The pads aren’t of the velocity-sensitive, fully backlit type you find on high-end DJ controllers, but they will certainly do the job. Performance pads Pioneer DJ XDJ-XZ performance pads Personally, I’m happy with both mechanical as touch capacitive.įinally, the jogs have tension and speed adjust, which allows you to configure them exactly as you like them. The jog wheels are mechanical, which will be appreciated by DJs that are used to this. These are full-size jog wheels, with a center LCD screen that displays a wealth of track information, and with jog tension, adjust and vinyl speed adjust controls for all the control you need. The jog wheels The Pioneer DJ XDJ-XZ jog wheels It’s just too many buttons with too many functions, in my opinion, and it just feels to me Pioneer DJ isn’t upgrading it because it’s afraid of offending DJs that have been using CDJ’s since the start. I have said this a thousand times, and I will say it a thousand times more: i wish Pioneer DJ would finally simplify their loop workflow and adopt a more intuitive approach. There also buttons to call up stored loops and cut/double your loop. The looping features on the XDJ-XZ are classical Pioneer DJ: loop in & loop out buttons, a re-loop/exit button, and the instant 4 beat loop button. Pioneer DJ XDJ-XZ – the decks Looping features Pioneer DJ XDJ-XZ looping controls The pads are not as high-end as on the DDJ-1000 (more on that later) but they are qualitative enough. In other words, you get the best of both worlds: a CDJ-like deck layout with the added versatility of 8 performance pads per deck. These are basically a combination of what you find on the CDJ-3000 and the DDJ-1000. Let’s dive in! Pioneer XDJ-XZ Media Player Features & functionalities The decks Still, the screen does its job perfectly well and serves its purpose. It’s good enough for sure, but this being 2021, (or even 2019 when it was launched), it’s reasonable to expect a more advanced screen to be fitted. It’s big, but that’s hardly surprising considering it has a 4 channel mixer onboard and full-sized jog wheels. The unit is, as expected, well build and solid. The Pioneer DJ XDJ-XZ media player is the latest professional media player from Pioneer DJ, delivering a complete DJing solution in a compact package: 2 CDJ-style decks, a fully-featured DJM-style mixer, and plenty of inputs and outputs.
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