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Dj Acapella S House' title='Dj Acapella S House' />It makes sense to give first impressions of this unit against the Pioneer DJ CDJ 2. NXS, which is the player the SC5. Prime is gunning for, and which is a comparison that will most clearly demonstrate how Denon DJ has gone about its attempt to usurp the sitting giant in the pro DJ booth. So, we placed the Denon DJ SC5. Prime alongside the latest Pioneer DJ media player the CDJ 2. NXS2. Before even plugging it in, the most striking thing initially is the similarity, not the difference, between the units. Frankly, barring the brand name, the non DJ would be hard pushed to spot anything. They both have a big, raised platter. They both have a decent sized screen, raised at the back the Denon DJs screen is slightly bigger. Theyre both black. Theyre almost exactly the same size the Denon unit appears wider, but its only because the raised section at the back is full width, whereas the NXS2s raised section is narrower the Denon unit is also slightly higher at the back. And they both have those slightly kitsch, oversized silver feet, that in modern media players dont actually do an awful lot apart from presumably nod to a continuity of function between digital players and record decks. Side by side, theyre actually more or less exactly the same size, but the SC5. Heck, when Denon DJ first gave me a hands on with these units back in December 2. SC5. 00. 0 Prime has no CD slot These are purely digital players, designed to work with computers, software and portable media storage such as USBs and SD cards. The big differences. Look a little more, and apart from the styling differences Denon DJ has gone for square cue and playpause buttons, not round the grips on the sides of the jogwheels are different, there are only three big notable breaks in layout from pro media player convention The Denon DJ player has its USB and SD card slots at the front of the unit, tucked in where the CD slots are on Pioneer CDJs, and set back to keep USBs and SDs out of harms way. The SC5. 00. 0 Prime has performance pads situated under its platter, positioned where any controller DJs would expect to find them, albeit in a single row of eight plus associated controlfunction keys in a smaller row above, as opposed to two rows of four, which is of course the controller paradigm these replace the less user friendly hot cue buttons, laid out top left and vertically on the Pioneer playerThe SC5. Prime has two sets of analoguedigital audio outputs at the back, not one these and the inconspicuous layer button to the left of the screen being the only clues to the fact that it is capable of simultaneously playing two tracks through two channels of a mixer, meaning a pair of these give you full four deck playback something, of course, enjoyed by controllersoftware DJs for many years. If anything, the Denon player appears overall simpler and cleaner than the Pioneer the removal of Pioneer DJs all of a sudden convoluted feeling looping and legacy cueloop memory sections in favour of simpler controller type loop functions, plus a cleaner area around the screen the Denon DJ unit has half the buttons of the CDJ 2. NXS in this area, in conjunction with the moving of the media slots out of sight, mean that even with the new performance buttons, the Denon DJ unit somehow appears a little less intimidating. More on this later but as youre going to see, actually the biggest innovations are associated with workflow and usability, not the somewhat cunningly similar layout. Pin Serial Connector on this page. Integrating the SC5. X1. 80. 0 mixer. Better together the SC5. X1. 80. 0 add up to more than a sum of their parts. While the SC5. 00. Prime players work fine with any DJ mixer that has four channels, of course, assuming you buy a pair, they are designed to work with the X1. Prime mixer, as we say, the subject of a separate review. Apart from the cue lights on the mixer corresponding with the deck colours on the SC5. Prime units nice, direct tempo information from SC5. BPM and Sweep FX. The On Air mode illuminates actives decks when channel fader is open, and were you to have more than two SC5. Setting up. The contents of the box. One of the items is a USB extension cable, for plugging in hard drives or other items which wont easily reach one of the on unit sockets. In the box, as well as the unit itself youll find a network cable used for linking two players together, or the player to a Denon DJ X1. Prime mixer, a USB cable and separate extension, two good quality RCA cables for linking your players two decks to the mixer, a cleaning cloth, an instruction manual, and a power cable. Once plugged in, you connect the RCA outs to your mixer two spare channels needed to use the players two decks and insert a USB drive or SD card into one of the SC5. Primes media slots. The unit actually has three USBs and one SD slot one of the USB slots and the SD slot are on the front as mentioned earlier, and there are two additional USB slots on the back. DJs bring their own too or as we did, gotta be honest charge your i. Phone in the back while DJing from a USB plugged into the frontSetting your preferences. While there is no need to set any preferences at all to get started, there are several settings panels available to you easily from the unit. Pressing and holding the View buttons will open the Preference and Utility pane. Talking through the Preferences pane, you have three sections Preferences menu Playback. Track Start Position At first cue point, or the start of the track. Default Speed Range The pitch fader reach, also adjustable on the players Pitch Bend buttons, using Shift. Sync Mode Sync to the nearest bar, sync to the nearest beat or just match tempo. CueLoop Quantise Values from 18th of beat to a full bar. Paused Hot Cue Behaviour Whether hot cues will trigger a track when it is paused, or play the track the temporary cue is always a cue playDefault Loop Size One beat through 1. Smart Loops Neat one this. Zuma Deluxe Unlimited Play there. When looping manually it ensures the loop snaps to a recognised beat division eg two, four beats. This works independently of Quantise settings. Time Format Dynamicstatic. If you alter the pitch control, the effective played timeremaining time in a track will naturally change. This decides whether that value shows on the time elapsedleft display, or whether that number instead shows the true time elapsedleft. Track End Warning You can choose from none to 9. Lock The Playing Deck Stops you being able to load a track onto a playing deck by mistake. Needle Lock Stops you being able to search through a track by swiping its waveform without pausing the deck first. Pad Lock Turns off all the pads underneath the jogwheel, dumbing it down closer to a basic media player. The Preferences pane, accessed via the touchscreen. Exactly the same Preferences pane can be accessed in the Engine Prime software, to set everything ahead of time fear easy import on arrival at a venue. Preferences menu Library. Choice Of Key Notation Sharps, flats, Open Key and Camelot. This is actually great, because different DJs can choose what theyre used to Pioneer players use standard notation which is not as friendly to non trained musicians as Open Key or Camelot.