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Average rating:
4.1 out of 5
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I ALREADY HAVE A DRUM AND BASS GUITAR MACHINE, AND I USE MY DJX TO DO ALL OTHER PHRASES. I HATE USING COMPUTERS TO MAKE MUSIC, ARE THERE ANY HARDWARE SEQUENCERS THAT I CAN USE INSTEAD OF CAKEWALK (ETC.)? I ONLY NEED SOMETHING THAT CAN SEND START, STOP, AND CONTINUE TO MY DRUM MACHINE AND HANDLE THE DJX PHRASES(16 TRACKS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!! I ONLY NEED ABOUT 6 AT MOST!!). I AM VERY BROKE, SO IF THERE ANY OLD OR CHEAP HARDWARE SEQUENCER THAT MIGHT SUPPORT THIS? IT CAN BE 20 YEARS OLD, AS LONG AS IT WORKS!! THANX,
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I thought the DJX was total shite at first, sort of a cheaper answer to Rolands groove crap. (Although without ROLAND we wouldn't have had house, trance, rave, etc. to bein with) But after playing with it, I think it's not only cheap, and cute, but actually usable. It really has a lot of features for the price. Even the list price is reasonable-and who the hell has ever paid list. lo-fi sampling, Ribb-controller, decent action, knobs, scratch sequencer, gloriously tacky GM voices, decent loops, and its a PSR!! P.S. I've been making electronic music for ten years and guess how old i was when I started - 14. So anyone who "disses" the younger guys - Screw Off. I once met a 13yr old who was using a MOOG Mg-1 to trigger samples from an old school akai sampler, and he rocked! He knew more about groove at 13 than "Adrian" the runaway "euro-guy" probably ever will. actually....when it comes to techno & dance.....we would all still be hitting the auto-tune button on our pre-midi analogs trying to get the sync to stick, if it weren't for the Japanese (i.e. Roland/Yamaha)
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Damn, you guys! Seems like everyone wants their review to be the "end all" final statement for the collective DJX reviews. For the love of Satan, calm down! Anyway, I'm not going to be complaining about how the $6000 setup MIDI heads keep complaining about how bad this thing sux, that's their problem if they hate it. So I finally got one of these...I must say, this thing is nice. When I commented earlier about how the Reso didn't do shit for the sound, let me correct myself. When I brought this thing home, I made just about every tone I'd been dreaming of. In fact, I did get that Reso thing to work. A cool setup: Voice #43, "Fish 303", with "Hard Distortion" DSP effect on (BTW: these effects are swell...), and I set the Assign knob to "Decay". With the arpeggiator on, this does not sound too much unlike a sqeualing nasty 303. Just my opinion. Also pad sounds are very nice. The piano sounds definitely blow, this thing was not made for them. General MIDI voices are the same as another PSR unit that my brother owns, nothing astonishing. The sampler is kind of a cool feature, my only complaints about it being 1.) too low of a sampling rate 2.) not enough banks and 3.) can't set the BPM to match the sample. But hey, for $320, what the hell else can you want? The 6-track sequencer isn't too shabby, only I wish that it could loop instead of do just "songs". The ribbon controller is awesome, I usually use it for Turntable, Pan, Mod, or Arpeggiator Speed. The DSP effects I mentioned before are great. You can't adjust the speed or depth or anything like that of them, but they sound really nice. Distortion is especially useful, particularly for beefing up drumlines. My favorite thing to do with this thing is to turn the arpeggiator on and screw with the filter stuff. Fun shit. Oh yeah the part control is what separates the rhythm section from the shitty keyboards in this price range's rhythms, you can take the bass drum, snare, etc. out or add filter and effects to them. Well that's about all I've figured out so far, I only got it on Thursday and it's Sunday night. I've practiced with my band with this thing. Vocalist loves it, he's absolutely obsessed with the pad sounds, and my guitarist hates synthesizers but loves the drum beats and sampler. I put a groove off an old record onto the sampler and the one from "Scentless Apprentice" by Nirvana on it at the same time, had some fun with that. That's really what this is good for, both doing samples + hip hop type groove stuff and also to make squeaky fun with the arpeggiator and filters. Lots and lots of fun. This unit can really stand alone as compared to most stuff, though I wouldn't recommend (I use a 606, turntable, etc. with it). Generally an all-purpose unit, overall good quality, design, etc. It's OK that they cut the few corners they did, because the bottom line is bang for the buck. Swallow your pride and buy this gorgeous shark-blue (as opposed to mundane black) unit. I will post again if I find something else cool.
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jesus... never before have i seen enthusiasm in a keyboard result in such aggressive eruptions between "music-making classes". you people are idiotic - find something else to bicker about. the DJX is a good little tool - nothing huge and amazing, just a good tool for some types of music. There seem to be DJX-leagues forming, or something. just more signs of the degrading society of modern youth. idiocy.
- jake enk.
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what the fuck dude? most of us who want this thing are broke anyway and need something that will do the shit we want to do. BMWs? i don't think so. i'm broke as a joke and it's people that have to talk like you're talking that only make guys new to techno like me feel bad about trying to get started.
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