- I'm gonna take you through the brand new
Pioneer DJM-V10 mixer today.
We're gonna talk about
all the new features
on this mixer, it's a beast.
Who it's for and what makes
it different from the current
if you like, kind of main
stream flag ship anyway,
from Pioneer the DJM-900 Nexus 2.
Of course there was the
DJM-2000 mixer a while back,
which should look superficially
a bit more like this one,
but actually, as you're about to find out,
this is a different beast entirely.
And I think the first clue
to that is in the name.
It's a DJM-V10, it's the new
nomenclature by Pioneer here.
It's clearly gonna be
part of something new
that they're doing.
I would expect more gear
in this kind of range,
to come in the future.
At the moment, this is
the first thing we've got.
So certainly feels like something new.
So we're gonna start
off by talking through
the kind of basics of it
and then I'll talk through
some of the many things are
either new or radically changed
from the DJM-900.
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Okay, so let's start with this mixer.
It is clearly different
in a few ways instantly,
to the standard Pioneer mixer.
The first one, it's got six channels.
Now, you might think why do we
need six channels in a mixer?
We're never gonna DJ with
more than four things.
But as you will see soon,
and when you hear who this is for,
it'll kinda make a little bit more sense.
So there's six main input
channels on this mixer.
There's also four EQ's instead of three.
So you've got a low and a
mid, a low and high, mid EQ
rather than just one mid
EQ which is gonna be nice
for separating kinda melodic bass lines
from self higher up in that mid range,
which is something that
the kinda DJ this aimed at,
the audio file DJ,
which you're gonna be hearing more about,
is gonna be interested in.
So that's another big difference.
Another big difference here
is that they've split out
the filters from what used to
be called the color effects.
They're called something different now
we'll get on to all this in a bit.
But to give you the highlights really,
the filters are now split out
and they're very different.
They're much more like the
Allen and Heath style of filter.
So a big change going on there.
The effects section down here
pretty similar to what we're used to,
but with the addition of this big
kinda four inch screen here,
which we'll take a closer look at shortly.
And you've probably already
noticed it's got an isolator
for fans of the mixes of the
past and some recent mixes,
boutique mixes that have this isolated.
It's basically a really big three band EQ
over the whole output.
And it can be used
pretty creatively by DJs
because when you've got a mixer like this
and you've got lots of sources coming in
and you're EQ them to within
an inch of their lives,
you can then take that whole
output from the six channels
and do something big with that as well.
So a lot of control, control
is gonna be a big part of
the appeal of this mixer to people
because there really is a...
Compared to the simplicity.
I mean when it first came
out, we looked at this
and thought, wow, it's a lot on that
but this feels like a
toy compared to this.
The compared to the
simplicity of the DJ of 900.
There is an awful lot
going on the DJM-V10.
Okay, so now that we've
had a quick talk around
the basics going on here,
there's an awful lot more
detail that I want to go into.
And we're gonna start
off by kinda looking at
the market is going for,
I think in two words,
or three if you include
the one between them,
Allen and Heath.
This is very similar in
feel you get the feeling
that they're aiming this
at the same audience
as the zone mixes
and even the play differently
model one Richie Hawtin's kind of mixer
that he champions and uses.
It's that kind of device.
It's got that kind of router ability,
plus it's got a very, very
good sound card in it,
32 bit digital analog,
analog digital converter
in that sound card.
All the other specs are very, very high.
It is a fully digital mixer,
unlike the analog hybrid style
that Alan and Heath prefer,
but it's clearly that's
who they're going for here.
Pioneer say it's the biggest
leap in sound quality
over the DJM-900 they've ever done,
It's the best sounding mixer ever.
So clearly audio quality router ability,
Allen and Heath that's the kind of market
they're going for here.
The kind of DJs who as you're
gonna learn in a minute,
who are gonna be really,
really interested in this
they're gonna be once you play
maybe in without other musicians,
or with their own extra equipment,
or indeed with another DJ,
because another feature that
I haven't mentioned yet,
is that it's got dual headphone outputs.
So that means that you can easily
plug two sets of headphones
and both listen to your
own things and DJ together
which is really nice.
Of course it's got dual
computer compatibility,
there's too many sockets out there
for plug two laptops in,
it works out of the box
with record box with the
latest version of record box
it's coming for Serato.
So you'll be able to plug your
software in there as well.
And it retains what
we're just talking about
the kind of computer inputs and outputs,
it retains the Multi Input/ Output
that you get on the DJM-900
for plugging things in
like, the iPad RMX app,
and the DJM-REC app
for recording your sets
on your phone and so on.
