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I mix with a Mixtrack Pro II. Of course it is way less impressive than a Pioneer setup I guess, but (at least for what I do) it works very well. I’ve seen a lot of DJs using expensive setup like CDJ and stuff, and they can’t beatmatch/mix smoothly… The only thing that matters is : you must know your gear and how to use it properly. I’d be scared if I had to use something I never heared about… When you use your Mixtrack Pro II at least you know what to do if something goes wrong, you won’t be able to do anything if it ever happens with the Pioneer. 🙂

Yep, being comfortable with the gear you use is a plus.

You are welcome, albeit not much of advice, just supporting XavierD’s comment.

Doing great here, thanks. And you?

If u think your laptop is not up for the job, grab yur USB stick, and stick with the basic mixing, the basic should be the same between your controller and the cdj setup at the club

Maybe the USB thing kind of different, but shouldnt be that hard,
The rest is just load the track push play button and push Cue again to start from beginning
PS make sure u turn on the Auto Cue in the CDJ tough

Yep … and use the outside of the platter to nudge 🙂

And … if you want to set another cue point than auto cue gives you, hit play, listen for the first downbeat you want to cue to, hit PAUSE (=play again effectively), use the jog to cue up right on that first downbeat (here you can use the top surface of the platter) and then hit cue. Now when you play a part and hit cue it will go back to the cue point you set, not the one at the beginning of the track the CDJ came up with.

Good luck

The reason I dropped that info in there, is because it’s a common thing you’ll probably use a lot and I know some people who took some time to figure that one out.

DJ software does have auto cue. Usually it will have some sort of volume treshold and then (depending on snap) either snap to the first beat after that treshold is reached or right at the treshold without snap. But yes, in preparing a track you will often find the best place to have your track load and mark that as the load-in point.

Some software/controller combo’s work the same way, but not everybody does it that way or uses it that way (since you don’t need to with properly prepared tracks 😀 ).