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Average rating:
4.1 out of 5
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I owned this thing for over a year now. It is a great machine. People like DBX and PulseKraptor, should begin to smoke something... I don't want to know if the DJX is better than this or that... The DJX is costing 189$ in the US... What can I say... Ribbon controller, Knob assign, Cutoff and Resonance knobs, great drum kits, great synth sounds (aside the GM ones), basic sampling capabilities, Multitimbral, MIDI in and out and a "61 NOTES SENSITIVE TOUCH KEYBOARD". If you use a sequencer like cakewalk with the related studio panels, you can trully make something good out of it. The low cost of the DJX enabled me over the months to buy a MU15 (xg sound module) and a FS1R (FM-Formant sound module). I was able to play those new devices via the DJX. In a few days I will receive the CS6X...Will I get rid of my DJX ? No way. It will stay in my set up, I like this keyboard and even if it's only for the drum kits and the synth sounds... By the way a synth like the CS6X cost nearly 8 times more !!! So I will give the DJX a big 5.
I almost forgot...I read somewhere "thin sound". The DJX has also a line out that enable you to plug the DJX in a GOOD sound system, exactly the same way you will normaly do with a keyboard without internal speakers costing much much more...You will notice a kind of a big difference.
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Any so called "synth" you can buy at Best Buy or something is going to be SHIT, I don't care what anyone says. I happend on this piece of crap when I was at that store and it only took me 20 seconds to realize that it was nothing but a trendy piece of shit meant for teenie boppers who want to think there cool because it's "dance" oriented, or whatever. I refuse to believe any professional would really use this thing. AND WHOEVER SAID THAT IT DOES BETTER THAN A VIRUS.ETC, HAS NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, HAHAHA, THATS FUNNY. Anyway, I give it a 1 for the effort, a 0 for any real use.
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"Thinness: The DJX sounds can be somewhat thin. However, they're much nicer than some of the much pricier but still crap VAs out there (supernova, virus, etc.) ." Um.. the DJX is good for what it is. a DJ or Groove toy... but comparing it to a VA is like comparing a Super soaker to a military Assault Rifle....
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I've had my DJX for ages now. GM voices aside, it's got some really good sounds which you can always mess up with the cut-off and resonace. You also get an attack, release envelope so you can edit the voices to a limited degree. The drums on this are excelent also. 909's 808's and even a 606/505, plus a DJX kit (electronic sounding Tekno/ electro) and a B9000 (Hiphop/ breaks)kit. Theres some pretty usable drum loops too. The arpegiator is lots of fun, with loads of preset patterns but there's no ability to create your own. The DSP effects are very good with two types of distortion, four delays, two flangers, reverbs, phasers, and rotary effects. You can only use one DSP at a time though. The sampler is very limited. It's mono only and you can only record three seconds at a time with a total of 9 seconds.The quality isn't that great either. The preset styles are very cliche and give the impresion of a toy, which is a shame cos you can do some creative stuff with it. Making a song on its sequencer is abit of a no-go. Your better off putting short patterns into your sampler and looping them. So there you go. It's bassicaly a cheap source of high quality sounds. if that's something you need then this is recomended.
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Russell Miller what the fuck are you smokin? "DJX sounds better than crap VA`s out there like S/Nova and Virus etc"hahaha LOL that is so funny!
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