My friend and I have a regular gig in a club where we go back 2 back working off USB sticks in the CDJ 2000 Nexus and DJM 900 Nexus but as we both have controllers in our home setups (DDJ1000) we miss many of the features from the controllers, specifically the performance pads and laptop screen for the waveform and library.
We both have separate playlists on our own laptops so we’re wondering if it is possible to share these onto one laptop so we could set it up in HID mode with an SP1 to give us much of the functionality that we’re missing?
Alternativly in HID mode is it possible in a 2 x CDJ setup to still also use USB sticks but into a USB hub and access the tunes form there?
Ideally we would want just to be able to use two laptops in HID mode but I don’t think this is possible??
Your best bet would be for one of you to use their laptop, and the other to bring an exported collection on USB into their computer. From there you could use performance mode for the hardware, and load tracks from the main collection as well as the USB library.
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So the USB stick plugs into the hub and is accessible via the main laptop? Inc the playlists etc?
Thanks for your reply.
As long as that hub is connected to the laptop running rekordbox DJ, then yes - you would see the exported contents on that drive within rekordbox.
Thanks Pulse, that's perfect. The club gear is set up with Lan cables through a network switch, is it okay to leave these connected when we use the USB & HID mode?
Yep, just don't connect the ethernet to your computer - only the USB.
That's brilliant, just what we need. Thanks for the support, it's much appreciated.