Gnome Tone wrote:What’s up folks.
How is everyone getting on with the DJS-1000?
I was curious what most people’s opinion are on the included content. Are there any decent R&B and electronic drum sets? Or is it mostly techno stuff? Lol.
I’m just about to buy one and was wondering if you can get a laidback swing using the sequencer or if it’s mostly mechanical. My goal is to record and loop real instruments- (guitars, bass, vocal effects, percussion). The machine seems to have a great workflow and I’m also doing some ambient type of music so I’m looking forward to how slowing tracks down very slow sounds with pitch.
I was looking at the MPCX but the workflow looks nicer on this box. I’ve got a lot of interesting samples of odd lengths I’d like to time stretch to make parts and songs out of so I hope this machine can do this.
Cheers.
Hey Gnome, the internal sounds are pretty sweet. Its got a little of everything. Mostly on the mellow sunnyside.
The sequencer is very liquidity and flowy. Quantize can be turned off for realistic drumming. Can be live recording or the 16 step sequencer which has parameter locks as well as swing. You can also nudge notes left or right, so you can get really loose with the drums. Couple of vids I saw on youtube, has a guy turning a mechanical drum pattern, into something more supernatural. It all shows on the screen like 16 lines horizontal and a bunch of colored squares scattered about. Though it is a 16 step sequencer, its really 64 steps to modulate across 4 scenes.
The DJS-1000 can loop. I don't wanna deprive you of the MPC X, which has a looper mode and beefier sequencer, just to throw that out. The DJS can run with the best of them though. You can make a song on the fly with its Live Sampling feature. But there is no song mode or any type of pattern chaining, you have to do that manually.
And YES, I wouldn't had bought one if it couldn't slow or speed up tracks. If the pitch is set to Wide, the range is -+100%. It timestretches like their CDJs, same science in sampler form. Sample time is limited to 64 seconds for each pad, so if you have an ambient sound playing less than that, then you good. More than 64 seconds it will cut off or not sound at all.
Its a very nice machine and well streamlined. It will feel foreign the first 20 minutes but it gets real easy, super user friendly.
Good luck on your choice between the X and the DJS. May the best machine find a home.