CDJ-2000: all the hype for this...

[DJ_Animus]

probably better off having ean tell them to just look at our lovely community of users here to see where DJing is headed, surely they would listen to him (nobody listens to me lol)

[autonic]

Like many others has said, is this a "new breed"? Not in my book, not even close.

Sure, it looks like a nice player but I still think that this will be the nail in the coffin for pioneers club standard dictatorship. They have basically no new features besides the color screen for browsing and the price tag is the most inane I've ever seen.

And for a midi-only no-scratch DJ like myself I wonder why on earth they kept that enormous jog-wheel now that they've implemented quantiniztion. Why not shrink the jog wheel and make room for more hot cues, effect controls or some other cool feature?


Or better yet, create a CDJ-2000 and a CDJ-3000, one with a giant jog wheel and the other with a tiny jog wheel but tons of buttons for midi-mapping/new features?

[DJ_Animus]

im not paying 3000$ for a pos

[DJPhaidon]

Change the game? A new breed? Not impressed.

For the price of 1, you could have an APC-40, VCI-100, VCM-600, and software. For the second one a nearly maxed out laptop, and you're still missing a mixer if you need a home setup. I fail to see where getting the "traditional" setup has any benefit.

[DvlsAdvct]

Or they can help to pioneer (oh, look what I did there?) something new and innovative like the CDJ-1000 was for the time. They are going to ride their trademark into their own grave unfortunately. I think they would have been in the position to actually help push a new movement.

And yeah, I've spent the cost of one of those things on my current setup and have massive amounts of functionality.

I understand their desire to try and provide a stronger club standard, but there are steps they could have taken for that. If they had provided a DVS to combine with it so the user could tag and build his tracks at home without the need for those decks, then maybe, MAYBE, the would be going in the right direction. It still wouldn't be the best option. But hell, I barely know what I was hoping for from them, it just definitely wasn't this.

[gh987]

Really mixed opinions on this. Its definitely not new breed but then again it is Pioneer and the name does sell.

I think its gonna be the cost factor that will make or break this product.

[bumtsch]

Waiting for someone to get a couple of these on an ethernet hub, sniff the traffic and find cool stuff

[djhipnotikk]

wasn't the 900 supposed to be aimed at the controller market? what fcking controller has a price tag of $2k?

pioneer i'm calling shenanigans..

[Adrian5]

I was watching the video with laidback luke and van buren with the cdj2000 and it was like looking into the past. They seemed so excited that they could finally make and save accurate loops. Also laidback luke mention the griding of tracks which he said there was so many new possibilities with.(software has been doing this forever). Can you imagine what their reaction would be towards a arcade vci with tsp (they would probably think its from another planet).

I would have loved to see them try to convert the same functionality and feel of one of those cdj1000's into a usb midi controller (I guess that will stay in a dream world for now). I like the idea of the new controllers that you buy with a midi mixer and two separate midi decks. Its just too expensive for what it does compared to what less costly midi controllers can do.

[gh987]

wasn't the 900 supposed to be aimed at the controller market? what fcking controller has a price tag of $2k?

pioneer i'm calling shenanigans..

Exactly! why boast as a new species and then stick a cd/dvd drive in the thing. A version of the 900 with no cd/dvd and cheaper price tag would have been a winner.