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I want to Upgrade from my DDJ-FLX4

I‘ve been actively using my FLX4 for about 12 Months and i‘m thinking of upgrading to an All-in-one system.

Are there any recommendations what i should go with?

Was thinking of going for the XDJ-AZ, they‘re the closest to a compact CDJ-3000 setup I can think of. I also want to use the System to Stream on Twitch and ofc to practice with or even take out to small raves.

Maybe ya‘ll have some better recommendations/advice or some info on the deck in general?

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u/Benji_EU — 14 hours ago

question!

hello! i’m new to djing and have had a few lessons. i booked a practice room, and wanted to ask: how would i go about connecting my laptop running rekordbox to the controller?

i also created a playlist using apple music within rekordbox. will it automatically read it?

please forgive me for any mistakes. i’m still learning!

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u/Prior_Trifle848 — 25 minutes ago
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Need help with my new FLX 4 and laptop power options for it

I have replaced my FLX 4 for the second time and when i play on the laptop with just the USB - C port the first 2-3 days it plays perfectly but then suddenly after the 4-5th day the USB-C stops supporting the laptop and i have to use the external power usb c, Why is this happening? at first i thought it was a flx 4 issue but now that i have used 2 diffrent FLX 4's on the same laptop i think it could be a laptop issue , Please please help my laptop is not even 1 year old and it has 16GB ram

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u/heller8731 — 4 hours ago

How do you set beat 1.1 in Rekordbox

I have a track with 4 beats of silence before the 1st beat. Rekordbox is telling me that the 1st beat is 2.1.

I want to move 1.1 to that point in the track but shifting the markers doesn't fix it. They move until they hit the down beat and then the numbers reset to 2.1 and counts the silence before as the 1st 4 beats.

It throws off the whole track when mixing in phrases and I can't find a solution anywhere when I thought it'd be a simple fix.

u/StillFlowWolf — 1 day ago

Headphone jack not working?

Not sure what’s going on. I have cue pressed and I have output going to my speakers but the cue button just stopped working/connecting to my headphones? The headphones work they have audio coming out of the speakers when I plug them in. It’s just when I plug them into the board and press cue they don’t work at all…. Anyone know what I can do to fix?

u/PersonalManager7704 — 1 day ago

weirdest occurrence ever

exported my USB today before a gig like i always do, double checked it - everything looked great, pull up to the set, plug it into the XDJ AZ they have, and suddenly music from my friends old rekordbox pops up?

i’ve never plugged this USB into their laptop or synced it to a different rekordbox. i’ve only ever exported my own music onto it from my iMac, rekordbox version 5. i’ve been using this USB consistently for about 7 months and it’s always been perfectly fine on any other equipment, but this was my first time using an AZ.

anyone have any insight on why this happened? the folders (none of which were mine) were also all empty. i was genuinely at a loss for how to even explain this to anybody there. someone please help!

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u/mrs-worldwidee — 22 hours ago

I’m making a Rekordbox, but with Gamification for Teaching

Rekordbox is a great tool, it’s the industry standard and it’s necessary to export to flash drives and be able to play on cdjs and Clubs.

But sometimes it might be a little too scary for beginners due the large amount of buttons, menus, configurations and it also does not come with any songs on it.

I’ve been a DJ for 7 years and a teacher for 4 and I’m also a game developer, so I decided to create a game that has the main functionalities from Rekordbox and even DJ Controllers MIDI connection, but inserts gamification and interactive learning on the process.

So even 100% beginners can learn step by step how to do some basic mixing in the Academy Mode and hopefully I’ll be able to replicate more and more functionalities and lessons into it.

The project is called DJ Life Simulator and this month I already sold custom game launchers to 3 big schools here in Brazil, that really liked the idea.

The game also has already over 4,000 downloads and is approaching 2,000 wishlists on Steam. We have over 30 partnered artists with licensed tracks in the game too.

So I’m here with you to hear your thoughts about which features are the most important to have in the game?

