Wow, I didn’t expect my simple little question to invoke such hostility against CDJ’s. lol I just thought this forum would be a good place to get a technical answer that I was having trouble finding. I still haven’t received an answer. Todd left a link for a nice article about the original nexus which does have adjustable beat jumping capability. I don’t believe the NXS2 has it anymore. It just has a fixed one beat jump button forward or backwards.
Now, I would like to jump in on the new subject of this thread since its my thread. lol I should tell you all that I use a Traktor Kontrol S8 with Traktor Scratch Pro 2 and I love it. I am not a big fan of CDJ’s at all. I also think they are outdated and I love all the things I can do with a controller.
Allow me to explain The reason I bought two CDJ-2000NXS2’s, a DJM-900NXS2 and two XDJ-1000’s. (I bought the two XDJ’s simply because I ran out of money for two more NXS2’s. lol)
I live in Chicago, IL USA. We have several clubs here where big names play at every week such as The Mid, Studio Paris, Shay, Cuvee, The underground and more. These clubs shell out big money to have big names play a several times a week.
I would love to play at these clubs but I don’t want to show up with my little toy controller (and that is how they see it) with no place to put it because the booth is filled with cdj’s. The sound technician doesn’t want to bother hooking them up and will get pissed if I unhook any of their stuff. If they do allow me to plug in and I rock the house, they will not be impressed since I did it with a controller and heaven forbid I used the sync button for a moment while I blew their mind with some other amazing mixes I couldn’t have even imagined on the cdj’s.
Most of these places have either original cdj-2000’s or cdj-2000 nexus’. I don’t know if they plan on upgrading to the NXS2’s or not but I couldn’t justify spending that much money and not getting the newest technology because that is how I am.
I just want to be able to show up with my USB stick and be familiar with their equipment so that when I blow their minds, they will appreciate it. I don’t think they are all purists but they know that cdj’s are the standard and you are expected to be able to use them if you want to dj there. Who knows, maybe after I have gained their respect, I will ask them to plug in my controller and show them what is really possible in their booth. Maybe that will open up some more doors for controller dj’s.
