PIONEER CDJ-1000 MK3 DJ-WORKSTATION

Product Information

The CDJ-1000 (and its reincarnations) became a popular tool for dance clubs and DJs, and is currently the most widely used DJ-style CD deck in nightclubs. Certainly, with the XDJ-1000 you can create playlists for sets, create hot-cues and loops and then export your tracks to a USB flash drive for use on a pair of CDJ-2000s. The Pioneer CDJ series have revolutionized DJing and tempted many vinyl purists over to the digital dark side. From there you can use the XDJ-1000’s touchscreen to find tracks on the Rekordbox computer and use it as remote track storage.

Like the CDJ-800, CDJ-850 and CDJ-900, and unlike the CDJ-1000 and CDJ-2000NXS, the XDJ-1000 lacks jog wheel tension adjustment, so you have to make do with the standard tension. The XDJ-1000’s large, seven inch pressure-sensitive touchscreen is laid out to good effect, with menu buttons occupying the left-hand side and top of the screen, specific screens appearing in the middle and items you’d expect to see on a CDJ, such as a long waveform, pitch range and the position of cue points are positioned at the bottom. The Adam Hall DJ Laptop stand is great for when space is limited within a DJ setup or to create a compact mixing area.The CDJ-500 was the first Pioneer DJ player to have a Jog Dial, (although Technics SL-P1200 was the first ever to feature a jog dial in 1986), allowing for cueing of the CD unlike rack-mounted CD players that were common at the time.

You get used to the way the screens work, especially because almost everything is done and accessed through the screen, but it can be confusing initially. CDJ-3000 supports FAT, FAT32, exFAT,and HFS+ file systems, but does not support NTFS or macOS GUID partitioning. Crafted from high-quality polycarbonate material, this cover combines durability with a sleek and transparent design, allowing you to keep an eye on the deck’s controls and display. At the time of writing there is no HID support for Traktor, but there is HID support for Serato DJ from version 1.

Even better it has Slip mode, although it doesn’t work as well as we’d like, as I’ll explain in a moment. Leisuretec are Trade Distributors of Professional and Commercial Audio, Lighting, Video, Special Effects and Ancillary. If a loop was enabled at 02sec, for example, and leave it for 1 minute, this would then disengage the loop, jumping to 1:02 as if the user had never engaged the loop. Because all of our items go through a full inspection, get serviced (if required), PAT tested for electrical safety, deep cleaned and all come with a warranty. After getting used to the turntable more, I'm enjoying the buttons on the X1 controlling deck A less and less.

The XDJ-1000 has two USB ports, one a type-A port for connecting USB flash drives, smartphones and so on, and a type-B USB port for connecting your XDJ-1000 to PC for use as an audio interface and MIDI controller. Furthermore, the MK3 used a newer SD media while the earlier incarnations used MultiMediaCard/MMC as a memory card format.Press the Slip Mode button and the long waveform at the base of the screen is again replaced by a set of loop buttons in the range is 1/8-beat to 1-beat. The DJ Stand can hold two CDJ’s /1210’s and 19" mixer plus space for laptop or monitor speakers, Hidden mountings and cavities for comfortable cable routing. The CDJ's also allow you to set cue points so you can quickly jump the CD back to a set point at any time.