So that's there as well.
All right then, so that's
kind of who they're aiming at.
Let's start with the filters
cause they're quite a big thing here.
Let's get some music play.
So the filters here as I
said before, split off from
the color effects now
called the sound effects.
And it's not one filter
with a center click anymore.
Instead the filter is a little
bit more Allen and Heath
in that you can select
low pass or high pass
and then you get to control the filter
with the whole control with
that particular filter.
So for instance, low pass.
(soft beat music)
(murmurs)
(soft beat music)
hear that sounded right for you.
So high pass,
(upbeat music)
so I'm getting used to it.
(upbeat music)
You got a whole range,
it's a lot more expressive,
but also you get the resonance.
So
(soft beat music)
this has got a center click
and this will give you
(soft music play)
that kinda melodic sweet that you get with
the Allen and Heath filters.
And because they've got two buttons
for the filter there as well.
That means that you
don't have this problem
you're trying to get out
of a filter on one beat
and you're trying to mixing
it and going the other way
or being a bit late or so,
you can have a filter on the go there.
(soft music play)
(upbeat music)
And knock it out exactly when you need to.
So the filters are separating
now from these effects
and the effects of beast.
So let me try and get everything in here
and not miss anything
out and get it all right.
So the rest of the effects that used
to run the color effects and now on
what's called send effects.
As before, this one on each channel here,
and these are on these six buttons here.
Now only four of them have got effects on
let's just stop for a second
while I talk about this.
Only four of them have got effects on
they are the kind of reverb
and echo effects they've lost
the big kind of noise sweet for instance,
they're kind of aiming more
towards echo and reverb
and delay effects.
And that's almost certainly because,
the kinda DJ that would buy this
are using pedals, they're
using like bass, guitar pedals,
reverb and echoes and so on,
plugged in to the send return
on other mixes in order to get
more and more and more
of that kind of thing.
It's one of those, apart from filters,
delays and echoes and reverbs,
the effects that really
DJ tend to use the most.
So that's what's going on here.
But, there are six buttons so you get
a short delay a long delay,
a dub echo or reverb,
and two externals.
So what are these for?
Well, around the back of the
mixer are two sets of jacks,
where you can plug in external effects
just like you can on sound
mixes always have been able to.
So that means that you can not only
have the four built in effects,
which Pioneer is clearly thinking
well, a lot of people
won't bother bringing
pedals with them to plug in when
we've given them really
good versions here,
we'll get on to how good
they are in a minute.
But if you do want to
plug in external effects,
you can do so and you've got two
so once you've plugged them in,
you've got a button and a
knob here to control them
just like you can with the internal ones,
which is really, really nice
and it's a differentiator of this mixer.
Let's just get that music playing again.
And let's try and get this right.
I've only had a little
while with this mixer.
Let me talk you to how this works.
So we have our sends here.
These are basically the
equivalent of the old knob
that turns the effects on and off.
So let's put on a long delayed
and I'm gonna turn on the
effect on this channel.
And I don't have to press that button,
first thing I got wrong there,
these are actually the beat effects.
So it's just this knob.
So let's (upbeat music)
so you can hear that long
delay kicking in there right?
In the kind of old fashioned way.
(upbeat music)
Post fader of course, in
the old fashioned way,
there's your long delay.
(upbeat music)
Now we have more than...
This is going to a short
delay, less distracting.
We have more than the controls
you ever seen before on this.
We've got a size or feedback.
This is depending on whether
you're on reverb or echo,
it's gonna do a slightly different thing.
(upbeat music)
We have time,
(upbeat music)
which is basically how many
times how often it repeats.
(upbeat music)
We have tone, which is kinda what it says.
It's kinda (murmurs) to
some more light and airy.
(upbeat music)
And we have a master mix level.
So what's the master mix level?
Well, we've got this
master mix button press,
which means and these are behaving
in the kind of normal way.
So if I turn that off.
Doesn't matter what I
do with this knob here,
you're not gonna hear it.
If turn this on, this tells
me how much of the effect
(upbeat music)
gets fed through the master mix.
So I can be quite subtle.
(upbeat music)
If that's the way I like to DJ or
(upbeat music)
give yourself that full control over it.
So we've got the dub echo there.
(upbeat music)
Again, these controls work on all of them.
(upbeat music)
A big reverb,
(upbeat music)
and a long delay, we started
off with a long delay, I think.
So there's some delays and
reverbs, with lots of control
your feedback, time, tone,
and your master level.
And that's gonna work reasonably similarly
over it with lots more control
to the way they used to work.
