, though these all-in-one's come pretty close.
I was hoping/expecting that the rather simple analyze/export functionality could be handled by either the very capable XDJ RX unit itself or at least the Android/IOS app.
I have no use for a Window/Mac machine. In fact, they are a liability and a maintenance nightmare compared to the Linux and ChromeOS laptops I have.
You can do it on the android app but the app can't do the usb export so you will always have to connect your phone to the player. As said - most of the things can be done on the player or the app but not everything and not with such comfort as on the computer.
If using linux, why not trying to use the Wine for running the rekordbox there? Btw at home I do have about 6 linux computers, 2 osx laptops and 3 windows laptops - not sure if maintenance of any of these is a bigger nightmare than the others..........
All DJ's need a laptop to collate their music collections, unless you literally use Vinyl or CD only.
Rekordbox is a software program that analyses your music 'pre-djing', so that it has all the bpm's ready to go, along with other information that DJ's use.
This unit works in correlation with Rekordbox, in that, you export your music (from a laptop), to a usb device, which then is inserted into this 'all in one' system, and you are good to go.
If you are after a complete 100% laptop free experience, you will need to buy either:
- turntables, mixer and vinyl records, or
- CDJ's, mixer, and purchase real CD's from a CD store (hard to find these days).
The world has moved to the cloud - many years ago in fact. At this point, cloud offerings and activity are quite ubiquitous. Many people's *only* local OS is a mobile device.
But anyway, you don't *need* a local OS at all. I do all of my work on ChromeOS and Android and have no need for a lumbering legacy OS. It's a liability to have one of those beasts - with local files I could lose and cloud offerings that can do just about everything better.
I can acquire my digital tracks and "collate", process, edit, just like most people do with photos these days - in the cloud. It's all done on a server somewhere. I suspect rekordbox is heading (or certainly needs to be heading) in that direction at least for the simple export functionality.
And yes, I've been happily DJing on vinyl with no need for a computer for some decades now.
As a person whose role is to run the "server somewhere" for simple, not demanding users like you, I must say that you are quite wrong in your expectations and idea of the perfect cloud world and sorry to say it so but you sound very naive.
If your live is only about some google docs and streamed music and video from somewhere, you must be quite happy with your great "cloud life" but this thread is an example of the fact that there are things that needs that "legacy" systems and will need the for next few years as well. There are people doing some serious work on hardware or software that needs a serious os and not toys for running angry birds like the chromeos. These "legacy" systems were used to design the hardware you purchased, to create the os you are now using, serving you the page you are looking at right now and for such wannabe cloud "enthusiasts" are these systems more current than any time else.
Congrats to your Chrome book, happy DJing on your chrome book, good luck with preparing your tracks on your phone and happy traveling to a not broadband covered cities, countries, bars, clubs, venues, with your beloved cloud getting you covered :)
Mate, you seem to be on your own with this one...
You will have a hard time convincing people that you are right, when there are millions of us out there who use Windows/Mac for music prep and collation.
Maybe you are ahead of your time and one day you can say to your grandkids, "in 2016 I said this would happen, and they thought I was crazy!"
It will definitely not happen any time soon, but it will sooner or later. So, kudos to the forward thinking...and although i am not in real need of anything like you want currently, i am also forward thinking and i feel your pain. I can easily see solutions in the future.
But, there is one thing i really don't understand with Mobile (Android) version and RX.
First, if you want to connect the two you need a wireless router. Thats like a fact. The second fact is that RX only has an ethernet port, no wifi. I suppose there could be a rekordbox setting push to RX for wifi security, or even WPS button. So, yeah, you need at least one cable for everythign to work.
But what i really don't understand is why the hell i can't connect my phone to USB of RX and be detected as normal USB. For me this just doesn't work. Tried with only 2 different phones, but i guess its a sample enough to conclude it doesn't work.
Or does it?