After a long hiatus and moving into a new place I finally decided to dust off my gear and get it all up and running again. On discovering that my Xone DB4 is now serato DJ certified, I thought I’d give that a go with my 2x CDJ 2000 nexus controlling decks 1&2 in HID mode. Keeping it simple to get back on the horse
However, I’ll be damned if I can get deck 1 to work. I think it’s a problem with the CDJ, it simply refuses to recognise a connection to my laptop. Both CDJs are connected to a powered USB hub and into the laptop, and deck 2 instantly recognises the connection but pressing link on deck 1 gives me no options. I’ve tried directly plugging deck 1 into the laptop with one of the USB cables that is working for deck 2, but still no joy.
Can any of you think of any explanation other than the USB connection on the deck 1 CDJ being fubar?
I usually dont get an option to pick a deck… it’ll “think” for a long time but if I just push the encoder while it’s thinking it’ll connect, it’s not as smooth as I’d like but it works. Also the DB4 requires the Serato Club Kit, so as long as you have that you should be good
Update on this - tried the CDJ again today and now it’s completely unresponsive, giving me a “E-8709 Communication Error”, which google tells me is something to do with the internal PCBs being unable to communicate with each other.
So the good news is, the USB port is probably fine. The bad news is that one of the PCBs may be buggered which is way more expensive to fix.
Looks like it’s beans for dinner for the rest of this month.
Could have been dropped during the move. Just had the same exact issue with one of mine, but was only $125 USD to get fixed. Total shit that it hapened right before the headliner needed the deck tho.
