The R1 is compatible with our latest software, which is called remotebox. It basically turns your iOS device into a wireless controller for the R1
so you can control most of the controls on here completely wirelessly from your iPad or iPhone.
You can download it from the App store for free. Once you’ve downloaded it just connected it to the built in WiFi on the R1.
If you go into your WiFi settings, to find out the WiFi networks name hold down utility and then select WLAN info.
SSID is the name so we have ‘XDJ-R1 204’ hit back, scroll down and then password. That will tell you the password there obviously so just use that to connect on the iPad.
Once you’ve connected open remotebox, this WLAN light will light up to show you it’s connected.
Then you’ll see the home screen of remotebox, you have the R1 split into sections, a help screen with a quick start guide and a license agreement
as well as a settings section that we’ll get to in a moment.
If we start by going into USB BROWSE, here you can browse everything on the USB and you can see different categories here and the list just here.
We can go through those and find a track we want. Then when we click on a track we have three options here.
So we have load 1 and load 2 which obviously are used to load a song to deck 1 or deck 2.
And we have a tag list…
If we hit that it will add that track to a playlist, which we can use essentially as a live playlist so we can cue up a track that we want to play next or throughout the night.
As well as that tag we can see all of our playlists,
We can create playlists in remote box and edit them, so if I click on a playlist I can hit edit
and I can delete tracks or I can hit the plus button here and add more tracks.
The tick appeared so it’s going to be added. Hit done and it’s now on the playlist.
Hit done to finish editing that playlist as well and it will update. So if we go back to our track we can also hit info and we have more information on the track.
So if I load it to deck 1, it’s going to start playing automatically.
If I hit deck 1 you can now see the deck screen, we’ve got deck 1 and deck 2 and a small mixer section in the middle.
We’ve got the track information at the top, the BPM information and the tempo control. The pitch is written there.
We’ve got this scrub bar. You can touch and drag to get to any point within the track. It’s kind of similar to the needle search on the CDJ-2000nexus.
We’ve got play, pause and cue buttons and the plus and minus here for really fine pitch adjustment so it’s just 0.02 of a percent as it’s a lot more accurate that using the touch screen.
The hot cue and sample section works exactly like it would on the hardware.
We’ve got a couple of videos covering both of those if you want to check those out.
And a unique feature to remotebox is the loop cutter, it’s basically the auto beat loop that’s on the R1 only you can jump to any beat division instantly.
You haven’t got to scroll through per timing so you can hit 1 for a 1 beat loop, jump to an 1/8th, 1/16th beat, 1/2th beat loop and then touch it again to turn it off.
So that’s the deck section there.
We can then go onto the FX section, and there is obviously 1 per deck as well.
On the R1 we have the beat FX here and the sound color FX so what we can do is select a sound color FX and a beat FX and we can use this touch pad to activate both FX at once to create really interesting different FX.
We can move our finger left and right to change the beat timing so that’s the echo and we have up and down to change the sound color so we can adjust the filter like that so we can filter an echo.
We’ve got this hold button, if you hit the hold then touch the pad it will keep that effect held there so if you want to use one of the EQs or something on another deck you can use that to keep the effect active.
We have a level depth, basically the overall wet and dry of the effect and then we have a tap button here to change the BPM of the beat FX.
You can tap it to tap in your own BPM or you can hold it down to go to the automatic BPM, which is on the track.
So the FX XY pad is unique to remotebox and is something that you can’t get on the hardware obviously.
So that’s that section there. Next we have the mixer. As you can see on the deck and FX page we’ve got the EQ controls, trim and the faders.
If we hit mixer we then have all of the mixer controls so you have the headphones, faders, EQs and then levels, auxiliary and microphone as well.
For all of these controls just touch and drag exactly as you’d imagine. The EQ controls as well, if you double tap them it will snap back to 12 o clock.
If you bring the bass out of a track, you can double tap and it brings it straight in.
If you’re using an iPhone the mixer section is split into three different parts because it’s a smaller screen.
We have a fader section, we have the isolator section and then the in out, which is basically the headphone control, the master, the booth and the aux and mic controls as well.
So the final part of remotebox is the settings and these are just a basic list of settings to control the way remotebox interacts with the R1.
Load lock and needle lock will prevent you from loading a track and scrubbing through a track while it’s playing.
The platter will still work however the scrub bar on the deck screen will not work when needle lock is on.
Link with XDJ-R1 basically turns off automatic linking.
Adjust knob acceleration is the sensitivity of the fader and EQ controls and initialize setting data just sets all the settings back to default.
Software takeover is like a safety net, remotebox and the R1’s controls are both independent so you could have a controller on remotebox for example, the mixer.
The fader could be at the very bottom but on the R1 it could still be at the top.
So with Software Takeover on if I was to jog that, just to prevent that from snapping back to full volume, I have to bring this fader to the position of that fader there before it will take over control.
So, now it’s working, but obviously until I get to that half way point where the fader is on remotebox this will have no effect.
With software takeover off, I can do the same thing again, if I bring the fader half way down, the second I touch the fader on the hardware. The remotebox fader is going to follow that position.
Software takeover, to summarise is kind of which is in control. If it’s on it’s remotebox, if it’s off it’s the R1 hardware. 001 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:31 .000 So as you can see remotebox does extend the features of the R1, it is not essential, you don’t have to have remotebox to use the R1 but it does massively extend its capabilities.