The CMX-3000 was Pioneer's second attempt to enter the market of rack-mountable dual deck CD-players. It’s handy to play tracks from a phone or tablet, but it’s easier and more efficient to use a USB flash drive. Even better it has Slip mode, although it doesn’t work as well as we’d like, as I’ll explain in a moment. Indeed, the fact it now has a crossfader and synchronisation and phase adjustment buttons means it’s a pretty good and free introduction to DJing in its own right. Sadly, there’s no ¼-beat or 1/8-beat buttons, but there are two other onscreen buttons that let you reduce or expand the size of a loop between a 1/128-beat loop to the rest of the track.

The CDJ-500S (also known as the CDJ-700S in the United States) released in 1997, was a smaller version of the CDJ-500. Other improvements to earlier versions included bigger, lighter displays; a 100 dots waveform display instead of the earlier 50 dots waveform; the ability to record loops into hot cue slots instead of just cue points. If you’ve created a 16-beat loop, for instance, entering Slip Mode and pressing a loop button will switch off the outer loop. As with similar CDJs, such as the CDJ-850, there’s a button for switching between Vinyl mode and CDJ mode.Released in 2004 and designed for professional use in clubs, it featured real-time digital video scratching, looping and instant hot cueing. Additionally, some can function as DJ controllers to control the playback of digital files in DJ software running on a laptop instead of playing the files on the CDJ. A New Dimension: The CDJ-3000 has landed | Evolved flagship multi player offers new world of creative possibilities - News - Pioneer DJ News".

In Australia, the DJM-3000 had been discontinued for sale in late 2006 but was re-released in June 2008 just for the MEP-7000. The Pioneer CDJ-400, CDJ-800, CDJ-850K, CDJ-1000, CDJ-900, CDJ-2000 and the latest model CDJ-3000 have a vinyl emulation mode that allows the operator to manipulate music on a CD as if it were on a turntable. We’ve suggested this to Pioneer, so hopefully we’ll be able to do this after a future firmware update.With additional creative possibilities for live re-mixing easily accessible via the new hot loop feature. This is a good selection of ports that provides users with a lot of flexibility, and although we’d like a digital coaxial output we didn’t miss it. 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.

These were both expensive to produce and had inherent short lifespan; as after a few plays the disc would wear-out and thus be completely unplayable. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. A brighter resolution on both raised jog wheel display and main display further enhance performance for DJs. 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.The player was a 19" rack mountable twin player type capable of playing media formats ranging from normal audio CD/CD-R/CD-RW to digital data files in MP3- and AAC-formats written on DVD's as well as USB-connected memorysticks and/or portable hard drives. The XDJ-1000 is completely reliant on digital media instead, which can be loaded from a USB drive or over a wired network from another XDJ-1000 or a Rekordbox-enabled computer. The icons are well designed, with buttons appearing as squares or rectangles that are decently sized and separated so that you have no trouble hitting the button you meant to hit when mixing. The CDJ-900 was placed below the Pioneer CDJ-2000, but above the Pioneer CDJ-850 and the Pioneer CDJ-350.