Pioneer RMX-1000

Hey,

Although I don’t own either and haven’t played with the combination of the two, I did a little reading and it basically boils down to this:

There are three ways to hook the RMX-1000 up:

1. Take the FX send signal, run it into the RMX-1000 inputs, then take the RMX-1000 outputs and run them back into the FX return of your mixer. Clearly only works if you have FX send/return (or any aux send/return). The DDJ-SX doesn’t have it.
2. Take the output from your CDJ or other mediaplayer, run it into the RMX ins, then RMX outs to the channel input on your mixer. You’d need one RMX per mediaplayer. Unfortunately, no sound out on the DDJ-SX other than main/booth.
3. Take the master output from the DDJ-SX, run it into the RMX ins, then RMX outs into the amplifier, active speakers or club mixer. This would technically work, but you have no opportunity to cue listen to your FX, they can only be applied to your master signal which is already going out to the PA at the moment you apply FX.

Assuming you are using Serato, there doesn’t seem to be a external FX send/return possibility in it (but I am not well versed on Serato, so don’t take my word for it). If there were, you could hook up an external USB sound card, send the FX send from Serato to the RMX-1000 ins, then the RMX outs back into the inputs on the USB sound card and into the FX return in Serato. Again, no such thing in Serato that I could find.

I THINK that it could be done within Traktor. In Traktor you can use one of your FX channels and set it to “send”. That means it would send the channel for which you selected the FX to an external source (in your case the RMX through an extra USB sound card) and then back into Traktor. In theory! I think this would be a workable solution, provided you don’t get slapped in the face with latency problems.

By the look of it, the RMX-1000 wasn’t designed with controller DJ’s in mind and Serator wasn’t designed to use external (outboard) FXs. So in this combination you’d be up the proverbial “sh*t creek”.
The RMX-1000 would work wonderfully well with Pioneer mixers, like the 900, that have FX send/return channels. My Denon X1600 mixer also has send/return and would work well with the RMX-1000 as well as I am sure other brands will have models with FX send/return as well.

Is there a true solution? Good question.
1) I’d check to make sure, but I think you could set it up with Traktor and an extra USB sound card 2-in/2-out.
2) Go for seperate mediaplayers or controllers (you could check out the Denon SC-2000s) with a small DJ mixer with FX send/return. If you want to keep using Serato, you’d need to get either a supported mixer (some or all of the Rane mixers have FlexFX send/returns) or a supported soundcard and then into a DJ mixer with send/return.

Sorry, not a simple answer (they hardly ever seem to be), but an answer this time. So that is progress for you.
Unfortunately no nice way to get this setup working as intended with your current hardware/software combination. If you want to keep the hardware and are willing to switch software, you need to check out Traktor or perhaps VDJ with an extra sound card (latency I can see as a potential pitfall there). If you want to keep Serato, you might need to switch hardware.

Greetinx and I hope this made some sense. If not, ask away and I’ll try to answer you,
C.