So with the CDJ-2000 Nexus release, I’ve noticed a bizarre amount of people amped up about the scrolling waveforms, and in the past, I’ve noticed a ton of comments about wanting scrolling, multicolour waveforms.
I’ve been DJing for several years, starting on a lowly VDJ setup, moving through Traktor, and I now use a pair of CDJ-2000s, and while the spectrum colours were slightly useful, I’ve never really understood the point of scrolling waveforms!
My question is why the Hell are they such a hot topic? They’re completely useless, unless you happen to be deaf! I really can’t fathom a situation where I would want to see exactly what I can already hear…
I’m not talking about the track waveform, that’s always been fairly useful, bit the big bright scrolling ones that show you the beat zoomed in. You can already see the track’s structure with a track waveform.
It’s handy for seeing what’s happening during scratching, I guess.
Not seeing the scrolling waveform when I moved from Traktor to CDJ2000’s didn’t make me lose sleep.
Right now we just see a scrolling waveform, not two waveforms next to each other like in Serato. I don’t understand the fuzz either..
Now that you can do beatgriding and finetuning to your rekordbox liberary on the CDJ screen they are handy because you can be more acurate. I whish that the computer version of rekordbox would have them to, it has them but I mean like the once ont the CDJ display. I also only use the scrolling waveforms in traktor for beatgriding.
I find them useful for cueing and beatgridding, etc. I can’t really put my finger on exactly why I like them, I just do.
I imagine only from rekordbox, but don’t take my word for it. As I understand it, a scrolling waveform is too much info to stream accurately in real time without latency via USB. That’s why controllers don’t often have screens. If manufacturers started building hardware for USB3 or thunderbolt, however, a LOT more is possible.