- Let's look at how to use the DDJ-200,
Pioneer's brand new controller
with Bluetooth MIDI
connection to an iOS device,
with djay software from Algoriddim.
It also works with WeDJ,
which is the free software
that Pioneer provides and it also works
with MWM's e-djing Mix.
Across all those apps, you get
lots of streaming providers.
For instance, on WeDJ, you get Beatport
and you also get SoundCloud.
On e-djing Mix, you get Deezer
and you get a free version
of SoundCloud, but on this, djay, you get
the kind of holy grail, which is Spotify,
which, of course, is the most popular
streaming provider by far.
By the way, Apple Music
isn't on any of them
as of recording this.
So let's have a look at how it works.
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So, in order to get it working with djay,
I've got my iPad mini here.
We don't need a wire
between the iPad and here,
this is all going to be
handled by Bluetooth.
But we do need a wire
coming out of the iPad
to go to our speaker and our headphones.
That gives us headphone monitoring
and it also gives us audio for our room.
This is handled by the
supplied splitter cable
that comes with the DDJ-200.
And we just plug our headphones into one
and our speaker into the other
side of the splitter cable.
It's a special
mono-splitter, a DJ splitter.
So the ones that you get in the airport
so you can share headphones on the plane,
it won't work, you've got to use the one
that's in the box, but
hey, it's in the box.
Of course, if you haven't
got headphone socket
on your iOS device, you're going to need
the headphone adapter as well that plugs
into the outlet there
and gives you that socket
to plug all this into.
Anyway, I plugged all that in
there, so we're ready to go.
Let's hit go on djay software.
So we're going to need to
connect up this device.
It's asking me if I want to confirm
that split cable that it's detected, I do.
Then I'm going to jump into
the settings at the top.
And from the settings, I want to go to
MIDI Devices, and in MIDI
Devices, I'm going to select
Bluetooth MIDI Devices and
in Bluetooth MIDI Devices,
I'm going to connect the DDJ-200.
This needs power, by the way.
This is plugged into a phone
charger under the desk,
so you do need power on this,
so there is a lead coming out of this,
even if it's not the same one
that's going into the iPad.
Okay, so we're connected up there,
that's telling me I'm connected.
And we're ready to go.
This is how easy it is to
use Spotify on this thing.
You hit the icon there
and you've got a choice
of your library, Music,
Spotify, or Videos.
I've selected Spotify.
If you are not currently
logged in to Spotify
via the app, it'll ask
you for your username
or email address and
password, but that's it.
We're in there now and I've
got all my playlists there,
so I'm just going to select Hot Hits UK.
I'm going to jump on a track there,
let's get Stormzy's new one.
See how quickly that
loaded, that's playing,
it analyses it very
quickly in the background,
and you're ready to go.
And it really is that
fast, so I could just go
and show you again, jump on another track.
Let's get Avicii there.
♪ Brothers gon' die, we just ♪
♪ Got to link me up ♪
So I've got both those
tracks playing there now,
it's instantaneous.
So long as you've got
an internet connection,
you can DJ straight from Spotify.
It's really cool for
parties, it's really cool
for discovering new music,
which is great, it's wonderful,
I love it.
It's always been that way
in this software of course,
but now you've got this little controller
as a new option for controlling it all.
So let's have a look at
how they've implemented
the controls on here with the software.
So the pads work a little
bit differently in WeDJ,
so this is divided among
the top and bottom layers.
The top are loops, so let's
get that track playing.
♪ With a facial just to top it off, ay ♪
♪ My ay, my ay, my ay ♪
One beat loop.
♪ My brothers don't, ay ♪
♪ My brothers don't, ay ♪
Two beat loops
♪ My brothers don't die,
we just vossi bop, ay ♪
♪ My brothers don't die, we just ♪
- Four beat loops.
And you can guess what the final one is.
It's an eight beat loop.
There on off, right.
I touch it, it's on, touch
it again and it's off.
If you hold down shift
you get instantaneous
looping at smaller values.
So for instance, I've got
a trigger half beat loop.
(music looping)
♪ Clue, let's be honest ♪
- Quarter.
(music looping)
Eighth.
(music looping)
And sixteenth.
The bottom pads are your cue points.
