Pioneer XDJ-AERO: Wireless Controller for Pioneer Rekordbox! Amazing!

[DJ Highline]

Sorry, I can't get behind this one...Pioneer pricing aside (really $1400 for this ). First off for everybody going crazy about USB playback, there are quite a few all in ones that will playback from USB so this is nothing new. The ability to use Rekordbox to help manage it is a nice touch as well as the phone app to grid your music while you are out. The failing here is the concept of streaming music from a battery powered mobile device over Wi-Fi. Sorry there are just way too many things that can go wrong in that scenario. Never mind the idea of letting any idiot with a smart phone send you music that you know nothing about into your system. It would be one thing if the music was pushed to the controller and then the controller played it internally...but a continuously streaming application no thanks. And lets not even talk about the potential for hackers.

[DJNR]

Now I can finally play that guy's favorite song on his iPhone because he knows the entire club will love it. Thanks Pioneer.

Hilarious +rep


Personally, I don't see this thing taking off.

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Sorry, I can't get behind this one...Pioneer pricing aside (really $1400 for this ). First off for everybody going crazy about USB playback, there are quite a few all in ones that will playback from USB so this is nothing new. The ability to use Rekordbox to help manage it is a nice touch as well as the phone app to grid your music while you are out. The failing here is the concept of streaming music from a battery powered mobile device over Wi-Fi. Sorry there are just way too many things that can go wrong in that scenario. Never mind the idea of letting any idiot with a smart phone send you music that you know nothing about into your system. It would be one thing if the music was pushed to the controller and then the controller played it internally...but a continuously streaming application no thanks. And lets not even talk about the potential for hackers.

Not one all-in-one previously have delivered quality and so many usefull features. The stanton scs.4dj comes near, but it doesnt have a soundcard and can't function like an stand alone mixer. Numark and gemini products suffered from their low grade equipment quality.

[MouseAT]

In my opinion it's interesting but flawed.

My main issues with it:

• Navigation is limited. How are you going to find tracks effectively on the thing when you're playing from USB devices? I tried playing with a CDJ 2000 in store the other day with my 10,000 track collection to see how straightforward it was to navigate. Even the 2000 is clunky to navigate large collections on. This looks horrible in that regard. Pioneer still have a lot to learn in that regard.
• If it's still using RekordBox, that means no ALAC (Apple lossless) support. I just switched away from AIFF because I wasn't going to use RekordBox CDJs and I could use the extra disk space. I'm not converting back in a hurry.
• No XLR outputs. That makes it a no-go for me in a mobile environment.
• The wireless is a gimmick that may or not work. See what happens in a residential area with multiple access points. Now see what happens when you have a venue full of smart phone users, some of whom will have wireless tethering enabled. It can't end well.

There are some nice ideas here. It's a nice proof of concept device, but they need to do a fair amount of work and refinement before I'd consider a device like this ready for prime time. Let me know when they learn the lessons and produce a MK2 version that's a bit more usable and maybe we'll talk.

[Manu]

As usual, no price.

But I forgot to give my opinion on this product. And it's a big fat meh. I think pioneer need to refocus themselves and put the workforce into building something that looks and feels solid, instead of gimmick this and gimmick that. Only brings them closer to the way numark and behringer produce stuff, except for the premium $$$

Bedroom toy, take that in a club and risk dead air for things such as "my phone ran out of battery" or "I don't have a signal" or "I just lost signal" etc. Not to mention the hordes of clubbers, if one of them hears they can plug into your system wirelessly, sorry but that feels like opening the pandora box that has stupid requests written on it (I remember 5 years ago, that japanese kid who asked me if he could plug his USB watch so I would play his obscure far-east tunes). Take the wireless out of the equation, bring back the wires and drop the price by 400 bucks. And puh lease use better plastics this time.

[Scott Michael]

1199$ and it ships Aug 31, 2012 - source agiprodj.com

[Manu]

That means £1200 / €1800 and upwards in Europe.

[MeowMix]

I agree with the weird semi-pro characterization. I think it makes sense for bars that dont wanna drop the CDJ kinda money but still want a stable local setup. Aside from the silly wifi feature a more complete version of this, with better EFX control and hot cue/sample buttons, would have a shot at becoming a club standard controller.

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I read somewhere £ 875 and € 999

[DougMore]

The only thing that sparks interest for me is the app. Serato need to get off their asses and make an app that lets me do all my song prep when I'm out and about!