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Don’t forget the new – more affordable CDJ-900
Whilst all the hype is about the concise features of the CDJ-2000 from Pioneer, you can’t help but think about the price of this player. Pioneer brought out the CDJ-800 as a cheaper alternative to the CDJ-1000 for home users and the CDJ-900 is born as a similar alternative to the CDJ-2000.
You may lose some cracking features of the CDJ-2000 but the 900 still has the main benefits of being a media player and using the RekordBox software you can still create your playlists, cue’s and beatgrids to transport your tracks to the club. They include the Pro DJ Link technology too, so you can connect a couple of these units up at home…
Also you still get Midi Control and HID support for controlling software such as Traktor and Serato plus an updated internal sound card included 24 bit/96kHz. With all this plus the additional new features including the following, we can definitely come to the fact that the new 900’s will be in most DJ’s homes:-
Slip mode that fully maintains groove accuracy
The new Slip button lets DJs perform such tricks as looping, reversing or scratching of music without ever losing the flow or even a beat. The music continues to play, muted, as DJs perform, for example, a looped segment and so always returns – bang on beat – when the looping is complete.
Quick Return scratch enables the slickest tricks
By turning on the Quick Return scratch feature, DJs can make the CDJ-900 jump back to a set cue point as soon as they touch the Jog to perform a scratch. This makes it easy to perform beat juggling tricks without having to find the beat perfectly every time.
Advanced Auto Beat Loop for improved performance
When a 1, 2, 4 or 8 Auto Beat Loop button is pressed the Auto Beat Loop function automatically finds the beat segments from that point in time, making it simple to play a precisely timed loop. To expand the creative looping options available to DJs, the CDJ-900 is capable of 10 different variations of loop right down to 1/16th of a beat.
Prices have been quoted as being around £979.00 for the CDJ900 as shown here @ Soundware.