My Set Up Consists of:
2 x Denon SC2900s
2 x Technics 1200s
1 x Pioneer DJM900NXS
Traktor Scratch Pro
13inch Macbook Pro late 2012
27inch Apple Thunderbolt Display
Novation Dicers
N.I Kontrol X1
Mackie MR5 Monitors
sennheiser HD-25 Adidas Originals
and 3 Ikea Expedit Units
love the dicers on my turntables, i mainly use them for cue points so i can flick around my tracks easier,
now the denon decks, i got them on friday, iv been wanting to get CDJs for some time but couldnt justify the the price of the pioneers so stuck with turntables,
untill last week when i got these for £300 each, really happy with them, solid decks, they feel very similar to the pioneers in the way they feel.
iv got them set up with Engine, and this works flawlessly, i thought the waveforms would cause me an issue as im used to traktor but again this was fine.
overall i love them and i think its a shame these decks didnt do as well as they deserve.
o only have a small studio room so the MR5s do me fine, i also have to bung the ports up to help control the bass, i think the 8s would have been to much ha : )
They are starting to show up more & more in people’s setups, particularly over the last few months- the 50% price drop has probably helped! They were damn good value before, so they really area steal now.
As for the poster asking how they compare to Pioneer CDJs- they are essentially a CDJ900 but with added hot-cues, jog tension adjust, pitch bend, separate start/stop time adjust, and a much smoother (spindle mounted) jog wheel- rather than the plastic bearing system used on Pioneer models. They are also around 50% heavier than the 900s, and in my experience (I’ve owned them almost 2 years, after owning CDJ900s previously) they are more robust.
The Pioneer CDJ2000/2000nexus and 900nexus are in another league due to their large full colour screens, but these are the next best things.
I don’t think you can currently do this in either Engine or Rekordbox (as in get the waveform to display in the software while mixing). I believe it’s due to the fact that all of the music processing is happening on-board the players themselves, they are simply loading the track from the Engine/Rekordbox software. As opposed to more traditional DJ software (Traktor/Serato) whereby the software on the computer is processing the music, and the players are simply sending midi signals to the computer to manipulate it.
It has cropped up as a suggestion time and again on the forums though, but it would need the software to become more traditional DJ software as opposed to simply a music management device.