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The Yamaha DJXII is in NO WAY a professionaly keyboard - but it does come pretty close. AND IT IS FUN AS HELL!!!
A few months back at guitar center, I was with my dad and they had one for $80 used. We decided to buy it and it turned out to be great fun. We even used it as backing tracks for songs on our cd.
Ups: Many patterns usefull for live. CUTOFF and RESONANCE knobs those are totally awesome i mean really. The effects can be usefull - Echo is nice to "double" the beat and the ring modulater is like WOAH ! I bet i couold do a whole live performance on some banks though just using cut and res and distortion. The sounds - well some are okay - i havent really used them solo. The drums are actually pretty good many of them.
Downs - Cut and Res cannot be on keyboard. THe keyboard itself is NON-VELOCITY or AFTERTOUCH SENSITIVE and IT IS HARD TO PLAY. The effects although sometimes usefull have major problems. Many of them disort, and have clicks (okay, most have clicks or distort). There is also no arpegiator i have no idea why. The sounds all seem to sounds the same and the GUITARS ARE WORTHLESS ya hear? The sampler is worthless, its like 6 seconds of 22k, 8-bit mono sampling !!!Also the worst thing about this keybaord (not to mention that it doesnt send midi) is that YOU CANNOT CREATE YOUR OWN PATTERNS. I belive if you setup the midi with some yamaha program and do all this sh!t you can load some in but you CANNOT like the roland d2 (or other grooveboxes) SIT AT THE KEYBOARD AND ENTER YOUR IDEAS!!!
Overall, i'd say if you find this keyboard for under $150 buy it without thinking twice. Otherwise try it and if you like to play live it may be a really cool. It does work okay recording (RCA outs amp is lil noisy) but its not so good for that. Dont be fooled by its look though - taking some activator loops and messing with the cut and res and fx at the same time can really surprise you.
DJ XSOUNDZ
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