By pressing the first of
these I can add a cue.
(music looping)
Add another cue.
Add another one and another one.
And I want to delete them,
shift, one, two, three, four.
That's a very standard
behaviour for how they work.
So that's how the performance
pads work on this unit.
There's no little buttons
above the performance pad
to select different options
and there's no buttons
on here to do that either
so that's what you're tied
to as far as I can work out
on Algoriddim's djay with
the performance pads.
So the tempo faders do exactly
what you'd expect to do.
(music warps)
You can lock the key but you have to use
the software to do that.
There's nothing on here to do that.
The beat sync works as beat sync works
so I don't need to explain that further.
That'll sync your tracks up.
And the mixer has got
everything that works on WeDJ
and everything that's marked
on here works in the same way.
So you've got the high, mid, and low EQ.
♪ Chicks tryna get my brother
Flipz to share his thoughts ♪
♪ I think he's tryna tell me ♪
- We can see it on here
while I'm doing that
by selecting EQ here, so,
♪ Tell her he don't talk ♪
♪ I don't fuck with her ♪
♪ Yeah, I used to hit it
but you're stuck with her ♪
- There's highs, mids, and lows.
♪ Try my luck with her ♪
♪ Gyal say I'm bougie ♪
♪ Too exclusive ♪
- You've got the mixer there
so you can see what's going on there.
And also filter, you see
the filter knob moving
on the screen there, as well.
So the EQs are all as you would expect.
The transition effects are something
that was introduced on this unit
for WeDJ software by Pioneer.
And there is a version of that on here.
It's kind of the filter crossfader mix.
So let's have a look at how that works.
Keep an eye on the filter knobs
as I play these two tracks
and mix between them
with transition effects turned on.
(music transitions)
So you can see that it's filtering
high pass filter on the incoming track,
which then goes all the
way to not on at all
as the outgoing track
is high pass filtered.
♪ I tell your girl to link
me at the coffee shop ♪
♪ Bring me up from the under ♪
- Just gives you a smooth transition,
obviously I'm being
mixing there or anything
just showing you how it works.
And I can't see a way
of selecting any other
transition effect there.
You're kind of stuck with that one.
So a couple of things I
didn't like about this.
The first one, well overall,
there's not quite as much tightness
between the software and the hardware
which you can understand.
You know, I can't get
all the things on pads,
as far as I can work out,
that I've got on the
WeDJ software for iPhone
which comes with it.
The second one that was just, again,
I can't see a way of doing this
other than heading into the settings
and then heading into this place here
in order to change the headphone volume.
So if I want to make
these louder or softer
when I'm djing I've got to go in here
to mess with that volume,
it's two clicks away.
I'd like to see some kind of way
of getting to the headphone's
volume other than that.
But, you know, djay's great software.
It's got a lot of great stuff on it.
There's stuff that is not at
all tied to this implementation
and is just in the software.
The effects are really good.
So you've got kind of manual effects,
you've got instant effects.
(music distorts)
I think these are actually better
than the ones in the WeDJ software.
You've got an fx pad similar
to what's in the WeDJ software here
with fills above your choice of effect.
(music distorts)
And you can mess around with
the effects manually as well.
There's a manual effects there as well.
And there's a lot of views in here
that you don't get in the WeDJ software
that you can access through here.
So you can turn things on and off.
Waveforms there as well that you can use.
You've got a really nice set of samples
and a sequencer there.
And I'll just say there's
other views as well.
There's a view that I particularly like
just for general DJing
where you can have your library showing
as well as your decks
which is really nice cause
you're not always picking.
The live one you can be scanning tracks
while you're keeping an eye on
what you're doing as well.
So the main reason you're going
to want to use this, I think, is,
one, you want to use an iPad.
Because this works all
the way up to the iPad Pro
and then you've got an awful lot
of screen space to play with.
And two, you want to DJ with Spotify.
It's certainly very very usable.
It did crash once when
we were rehearsing this.
It got very unresponsive
and I had to reboot it.
So I'm not sure whether that's
kind of like first day nerves or whatever,
but just to point that out.
It's been fine ever since then.
So there you go, that is Algoriddim's djay
with the DDJ-200 and Spotify.
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