Pioneer 'Nexus'?

**josh@firestorm** · 02-11-2011, 02:32 AM

Originally Posted by xtianw

sounds like an updated 800 with quantized effects unit, sound card, and touch strips.

if that things both serato and traktor compatible like he implies (As does the name nexus when you think about it, they are going to sell a metric fuckton of those things.

he says ableton and traktor.. not serato and traktor, just to clarify for the kids playing at home..

i think its most definitely an 'upgraded 800' judging by the pics and the way he talks about it (the 800) already being in most clubs, and how this going to be compatible for people with traktor and ableton to be able to just plug in (with the unit's internal sound card)...

hmmm... the new club standard?

**D@VE!** · 02-11-2011, 02:43 AM

James Zabiela shows next big thing by Pioneer :

Absolute the follow up from the DJM800, he's say's in the video.

i think it's gonna be called :

DJM900 Nexus

What i see in this video :

Layout djm800
6 inst EFX
X-Track pad

What i hear in this video :

Quantized EFX
Soundcard supporting Traktor.

**xtianw** · 02-11-2011, 02:58 AM

i REALLY want those pioneer monitors.

**space monkey** · 02-11-2011, 05:53 AM

My guess: 1900-2500 USD? Still looking at the DB4 regardless of cost

**djmaverick** · 02-11-2011, 10:15 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1JrD...layer_embedded

Looks like a new mixer, probably the 800 replacement.

**Peter Willis** · 02-11-2011, 10:24 AM

nice !
lots of cheap 800's on the second hand market !

looks like they added a matrix input (there is an extra knob over the gain on the last image)
also seems to have 6 direct effects like on the 2000

"using traktor, plug straight in"
if this thing as a sound card and is traktor scratch certified, it's going to be so sweet.
plus if it could connect to the CDJs, and if you ad good HID support for the CDJ 900 and 2000 :

you come to the club, and all you have to do is plug one usb cable in the mixer, boom, instand control over 2 CDJs, + you add a kontrol X1 for effects and sample decks...

ctrld · 02-11-2011, 10:31 AM

is he STILL doing that boring transformer trick?

// edit: just finished watching. doesn't look like much. fx laughable compared to TSP. but then, this is pioneer... they haven't been pioneering much since the CDJ1000.

**tyfurious** · 02-11-2011, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by ctrld

// edit: just finished watching. doesn't look like much. fx laughable compared to TSP. but then, this is pioneer... they haven't been pioneering much since the CDJ1000.

Pretty close to what I was thinking. But I took it a step further and though Traktor's effects were laughable to the possibilities of Ableton + Reaktor.

I'm pretty excited though, but for other DJ Buddies that will have nerdgasms over this.

**safefire** · 02-11-2011, 11:38 AM

I'm halfway excited, halfway skeptical.
On one hand, being able to plug in traktor to a pair of CDJ straight off a mixer sounds pretty sweet.
On the other, it really sounds like Pioneer are pushing what they can do to the absolute MAX without having to actually, you know, reinvent themselves.

Something breaking your game down and building something new from scratch is a good thing. That's what a great bunch of DJ's, especially around here, looks to have done by going digital.

I'd much rather see Pioneer apply their build quality and expertise to a brand new concept or line of products instead of trying to bake more bread on their now ten years old CDJ paradigm.