Take away the Merge FX and the Jog Cutter and this is a completely standard software controller – think Reloop Mixon 4, Denon DJ MC7000, Numark NS6II (although generally those are higher specced, better units than this one). #Rekordbox pioneer dj freeWant help choosing gear? Grab your free PDF: The Digital DJ Gear Buyer’s Guide But it is far from a design classic, with the new dark grey plastic terrible at picking up every fingermark, and the stingy little performance pads and short pitch fader looking lost under those huge jogwheels. It’s big enough to impress, and away from the club, has most of the features most DJs would want, most of the time. Honestly, overall the controller looks fine. #Rekordbox pioneer dj fullThe jogwheels are excellent – a great feel to them, full sized. Sure it works, but the pair of them are a huge mismatch. They are capacitive, not mechanical, but that’s OK – they’re great to use, and have a useful jog position marker in the middle too.īut the very best jogs are only really important if you are a scratch DJ, and with seemingly much of the budget for the DDJ-FLX6 having gone on the jogs, that other essential part for scratch DJing – the crossfader – is very average on this unit. #Rekordbox pioneer dj proThe jogwheels are full-sized and excellent, with the classic Pioneer pro feel. In short, I cannot recommend the DDJ-FLX6 for Serato use, especially for beginners or people new to the software. The effects are confusing with Serato (more later), the pads are all labelled wrong, the Merge FX are very limited compared to Rekordbox (again, more later). So much so that for a beginner, Serato would be a poor choice to use here. #Rekordbox pioneer dj full versionEven better, the DDJ-FLX6 unlocks with the full version of Serato, and comes with a couple of juicy Expansion Packs (Pitch ‘n Time and FX).īut the truth is that this is really a Rekordbox controller, and in just about every area, Rekordbox is better implemented. Why? After all, on the face of it, this is great! Serato and Rekordbox are two of the biggest software platforms, and as beginners often don’t know what software they want to use, this gives them a choice. Now they’ve released a controller that works with both, and they are still going to get flak for it. They took a lot of flak for not making their DDJ-1000 controller for Rekordbox work with Serato (they eventually released a Serato variant, the DDJ-1000SRT). Wait, it works with Rekordbox AND Serato? (By the way, if you’re new to four-channel controllers like this and wondering how such a device can control four “decks” when it only has two physical decks of its own, there ARE two buttons to “switch” between each pair of decks, the left-hand two channels being controller by the left-hand physical deck, and likewise the right-hand.) The recent Hercules Inpulse 500 had similar outputs. Speaking of outputs, the DDJ-FLX6 has Master and Booth, although curiously both are RCA unbalanced, with no balanced jack or XLR outputs – presumably the engineers thought people may use the second set of outputs when livestreaming. Learn to DJ with Digital DJ Tips: The Complete DJ Course You do get to decide if the mic goes to the Booth outputs or not, though, which is a nice touch. The DDJ-FLX6 does have a mic input, but this is routed directly to the outputs so you cannot apply effects to the mic, for instance, or record the mic using your software’s built-in recorder. If the computer crashes, the music stops. It is a software-only controller, meaning you cannot plug in external equipment like CDJs, turntables, even a simple smartphone, to have any back-up music. But as far as build quality goes, it is nothing like the DDJ-1000 – apart from the jogwheels, which are great. The DDJ-FLX6 is a big controller, nearly as large as the Pioneer DJ DDJ-1000. The knobs, faders (including the short-throw pitch fader), and pads (one-colour, not RGB) are what you’d expect on a consumer controller – fine for home use, but on a controller this big it feels like they should be better. It is grey rather than black, but still plasticky. But as far as build quality goes, it is nothing like the DDJ-1000, being of the same ilk as the cheaper DDJ-200 and DDJ-400 controllers – this is definitely a consumer device. The DDJ-FLX6 (the name apparently stands for “flexible”, as in, it works with both Rekordbox and Serato) is a big controller, nearly as large as the Pioneer DJ DDJ-1000.
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