I’ve never actually seen a dj use “mix” layout, every dj I’ve ever seen uses battle mode (that’ll be over 100 different djs)…
Really? I use mix layout, for what it’s worth.
Said the man that came from the land of hip hop.
But damn this looks cool, the price is just a little steep. And the keypad looks awseome too, but I’d like it more without the drumpads so that it’s a smaller unit.
Although i’m stoked on these new turntables I feel that it may be too late for this. The ideal time for this product would’ve been within a couple years of DVS being introduced. It’s a great idea but there are already so many substitutes on the market (Dicers, X1, midi capable mixers: 57SL, 61, 62, Z2.)
Also Reloop stuff is especially hard to come by in Canada so I can only imagine how much it would end up costing for a pair after shipping, duty, etc.
+1.
Check out the Keyfadr 
Chord and scale mode. That’s bananas. Now technology doesn’t just do all the dj mixing for you, it makes the tunes for you too.
Thats pretty neat and all, but torque isn’t really a catch all end all for tables. 1200s are sitting at around 1.7kg of torque (the “low” setting for adjustable Numarks), and we’ve been scratching on them just fine for decades. The issue with torque is that it almost invariably leads to huge amounts of drift, ala Numark tables.
A turntable that bills itself on “X-TREME TORQUE” might end up borderline useless, because it has more torque than anyone needs for scratching, and way too much drift to mix with better than 1200s.
tl,dr: Nobody buys professional products based on specs, I wish China would realize that. “Cheap quality” does not need to be the pipe dream it seems to be becoming.
Don’t forget that they ARE adjustable, so you can tailor them to your individual preferences; think of them as a perfect hybrid of 1200s and the TTXes, and you get the idea. Things like the adjustable brake are a godsend, because the LCD panel tells you exactly what the knob is set to, so lets say you play a lot of 110bpm stuff, and you want the turntable to come to a halt in 16 bars time of “normal speed” if you stop it 4 bars from the end, by remembering what setting you need to use you can adjust it and replicate that every single time. Bit of a specific example, but yeah lol.
A deal breaker for turntablists might be that apparently the sound cuts off when the deck is powered off.
I think it’s awesome that Reloop is still investing in turntables, but these just don’t seem practical. The features are already offered in smaller units like the F1 and dicers, or are implemented in the mixers themselves. If your workflow is dependent on these decks, you have to haul them out with out to the party. I’m not doing that in 2013. Like a lot of new products you see, they’re great for the bedroom, but not much else and they’re really expensive.
A couple of the new Reloop controllers look like big wins though.
i would rather get a pair of technics
I think this ttable in battle mode will be a BEAST…IDK how much it’ll be though…
Over $800, supposedly.
I’ll stick with my technics then
While I think the RP-8000 is generally awesome, it’s a bit of a niche product. If it is indeed $800 that’s the price I paid for both of my Str8-150’s brand new. For people like me already invested into traktor software and NI hardware, these wouldn’t give the Traktor integration and visual feedback I’ve been spoiled by with the z2 and f1. Also with SSL on the road to becoming a legacy product with the SDJ update, this would make me think that Reloop would have at least announced if this will have future provided SDJ mappings(even though I’m sure it will). It just seems like it was released at a very odd time. It seems like this should have been released by somebody ages ago. Without as tight of traktor integration as a lot of modular controllers are offering for cheaper, this doesn’t seem like enough to convert current Traktor dvs users or even those looking to get into it. On the serato side it is just awkward timing with serato shifting gears from SSL to SDJ. (I know there’s lots of other dj software out there, but these are the to most commonly used for dvs) These would have been a game changer if it included a way to load timecode signal tracks for various software via flash drive for dvs control like cdjs (I can dream cant I?)
I would imagine that you’ll see integration with Serato DJ when the DVS is unlocked. As someone mentioned, Reloop & Serato are pretty tight so they probably thought about that.
The direct drive motor has digital pitch correction and there is very very little wow and flutter so no real track drift and the 0.02% pitch resolution is almost analogue quality. This is the main difference with the OEM decks. It will also be available as the RP-7000, which has the same motor etc but just no MIDI or LCD display.
No real concern with the unit losing signal when you switch off as the start/stop adjust allows for brake effects. The switch is recessed anyway so you don’t knock it by mistake.
Price in the UK will be £585.
Do you know if you can use the brake adjust to set the brake to ZERO to allow for a proper, normal “wind down”?
Also - I wish they hadn’t done it in a piano black finish… 
$933.95 for one TT? Or $650 for 1200’s and dicers? Or $800 for 1200’s and an X1 or F1? Or $1300 for 1200’s and a Z2?
As far as I know, with the brake knob at its minimum it’s the same as killing the power to the motor completely; it’s marked as 6s which looks - from memory - to be the same as powering off a 1200.