Which lessons are extremely important and would be very cool to learn interactively for me to add to the academy mode?

I know that a lot of gatekeepers are against gamification and don’t want djing to be any easier, but I try not to listen to them, since my target audience (Beginner DJs and DJ Schools) are heavily supporting the project, both finnancially and emotionally 🙂

u/Constant_Active_5551 — 3 days ago

SoundCloud link not working, any answers?

Hey all, I’ve been having a weird issue for a while that I’m hoping someone can help fix. I primarily use the SoundCloud link to stream my tracks to rekordbox, but a while back the link function just broke out of nowhere.

The problem is when I try to click the login button nothing happens, and when I click the free button it says no internet (This is what is shown in the video, sorry for shit quality). But, other links like Spotify and beatport work fine, the login button for those works as intended. So it seems like SoundCloud is the only one that has an issue. Any thoughts on what’s going on here or how to fix?

I just updated rekordbox to most recent version, and I have tried re installing in the past, hasn’t helped. I’ve also tried with chrome and Firefox as default browser, makes no difference. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Edit: I’m on windows 8, which I know is pretty old so maybe that is relevant?

u/CaseBeginning4719 — 3 days ago

Is there no way to sync file modifications to a USB?

I feel like this should be a pretty common use case for producing and DJing:

  1. You make a tune
  2. You render the tune to mp3 (or whatever)
  3. You add the tune to Rekordbox
  4. You analyze, tag, and add cue points
  5. You sync the tune to your USB so you can play it out
  6. You tweak the mixdown later and re-render the tune
  7. You sync your USB
  8. Rekordbox updates the mp3 on your USB with the new mixdown, because the file has been modified

Except step number 8 never actually seems to happen.

I don't want to have to delete tunes from my collection and reanalyze them and retag them and add all the cues and stuff back to them again, and go and add them back into playlists I had them in. I want Rekordbox to just... update the damn files on the USB, since the files have been modified.

Is there no way to do this currently? Am I missing something?

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u/BroadRaspberry1190 — 2 days ago

Quick Question

So when I am mixing on my computer everything sounds fine, but then mixing on my friends laptop, all the songs sound like they’re in a different key. I am not using key sync on either device. Though I did try key sync on the laptop to see if that was the issue, yet it sounds even more out of key with that on.

Is there a setting in rekordbox somewhere that he may have on that’s causing this?

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u/SubstanceMysterious2 — 3 days ago

Record Mix With Rekordbox, DDJ-400 & OBS Without Hearing CUE

I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to recording using OBS. Maybe this question could be posted in OBS forum. Anyway, in case any one has suggestions I'll ask here.

I've been using OBS on a Mac to screen capture/record a mix. It's worked well previously in that I can't hear what I'm cueing up. For some reason lately something has changed and I don't know what it is? Now when I record I can hear what I'm cueing up in the recording.

A while a go I was going to use Blackhole plugin to route audio, but discovered I could just do it in OBS.

I'm using Beatport streaming, as I have done with previous recordings without issues.

Anyone had experience or suggestions with this?

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u/adrianamos — 3 days ago

Rekordbox not showing history since updated latest version

I can see my history in the old version on my old USB which I still bring to my gigs (I plug both in) but the USB I add all the latest tracks in and that is using the latest version , … I see nothing , anyone have any ideas?

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u/discoish — 2 days ago

LAG di Rekordbox

Salve a tutti , espongo il mio problema

Uso un macbook air m2 16gbRam con una flx4.

Ieri durante un compleanno ha iniziato a laggarmi il pc ma come programmi aperti avevo solo rekordbox. Inizialmente il cursore andava a scatti e dopo un po sembrava non dare segni di vita.

Delle cose volevo puntualizzare:

Il problema si è posto solo durante il momento del ballo ( quindi canzoni più spinte ). Una volta terminata la parte danzata e sono passato a musica d’ascolto mi è andato tutto tranquillo.

