Hi guys, just got ahold of a new Pioneer djm850 and pair of cdj900 nexus. I come from a traktor S4 mk1 background and traktor DVS background. A couple of questions.
Would it be possible to play through rekordbox on my laptop via connecting to the djm850 through a usb cable?
But I realise that the mixer does not have a LAN cable input at the rear panel and it isn’t rekordbox compatible.
Does this mean that the only way for me to play rekordbox analysed files is through USB thumbdrives/HDDs?
I know that the djm850 is traktor scratch certified. How would I set this up? I have traktor scratch pro 2 and the associated vinyl/control cds.
Do I set everything on the pioneer djm850 setting utility to
a) input usb1/2 and usb 7/8
b) output ch1 and ch4 phono timecode
c) and set my traktor settings input/output corresponding?
For cables, all I need would be to connect my laptop to the djm via usb cable?
(I have a pair of 1210s)
Would it be possible to do hybrid mode in this case?
The fact that the mixer doesn’t have ethernet doesn’t matter really.
Hook up the 2 CDJs and your laptop together via an ethernet switch/hub (no USB involved).
Then you can play tracks from Rekordbox on your laptop via each CDJ.
Use Pioneer’s DJM-850 settings utility software to assign in/out channels as you wish.
I wouldn’t really suggest you bother though as…
Traktor doesn’t support HID mode on the 900 Nexus decks yet, and Traktor + timecode is way less nice to use than the regular Rekorbox setup. So unless you REALLY need Traktor’s FX or something, I wouldn’t bother.
Thank you for the reply. I just went to mess around with control cds with traktor, and got it to work easily. Only issue is that the CUE button isn’t on time/accurate. Needed to scratch the track in on time. Had the same problem with cdj1000mk2s some time ago. Is this normal with control cds? Or just me?
Would it be possible to usb connect my laptop to a cdj900nexus and then have the cdjs linked up via LAN in order to play rekordbox via my laptop? Skipping the mixer totally. As I don’t have an ethernet hub at the moment.
Thanks for the DVS suggestion! Just exploring my options.
Traktor does some weird shit with cueing and timecode CDs, which Serato doesn’t, and that’s why I’ll choose any option in the world other than timecode CDs with Traktor…
What you need to understand about the Rekordbox setup, is that the USB side of things is removed entirely from the equation. If you want to get music from Rekordbox on your laptop to the CDJs, you either export tracks to a USB stick/drive, or hook up via ethernet.
A simple ethernet switch is dirt cheap, I’ll find the one I bought so you can see an example.
They do, but if the OP doesn’t have a router already, it’s more expensive and more hassle to setup a wifi arragement rather than just hook up some LAN cables, IMO.
The players themselves don’t have wifi hardware built-in. They must be hooked up via ethernet cables. You can then send from RB on the computer to the wireless router which the players are connected to.
I guess “plays tracks from your phone, tablet, or computer, via wifi, provided you’ve gone to the lengths of setting everything up via a wireless router and a bunch of cables, in a rather convoluted way” doesn’t make for great ad copy.
“we support wifi as long as we don’t have to connect to it” or “you can create a wifi network and wire us into it” would be more truthful..
they advertise wifi, it’s the small print you don’t see. I’ve not researched these much but the “wifi” part is always touted as a feature when in reality anything that supports a wired network would work as “wifi” like this.
Well, to give them some credit, it all relies on the apps being able to stream that data to the players correctly over wifi, so it’s not like they haven’t made some effort there.
Can’t beam music from Traktor to CDJs through thin air, at all, for example.
It’s a cool tech, but definitely would have been better implemented if the players had wifi built in, like the XDJ-R1 (or Aero) controller (I forget which one has it).
anything that takes data over ethernet could be served this way. the wifi isn’t known by the applications, it’s just a network transfer. this is done in the network layer.
