What to play and when to play it is what makes a good DJ, not the snares lining up Use whatever you want.Ī sync function won’t prevent people playing shit tunes. Good DJing is selection, it’s timing and pacing, it’s creative mixing, it’s the art of weaving songs together. Big-name DJs are already weighing in on Twitter with their thoughts – check out two highlights below: A pretty penny – especially considering you’ll probably want a set of them to really use all of these features in a setup.Įditorial Update: As expected, the debate rages on across the web about how adding sync features is the best/worse idea ever. Obviously the first thing on most of our minds: how much is this kit? The suggested retail price is $2,399 – about $500 more than the CDJ-2000 Mk1s are selling for around the internet. the new wireless Rekordbox streaming like we saw on the XDJ-AERO.the slip features – which allow a user to scratch, looproll, or reverse without affecting the actual playhead time.the development of a new beat sync and quantization engine – yes, this looks like it does make synchronization very possible on CDJs.While the new players are seemingly chockfull of new ideas and improvements the three major new features on the CDJ-2000 Nexus that we’re most interested in and that warrant a bit of discussion include: Read on for more details and the official Pioneer release videos featuring Eats Everything, Kissy Sellout, and Laidback Luke. As teased earlier this week, the new Pioneer CDJ-200 Nexus units have dropped with a brand new feature set, including the expected wireless Rekordbox functionality, tempo and beat synchronization, color-based key indicators, advanced slip modes for loops, reverse, and scratching, as well as a slew of other improvements.