Sempre durante il momento del ballo capita che rekordbox cambi da solo i bpm di brani in riproduzione , senza che io tocchi nulla. Tutti i brani li analizzo in modalità ‘Normale‘ .

Vi ringrazio in anticipo

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u/IllInevitable5451 — 3 days ago

Feeling lost trying a hybrid setup

Hello everyone,

I’ve been DJing a few times as an opening act for noise, ambiant, shoegaze, or black gaze shows and was considering going hybrid.

What I’m actually thinking about is having Ableton on the side, and using it to enrich tracks with drums or bass lines, sending midi to a hardware synth and have a live part in sculpting the sound.

I’ve tried using Ableton link but it prevents from using key sync, which is an important tool for me considering the melodic aspects of what I’m playing. So I was thinking about a basic midi clock but there are still unanswered questions, and I would love to have feedback from anyone having tried the same. FYI I’m usually preparing my sets on my gaming windows pc and playing them on my laptop with a DDJ grv6 at the venue).

Here’s an exemple of the workflow I’m looking for :

- track 1 playing in deck 1

- I’m layering some drums played directly in Ableton

- at some point I’m cutting the bass in track 1

- I bring back the bass with a midi clip sent by Ableton to my synth

- I’m beatmatching track 2 on deck 2

- I stop track 1 to make room for track 2

- I’m cutting my bass clip and drum clip to let track 2 drop

This is kind of « thinking out loud » so it might lack sense in some aspects but I think the idea is there.

What I don’t know : using a midi clock, do all decks have to be permanently at the same BPM, is there such thing as passing over the master status from one deck to another ?

Is there anything I should know about considering setup complexity and stability ?

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u/DonMendelo — 3 days ago

Clarification on Rekordbox Unlock

Hi everybody, I know this is probably a common question but I'm a bit confused and would really appreciate if someone could spell the answer out for me clearly. I'm looking into learning to DJ as a hobby. I don't have any intention of making a career out of this, just DJing for house/block parties hopefully. I understand the FLX4 is a newer version of the 400, is there any difference in the type of rekordbox features they unlock? I understand the FLX4 is the only beginner being sold currently that unlocks performance mode but does that mean you can no longer unlock it from an older DDJ 400?

I'm looking to buy a used controller and from what I can tell on kijiji and FB marketplace nobody wants to sell the FLX4 for under $450cad even though I could buy a brandnew one for $450cad off amazon, the DDJ 400 I have been able to consistently find for 300-400 which is what I would prefer to spend anyways, would I really be trading major features in comparison to paying that extra $50 + tax for the FLX4? Maybe I'm being too cheap but from what I understand so far they're essentially the same performance and features wise.

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u/mypupp — 4 days ago
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Really slow track loading in Link mode

Hey folks!

I'm experiencing an issue loading tracks when in Link mode. This problem appears to have started since upgrading to the latest firmware (v1.30).

If I use the AZ in Software Control mode, it works absolutely fine, and also loading tracks from USB is pretty much instantaneous.

I swapped out the USB cable from my laptop, but this hasn't made a difference. I didn't expect to, seeing as there doesn't seem to be an issue using Software Control.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue, or have any ideas how to resolve it? Thanks :-)

u/Imaginary_Double5 — 5 days ago

Tag loses focus when updating meta

So when j change anything in the library ie an artist name, the UI loses focus and skips a random number of tracks down the library. So the you have to scroll back to the track you are working on.

Fucking annoying.

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u/townerboy1 — 1 day ago

DDJ-RR won’t connect

hey my DDJ-RR controller won’t connect to rekordbox. I’ve changed my computer from a macbook air to a macbook pro with a M3 max chip. I don’t know if that’s the issue. I would be really sad if i can’t use my controller because i can’t afford a new one right now.

I feel like i’ve tried everything. :/

(sry if my english is bad, it’s not my first language)

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u/feliciathegoatyea — 2 days ago