What's up everyone. This is Blake Moussa aka the Black Moose
And here I have the CDJ-3000's and the DJM-V10
And I'm going to show you guys the various ways on how to connect your decks over to recordbox. Let's check it out.
OK let's look at using Export mode. So simply you're using your computer as a glorified USB drive to your set.
Let's first of all look at the connections.
Connect your audio cable whether it's line out or the digital out and connect them to the line in or the digital in of the mixer.
In this example I'm using channels 3 and 4 on the DJM-V10
Now connect the LAN cables to your switch hub or wireless router and the other ends to your CDJs and mixer, if the mixer has that option.
Make sure you have a USB to ethernet adaptor for your computer if it doesn't have a LAN port, or if you using a router, connect to the router over Wi-Fi.
Now get onto Export mode in rekordbox.
Once you're connected, the link button will automatically pop up after a few seconds at the bottom left of the screen.
Click LINK and you'll be able to see that you're decks are linked.
You can now browse your library on your CDJs.
If you cannot find the LINK button make sure that you've turned off firewall and any antivirus software as that might be blocking it.
As you can see it's playing but there's no sound coming out.
I have the faders up. I've got the trim up.
Make sure you've selected the right source. I'll select this to line, and here we go.
[Music playing]
What I’ll also mention, make sure you've got your plan number set correctly.
You’ll need to disconnect the LAN cable in order to select the right player.
And that's pretty much it for Export mode.
Now let’s look at performance mode.
Here we’ll be using our decks to control the software.
Let's look at the first method which is CDJ aggregate.
First of all connect to audio cables to mixer and also connect the USB cables from each of your cdjs to your computer.
Now this next bit applies to Mac users.
Google up the CDJ model and add ‘driver’ at the end.
Get to the driver page and what you’ll notice is a CDJ aggregator tool.
Download that and install.
What this does it will combine both CDJs to an aggregate driver.
PCs do this automatically.
And here's the proof of it.
Pioneer CDJ/XDJ aggregate device.
So, let's head over to rekordbox. Make sure you're on Performance mode.
Head over to preferences, go to Audio and then select your aggregate device.
And BOOM
As you can see that it has been discovered and now you're able to select the deck of each player.
As you scroll on your CDJs it would replicate that on each screen and also the rekordbox screen.
Also check that you select the right source again on your mixer. I've selected line here.
If you still have your channels mixed up, check in the audio preferences is that your CDJs are sending the sound to the right channel.
The second method is to include the mixer.
Connect another USB cable to it.
With rekordbox open you'll be prompted to install an audio driver if you haven't done so.
By the way I’ve made a video on how to do this on a Mac so check that out.
What you need to do here is change the source to the USB or the PC icon on your mixer
Because now rekordbox is sending the audio directly to the mixer and you're using the CDJ's to control it.
And the third method is with Pro DJ Link.
So what I'm doing now is disconnecting the USB cables from the CDJ's
and check the LAN cables at connected to the switching hub.
Simply, everything is running on Pro DJ Link but the CDJs are still being recognised as a controller
which is pretty cool.
And these are the various connection methods in Performance mode.
There you have it guys. If you have any questions put them in the comments below
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