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Pioneer Announces The CDJ2000 – CDJ1000 MK4
New Pioneer CDJ 2000
New Pioneer CDJ 2000
Pioneer have finally announced the CDJ2000 – the eagerly awaited replacement to the CDJ 1000 MK3. After a few weeks of teaser videos with DJ’s like James Zabelia, Swedish House Mafia and Roger Sanchez talking about how revolutionary it is… it actually is!!!
It looks to have new full LAN, USB, DVD, and SD Card support (as well as being able to play the existing MP3 and normal CD formats that it always did do). This means that all your tracks can be accessed from one hard disc or memory source over a mini network (an interesting single source of music idea) And with LAN support you may potentially be able to use some kind of VPN to a live music source?
Most interesting for me, is the mentioned support for the Tonium Pacemaker (Note that they say Pacemaker PRO) which if you read this blog – you will know that I own myself, as I need something very portable. I wonder if the “rekordbox” will be a feature of tonium’s new firmware/software update in “Early 2010″. It will mean that you can record your sets live to your pacemaker according to this Pioneer video (below). It looks that you could completely set-up a live-set before you arrive, good in many ways, but it kind of means that DJ-sets will be less spontaneous. Relating to this, it would be great to see one standard for mp3 audio dj’ing tools rather than the same old – import from itunes / sync itunes/ windows media player – maybe something that incorporates Traktor and Deckadance as well?
I absolutely love the new industry standard that they are trying to develop and wonder if the new Pacemaker update (Pacemaker Pro?) that they talk about in 2010 will be something that is a major update to the current pacemaker – or if it is a completely new product.
If you missed all of the preview videos I will put a quick link to them below:
CDJ2000 Preview Videos
Dawn Of a New Species #1 James Zabelia
Dawn Of a New Species #2 Eddie Halliwell
Dawn Of a New Species #3 Armin van Buuren
Dawn Of a New Species #4 Roger Sanchez
Dawn Of a New Species #5 Paul Woolford
Dawn Of a New Species #6 Laid Back Luke
Dawn Of a New Special #7 Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso
CDJ2000 – Overview (Just note the DJM900 Mixer!!!)
CDJ2000 – Loop Cutter – Really trick – something that is quite hard to do & do right on the pacemaker 
CDJ2000 – Hot Cues
My thoughts on the other CDJ2000 Features
The full raised and angled colour screen will mean that being hunched over trying to see the displays will be a thing of the past, and it will also mean that you won’t get lights flashing so much on the display.
I can’t wait to see more about the “needle drop” functions that they mention – and whether you will be able to play with this to actually improve mixing, I.E. rather than rolling to a cue point, actually manually pick-up and drop back the “needle”?
According to the new page on Pioneer’s Website: CDJ 2000
New CDJ2000 Features
- Multi Format Playback – The CDJ-2000 enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD,DVD-ROM, SD card and USB memory devices.
- Pro DJ Link – New Pioneer Pro DJ Link that enables up to four CDJ-2000/900s to beconnected and share a single music source.
- 6.1” Full Color LCD panel and Graphic User Interface – For displaying song titles, jacket art as well as detailed track information and wave form display of each song so DJs can find informatio nneeded to select a song at a glance.
- Needle Search – Helps DJs instantaneously get to a specific part of a song with a simple touch of the Needle Search pad.
- MIDI – Users can assign various buttons of the CDJ-2000 to trigger other devices, such as DJ effecters and software with MIDI mapping capability.
- Free Rekordbox Music Management Software Included – Both the CDJ-2000 and CDJ-900 turntables include rekordbox, Pioneer’s proprietary music management software that organizes and catalogs a DJ’s entire music library. When music files are imported to rekordbox, the software analyzes each file and prepares them for use specifically with thenew CDJ turntables.
The YouTube Video on the Pioneer Pro DJ Channel:
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My New Music/DJ Toy – Tonium Pacemaker
I decided a few weeks ago to buy a new toy as I was a little bored with the whole ipod thing. I was looking at getting an EKS Otus midi controller (I have now written a quick blog about the best place to find a EKS Otus in the UK: EKS Otud UK), but decided that it wasn’t portable enough for what I wanted, so having consulted my sisters fella, he recommended the Tonium Pacemaker to have a look at, and I ended up buying one a few weeks later.
Tonium Pacemaker
It has been really cool for the last few weeks, but… It is starting to really piss me off, as it seems to have taken to crashing every ten minutes, and basically not rebooting very easily at all.
I am now taking pictures of every time it crashes, and am going to have my Tonium pacemaker crash gallery on here and am going to send a link to them with pictures of each time it does it on GetSatisfaction and their user forum at Pacemaker.net
I am hoping they will help me resolve the issue as seemingly it was fine and then “developed” this problem when I was simply assigning a WAH effect to a tune. Irony of it all is, that I was showing it off to Simon – demonstrating how amazing it was when it happened… and it hasn’t worked properly since.
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