I carry my xp2 in my bag.
The XP1/XP2/SP1 work with the CDJ2000NXS2, XDJ1000MK2, and Tour1.
On the XP2,
Can control up to 4 linked players.
Everything at the top works except browser functions.
Pads control Hotcues, Beatjump, BeatLoop, and Slip Loop.
When connected to the XDJ1000MK2, you actually end up with more options than what are available on screen.
It’s kinda the one thing I hate about the cdj3000. I way prefer to use the pads on my xp2, but pioneer has no plans (at least per pulse on the forum) to add support for the xp2.
My issue with the XP controllers, they were never really built with Serato in mind at all, it’s almost an afterthought. Whereas the SP1 still works perfectly as a dedicated Serato controller.
I bought one then used a mapping file I found online to use with Serato, it annoyed the life out of me it wasn’t native. It’s taken until the LC-6000 to have a single deck Serato midi controller which is nuts.
I only got rid of the SC1000S in 2017 as I found it in the back of a cupboard. I bought it around 2007-ish if I remember? That thing was absolutely fantastic.
The “old” Denon design had something special, right? I will keep the MC6000 in good memories. Such a small yet capable beast it was! Almost like a Prime Go without the screen, but far more stuff squeezed on the surface, haha.
I still have my DN-2100F somewhere, it was built out of steel instead of plastic, with really tactile buttons and functional lights. I remember that when Pioneer started to take over the throne with their CDJ1000’s, many of us where sceptical because it was plastic, just like “fisher price” stuff…
Reese you and I went the exact same route except I also used the DNS-2000s with Traktor after the tascams failed. I still have my Tascam X9 mixer though.
A tabletop touch version of the DN-HS5500 would have gotten Denon DJ a lot more market share than they were stuck with back in their Japanese days. The 4500 I believe is just a rack mount & touch version, but the touch was janky and prone to getting damaged on them… and too small. Not a lot of people want a moving platter tabletop player, and, even if you were in the market for a moving platter, the 5500’s required you to drag or nudge the record itself very gently rather than the metal platter edge when the motor was running if you didn’t want to use the pitch bend buttons or ride the pitch fader. Not easy on a little 7" disc.
No one was stopping InMusic from doing a hybrid. And considering the grease issues on the Ms and the VL12 itself being problematic in a variety of ways, it was the obvious next step. I had threads and posts on a rough Prime hybrid way back on this forum. I’m not sure where they’re at now. Probably buried in now-hidden or archived portions of the forum. Anyway, Pulse follows this forum and has hit me up for ideas in the past. The reasons I didn’t help them out more explicitly then or become a Pioneer DJ tester was because 1) I wanted a job instead, 2) I didn’t want to buy CDJ-3000s, and 3) I’ve already posted most of what I think about Pioneer DJ gear on their own forum already.
It’s competitively-priced with new Technics, the SC6000M, and is cheaper than a Rane Twelve and a Denon DJ VL12 together. It’s also cheaper than a CDJ-3000. I think it will sell like hot cakes. There might even be the slight possibility of it becoming some kind of quasi nightclub install standard alongside the CDJ-3000s rather than people farting around with dvs boxes and cables.
