As far I can see, the only visible piece of metal is the single solitary fader stem. That's not meant as an insult, and perhaps 'extremely cost effective MIDI controller' is more flattering. Or if you need to mix immediately, you might have to purchase a new license, or find a crack.Measuring just 48x21cm, Discover DJ is indeed a cheap plastic controller. In most cases this simply isn't true at all, but in the case of ION's Discover DJ, "cheap plastic controller" is a very accurate but not at all derogatory description.SOURCE: ION Discover DJ mixer Scratch/Search switch.
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If LG were to make DJ gear, this would be in their Scarlet range.Measuring just 48x21cm, Discover DJ is indeed a cheap plastic controller. It certainly looks like nothing out there, unless you discount the Vestax Warlord concept piece of course. All positive reviews 19170. How are ratings calculated See All Buying Options.
The mixer section is decidedly thin on controls, but does have just enough to give you the minimum of features for party rocking with only brief recourse to the screen. This won't withstand the rigours of punishing club use, but that isn't the intended market anyway.Despite the size, the emphasis is all on the jog wheels. Thankfully, the lightness of Discover DJ doesn't seem to reflect the sturdy feel. As far I can see, the only visible piece of metal is the single solitary fader stem.
In pause mode, they scrub through the track quickly Obviously, this mean that spinbacks in the truest sense aren't possible - you can only rewind or fast-forward while your fingers are on the wheels. The very moment that you let go, the audio is re-engaged at the normal speed. The wheels controls the audio extremely well, but only when touched. They're very smooth running and entirely touch sensitive - the top, sides and even the spindle.
The overall performance and response of the jog wheels is outstanding for a cheap controller, and certainly more than good enough for casual play and for beginners too.Here's a clip to show how well Discover DJ's jog wheels perform:When squishing big DJ products down into a small metaphor, something has to give. But at this price, this is an observation rather than a criticism. I'm guessing it's a MIDI resolution thing, but when you drag or push the sound with the wheel, it takes on a warbling feel. The one downside is the quality of the scratch sound. The on/off touch method takes a little time to get used to, especially for juggling (which is easy to do on Discover DJ). With scratch mode off, the jog wheel will pitch bend nominally to around 8% but to a maximum of around 25%Despite the price, the wheels are excellent.
Not happy about missing this fundamental of DJing off at all.One final gripe - why is the USB cable hardwired?Oh.one last thing for the beginners reading this. You can of course do this on-screen, but it detracts a little from using the controller entirely hands on. Instead, you're lumbered with simple buttons to adjust the pitch in a pretty inexact way. And to aid the use of the supplied MixVibes Cross software, and to reduce reliance on your laptop, there is also a very simple track navigation and loading control.The one compromise to far for me is the lack of pitch fader. No line faders here I'm afraid, but I'm quite able to live without them. Discover DJ adopts the latter philosophy, leaving just the barest minimum to allow the basics of DJing.You get a crossfader (no fader curve but I'm told it's on the to do list), 2 band EQ with volume controls for channels and master out.
This is the Discover DJ edition though - cut down a little to suit the limited needs of the average buyer and tailored to work seamlessly with the hardware. Cross is the offspring of the original MixVibes DVS software - cross platform and reworked using the years market intelligence to make Cross as good as it can be. And that software comes in the shape of MixVibes Cross. The simplest will do - I used Native Instruments' Audio 2 DJ.As Discover DJ is just a MIDI controller, it needs something to control. This is so you can plug into your sound system and still use headphones for track cueing.
Put it this way - if you can't mix with all this visual assistance, then you never will.But if you still struggle to beatmatch 2 tracks, there is also the magic sync button. It feels almost like overkill, as you get individual full track views, individual scalable track views (that can jump or scroll - a very nice touch) and matched beat waveforms right across the top. Mixing and creativity is the order of the day here, with a huge amount of screen real estate given over to waveforms. More on that later.The screen is broadly split in half - deck and mixer controls at the top and library at the bottom, but you can switch this is you like. For example, the lack of pitch control is made up for with full pitch sliders for both decks. All features in the hardware are replicated on screen, and in some ways are enhanced.
The resolution is a ridiculously small 0.01% with a single mouse click - across ALL ranges. Firstly, the pitch ranges are 4, 6, 8, 16, 32 and 100% and selectable per deck (that's unusual). I spent a very happy morning going through a folder of favourite tracks and had zero issues locking beats and riding long mixes.On the subject of mixing, you need to be able to cue up your tracks properly, and Cross allow you to not only cue up the tracks you've loaded into the channels, but you can also preview tracks in your library without loading them, leaving your decks happily playing away.Having looked at the deficiencies of the hardware from a pitch point of view, Cross more than makes up for the lack of a good physical control. It worked OK for me, and can be manually tweaked if you like, but it's hard to beat your hands and ears.
This is generally done pretty accurately, and is vital to the success of the looping function.This works in 2 ways - you can manually define a loop, or assuming that the BPM has been calculated accurately you can make instant loops at the press of a single onscreen button. ☓0% still sounds good.Hybrid: This keylocks to around 30% (the comfortable and safe range) and then ups the key proportionally.When you load a track into Cross, it analyses it to create the waveforms and to set the BPM. This uses the élastique stretching algorithm and does quite a good job too.
Preparation is key, so you should make sure all your files are correctly tagged. A nice touch.The key to any good DJ software is how well it handles your music. But thanks to the extensive keystroke editing in Cross, you can assign hot cue triggering to to your keyboard on a deck basis.These cues appear visually on the wavesforms too and are also auto-saved to the track for future use as well. Setting them is very simple - either while playing or fine tuned setting on the waveforms. The ability to click in these measures rather than turn a physical knob makes for some nice creativity.While there are no controller on Discover DJ itself, Cross gives you 3 hot cues per track.
Being able to assign just about everything via keyboard control gives you a highly customisable experience too.Some things took a little getting used to - the way the jog wheel works on a touch basis, and the lack of pitch slider are the main ones. But this old hack was very pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install, the simplicity of use and overall performance. This method lacks the frills of iTunes of Cross sessions, but it is effective for instant loading of supplied disks or USB media.I could go into the nitty gritty of library functionality, but for a £99 controller, you can take it as read that Cross gives you more control over your music than you could ever need.You might reasonably expect a controller of the price range to perform less well than more expensive offerings. And searching is easy - you can filter out across your entire music collection, or selectively search within popular tags.Should you prefer a more ad hoc approach, you can also work with your drive and files directly. You can even have different "sessions" that you can predefine with internal playlists - and save them out for loading in later. This gives you a head start on speed as all analysed waveform and BPM data is saved internally.
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