Pioneer XDJ-R1 + Serato?

[Bassline Brine]

I've been trying to find information online, and searching around, but I haven't come up with any reliable answers yet.

Is this device compatible with Serato Scratch Live when using an SL box? Either HID mode, or using time-code CDs?

I keep thinking about it, and I use SSL currently, but eventually want to make a switch to CDJ's (via USB) and rekordbox, and I also have some friends who are in a similar boat. This CDJ/Mixer combo controller really looks quite appealing, but it's a matter of being able to use it with SSL, and then moving on and practicing with Rekordbox and/or just CD's.

I still think it's the best purchase available right now for people who don't have gear, but I'm just wondering about the compatibility with SSL, which I prefer as a DVS as I primarily spin on turntables.

It doesn't look like there are outs on the mixer, so I'm guessing that the answer to my questions is no, you can't use this with timecode CD's because of routing issues. But if it is compatible in HID mode, you'd be able to plug the SL box into the inputs on the mixer, and run the USB from the XDJ-R1 and Serato box to the computer, and mix like that. It really has me thinking.

But just wondering if people who own it have fiddled about with it at all, and if so, what have you found?

[dj gullum]

I'm 99% sure it can't be done. You ssl box needs RCA connection from each CD player then RCA from SSL box to mixer. The XDJ-R1 does not have the cd outputs that are needed.

[Bassline Brine]

I'm 99% sure it can't be done. You ssl box needs RCA connection from each CD player then RCA from SSL box to mixer. The XDJ-R1 does not have the cd outputs that are needed.

Yeah but that would be using standard time-code CD's routing that way. With HID mode (with any of the newer Pioneer CDJ's) you plug the CDJ's into the computer via USB, and you also plug the Serato Box into the computer via USB. You don't actually have to run any RCA cables to or from the Serato box besides the usb (since as it acts as a dongle for Serato). If that is able to be done with the Pioneer XDJ-R1 is really the question.

[dj_adm]

You can likely do MIDI, but not HID.

Plug the outputs of your SL1 into the R1's Line-In's.

USB of the R1 & SL1 into your Mac.

MIDI Learn all the features of Serato on your R1.

[D-Kem]

This is a great portable solution for using SSL if you own a MC6000. Not as nice as the trusty turntables but handy nevertheless.
http://serato.com/forum/discussion/1058733#new

[haze324]

Yeah but that would be using standard time-code CD's routing that way. With HID mode (with any of the newer Pioneer CDJ's) you plug the CDJ's into the computer via USB, and you also plug the Serato Box into the computer via USB. You don't actually have to run any RCA cables to or from the Serato box besides the usb (since as it acts as a dongle for Serato). If that is able to be done with the Pioneer XDJ-R1 is really the question.

You still need to run the RCA's from the SL box into the mixer line ins. Then out to your speakers.

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[Bassline Brine]

You still need to run the RCA's from the SL box into the mixer line ins. Then out to your speakers.

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Well the mixer line in's are available on the Pioneer XDJ-R1 so that /should/ be an option.