Hi guys, I have my first club gig coming up in the next month. The club will have CDJ2000’s (no nexus model). At home I use the DDJ-1000 and import my tracks onto a USB library, so obviously all my tracks are analysed with memory and cue points on the USB. SO my question is am I right to just plug that straight into a CDJ2000 or nxs or nxs2 player with all my tracks analysed and cue points already set etc? Or do I need to “export” them to another USB from rekordbox or something?
If the USB drive has been exported from rekordbox, you're good to go. My only recommendation would be to prepare a second drive as a backup, or in the event they haven't linked the players.
Good luck with the gig!
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Hi Pulse. Well I haven’t technically hit any “export” button or anything. All I’ve done is imported the raw tracks from my USB into my rekordbox library (the same USB) and analysed and cue’d those. So I guess my question is, is this enough I.e will these CDJ players read the pre-analysed track and cue data for each track on the USB, or do I need to hit some kind of magical export button for this to work?
If that drive is the source, then you would need to export them (to the same device is fine). The players require an export database to read the contents as you're expecting.
Ahhh ok great that is exactly the info I needed!
Many Thanks!
One last question Pulse; will the CDJ automatically read the cue data etc for the exported media? Or is there a button that I need to press to load it all up?
If you have the "auto load hot cues" preference enabled on the players (which you can set as a preference on your USB device, to be called up when you connect it to the player), it will automatically load your hot cues into the memory when the track is loaded, otherwise you would have to do that manually. All memory points (not hot cues) are always manual.