Hey it's Joey from Digital DJ Tips,
and welcome to Gear Prophecy.
This is our series where we speculate
on DJ gear that we think
might be on the horizon.
Now, this is all conjecture,
we have no insight information,
no details, no specifics,
we don't even know if any
of the kit featured in the
series will even materialize.
This is just us having a bit of fun
over at the Digital DJ Tips headquarters.
Now, in this episode, you and
I are gonna do a little bit
of guesswork, and we're gonna take a look
at what might the Pioneer
DJ CDJ-3000NXS be like, hmm.
The CDJ-2000NXS and
CDJ-2000NXS2 have been the kings
of the DJ booth for the
past handful of years.
Go to any big club or
festival of the world over,
and chances are, the media
players that you're gonna find
in the DJ booth are
gonna be the CDJ-2000NXS
or the CDJ-2000NXS2.
Now, Denon DJ recently unveiled
it's SC5000 Prime Mega-Player,
and it's a strong contender
to the title held by the
CDJ-2000NXS and CDJ-2000NXS2.
Now, it's not hard to
imagine the folks over
at Pioneer DJ working day and night,
thinking of a new flagship mega-player
that would rival the SC5000 Prime.
Our friends from Japan rarely back down
from a challenge, after all.
So, what features might
a CDJ-3000NXS have?
Here's our wishlist:
First, we think a CDJ-3000NXS would have
a full complement of
eight hot cue buttons.
At the moment, the
CDJ-2000NXS2 has four buttons
with two selectable banks,
for a total of eight cues.
DJ controllers have had eight
performance pads per deck
for a while now, and we think
it's about time CDJs get them too.
The den on DJ SC5000 Prime
already has this on board,
and we're thinking Pioneer
DJ will want to catch up.
Second, we think a CDJ-3000NXS
would have expanded performance features,
to make use of all those new buttons.
That would include button
modes like slip loop
and beat loop, which are
already found on the XDJ-RX2.
One of the items on our wishlist is
to have more performance
features inherited
from Rekordbox DJ.
The new keyboard and key
shift modes would be able
to take full advantage of the expanded,
but in a layout, for example.
Third, a CDJ-3000NXS could potentially
have two deck operation on board,
letting you control two
decks using one CDJ,
kind of like how the SC5000
Prime lets you switch
between two deck layers.
Fourth, we'd like to see an update
to the center jog display,
which hasn't seen much
innovation from past CDJs.
A CDJ-3000NXS could have a high-res screen
that would display track
art and play head position.
Fifth, a CDJ-3000NXS might
have a new high-resolution,
multi-touch touch screen display.
The CDJ-2000NXS2 has the best screen
in the CDJ and XDJ line, but
it's still quite sluggish
and really isn't the sharpest around,
which are things you
wouldn't want to deal with
on a high-end, top shelf media player.
A better screen could also mean
an operating system spec book,
which might include multi-touch.
Multi-touch means that
gestures could make a debut
on the CDJ-3000NXS,
letting you swipe left and
right, apart from up and down
for more hands-on control of the screen.
Lastly, we think a CDJ-3000NXS
would be compatible
with a DDJ-XP1 grid pad controller.
That would allow DJs to
fully utilize the 16 hot cues
per track maximum that
rekordbox currently boasts,
letting controllerists and
performance-oriented DJs
do cue juggle routines with
a complementary controller.
If you could roll into the
club and plug in your DDJ-XP1
to a network CDJ-3000NXS setup,
that would really blur the lines
between controller laptop DJs and CDJ DJs.
So that's it for this
episode of Gear Prophecy,
I've got the full write-up over
at Digital DJ Tips website.
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My name is Joey, thank
you so much for watching.
I'll see you in the next
installment of Gear Prophecy.
Goodbye.
