However, my personal view on these effects is to use them extremely sparingly in a live situation; otherwise they can quickly become tiresome and irritating. On a related note, the CDJ-400 will be working natively (not via MIDI) with Rane's Serato Scratch Live in the future (v1. I say CBR because that's what the manual recommends, but I used VBR and experienced no issues at all.

I tested other decks and other brands I can not find such a precision that these plates (pitch and jog).I like the ergonomics, I have no comment ngative formulate, and the effects are top (roll, auto loop 4 times, wow ! The deck also features the world’s first Scratch Jog Effects, with three creative scratch effects and an amazing new Loop Divide function. But now Pioneer have played not only catchup but in a small way leapfrogged the competition with the new wallet friendly CDJ-400. Everybody knows that Pioneer is truly the Pioneer for DJ equipment as well as many other consumer electronics such as TVs and DVD players.

I've thrown all manner of USB keys and various Flash cards at the CDJ-400 and they all worked just fine. Pioneer made two variants of the CDJ 400, both of which had black finishes along with distinctive blue LED lighting. There's a narrow ring around the outside of the platter that lights up - or not - depending on how you have it configured.Eventually, Pioneer added MP3 functionality to their CDJs - something they’d previously steered clear of for a long time, but the likes of Numark, Denon and Cortex had already announced or even released USB enabled media players. Pressing the Text Mode button toggles between album, artist and track name, along with bit rate for MP3s. Firstly I should start by saying that I am not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know my way around a CDJ. This particular wah is nothing like the scratch Wah effect and is in fact a filter sweep effect, going from low pass to high pass as you turn the jog wheel. It's nothing new - Denon have been doing this for years and I seem to remember a CDJ-200 slipmat hack.