Quick random observations from my week-old DDJ 1000

this coming from 3 years of using traktor kontrol s4mk2.

build quality of the ddj1000 seems very solid.

i wish the gain knobs had a center click.

the shiny part of the mixer scratches very easily and is a magnet for fingerprints. the right side of my crossfader already has hairline scratches maybe coming from my nails while scratching.

the sound is superb! i ripped some vinyl and they really sounded good. not much level difference when playing live vinyl and mp3 simultaneously.

the headphone output is nice and loud! this was a problem with the s4mk2. i just wish i can actually separate channels left and right or do split cueing. and the headphone cue mix doesn't seem to do what it is supposed to.

the jog wheels are the best! the #1 reason i bought this controller.

rekordbox (first time user here) seems to be pretty logical and straightforward design-wise. i just wish i could have bigger fonts outside of the browser (nearsighted and old).

the pads feel very nice and responsive, blows away the s4mk2 pads.

i bought a pair of RB control vinyl also, entered dvs trial mode. the rekordbox dvs feels very different from traktor kontrol and i think this is where NI beats pioneer. RB DVS feels a bit laggy, there is no tightness to the record moving back and forth, it feels the movement takes longer strokes, kind of like spinning at 45rpm speed, i checked the settings and its set to 33rpm. is there something else i should check? also when i press the stop button on the technics sl1200, the brake sound doesn't sound natural (i'm on relative mode if that matters).

the effects are top notch, i just wish i can remap the color effects (the four buttons) to other effects -- is this currently possible or is it hardwired?

i love the fact that i can just remove my laptop and continue playing using actual vinyl records!

i miss the beatjump knobs on the s4mk2, for when you are about to run out of music and you just turn the knob to the left and you get an extension for your mix. i know you can always just use the pads to beatjump, maybe it will take time for me to get used to that.

i wish you can turn off the 'soft pick-up' thing on the pitch control specially coming from synced decks. it feels like you suddenly have a non-working pitch slider is what it is. moving the pitch control does not affect the bpm display immediately :(

i'm currently waiting for my tracks to finish being analyzed in RB so i can copy the music library and database from this mac to my windows laptop for backup. is there a way to just copy the database and not do an actual move? i would like to maintain an internal database on this mac, a mirror database and music library on an external drive and the same on the windows laptop. but the tutorial i saw from pulse (i think?) only shows that you can only move and not copy the database. help on this please?

overall i am very happy with my purchase of the DDJ 1000, i even got a free pioneer dj shirt with it! (with a mayweather/morales fight poster on the back) :p

johnny dls 20. März 2018 12:58 Beantwortet

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Hey Johnny, thanks for the feedback. Here's some comments to address some specific concerns:

"i wish the gain knobs had a center click."

Typically the "click" is for a "zero" point when you can go +/-, on a gain / trim knob, that occurs all the way to the left. Having a "click" anywhere else on the knob wouldn't be of any benefit.

"there is no tightness to the record moving back and forth"

Check your latency / buffer setting; set it as low as possible without any audio glitches / pops. Many DJs find it's more responsive than other software (I'm not a scratch DJ, just passing along the comments I've heard).

"i just wish i can remap the color effects"

You can! Just select USER mode for the color FX within rekordbox.

"i wish you can turn off the 'soft pick-up' thing on the pitch control"

Me too, hopefully a future update will introduce a secondary pitch control method.

"is there a way to just copy the database and not do an actual move"

My recommendation would be to simply create a backup through the software. You could mirror a drive, but then there are other potential caveats which may not allow you to load it (namely to do with the drive letter assigned by Windows).

Pulse 20. März 2018 18:42

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thank you for the reply pioneer dj!

very helpful suggestions, i will try all of them today :) cheers!

johnny dls 20. März 2018 23:19 0 Stimmen

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The acrylic plastic finish is OBVIOUSLY going to be scratch-prone and Pioneer designers were well aware of this when they designed the unit. Every designer with half a brain knows acrylic scratches easily. In fact, Pioneer hope you unit scratches as quickly as possible so you can justify your next hardware upgrade. Enjoy!

Murover 2. Dezember 2018 06:49 -1 Stimmen

The headphone split cue on the DDJ 1000 does work as I was having the same problem as you. If you click on the CUE button below the booth volume thern when you turn your split cue knob above the headphone volume knob, you will hear both channels in your headphones.

Barry Hay 11. März 2019 20:08 0 Stimmen