But there's a different
way of using these as well.
And that is, if you use production desk,
you'll know that you quite often send
the affected version or
something to another channel.
And you can do that on this.
Why would you wanna do that?
Well, because if you can send your input
plus the effect to another channel,
well, then you get all
the channel controllers,
you get the full EQ, you
can put a filter on it,
you do everything you could
do to any other input channel,
which is really powerful to
return master mix off there.
And then, at the top of each channel,
I told you (murmurs) through
channels in a minute,
you have a channel input matrix
to our set that if I set
that to build-in effect,
then now I can turn on
that delay for instance.
(upbeat music)
And it's now coming to this channel.
You can see this on the
channel faders here.
So now I can put
filters on my delay.
I've got a full EQ on it,
we've got compression on it,
we'll get into that in a minute.
So
(upbeat music)
you've got all kinds
of stuff going on there
that you don't have on the standard 900.
So are really no longer
called color effects
now could send effects really
big improvement in that area.
A lot of DJs, gonna get
excited about that, I'm sure.
Okay, so we've covered off that now.
I said, we talked about the channels
and maybe now is a good time.
Look, I've still got that going on there.
(laughs)
Wonderful.
So, I said we talked about the channels.
So let's do just that.
So let's just talk
through one or two of them
to show you the differences.
The biggest difference on these channels
is just the input matrix at the top.
Channels one and six they've got
the kinda full gamut of router ability
from the effects and so on.
And two to five, I've got most of it,
that's probably the best
way of describing it.
So you've got at the top here,
you can select either of the USB inputs,
either the computer inputs, you can select
the digital input line,
input phone or input for,
your standard inputs on the channel,
CDJs, Record X and so on.
And then multi I/O, this
is as per the DJM-900
anything you might have here.
And then you have three,
other say three or more
depending on where you are options
for the inputs and outputs
that kinda send in return,
turning return features of the mixer.
So what's going on at the top.
Now one nice thing we
have is a compressor.
So,
(upbeat music)
over here, at the top, we've got our trim,
standard trim of course,
but we've also got
(upbeat music)
you hear that
(upbeat music)
kicking in and emphasizing
that high (murmurs)
(upbeat music)
a compressor.
So why would we want to
compressor per channel?
It's brilliant by the way,
I mean, really you're gonna
miss out on any other mixer.
Why would we want to
compressor per channel?
Well, the reason is that if
you're mixing open format,
if you're mixing a lot of
music from across the decades,
we all know that if you try
and mix a modern club chuck
into something from the 80s,
the 80s chuck sounds horribly weighty
and then you can use this to
kind of compensate for that
to give a bit of punch
right at the very beginning
of the audio chain
to any incoming signal that needs it.
So this is allows you to balance
get a lot more unity to your mix.
And of course when you throw the isolator,
and on top of that, that's pretty cool.
So we've got a compressor
and a trim at the top here.
As I mentioned before the four band EQ,
we've talked about the
filter and the send,
and we have our fader and our
magwell crossfader of course,
you'd expect that.
Now we have two cue buttons,
one cue button for the main headphones
and one cue button for the
secondary headphones as well
which again is really nice.
What we're talking about the headphones.
Let's just cover off that area.
So in the headphones section,
the main headphones kind of dominate here,
and what you have is the
standard cue mix and level
but you have your cue
button, you're pre EQ,
so you can bypass EQ, mano splits.
And this button called link is quite cool.
With link, if you're DJing from record box
plugged in on a laptop,
you can use that to preview the chart.
When you click on a track
to preview it in record box,
you get that little waveform,
you can actually hear the record box chat
without loading onto
a deck, which is nice.
I would suspect
that when these ancient
old things are replaced,
you'll be able to do the same from these.
You want to preview chat
using that button without
having to load it which
is really cool, right?
So that function is in there
I expect that the roadmap for that one.
So that's how the headphones work.
We've covered off all this stuff
microphone area is pretty normal.
It's not really a jobbing
mobile wedding DJ type devices.
You've got your two mic
inputs as ever talk over,
you can put the effects over the mic
and you got a two band EQ there as well.
Let's move over to the
other side of the mixer.
We have already talked about the isolator.
So just to show you that in operation.
(upbeat music)
So you got the isolated,
(upbeat music)
just a three band EQ but
it's, it's over everything
so if you're deep in the mix
with lots of loops going on
and inputs and outputs and stuff
that's gonna give you that
overall, crowd pleasing,
let's knock the highs out,
mids out wherever for a bit
and bang them back in.
So you got that there,
down here, let's have a little look at
the effects section because
this is reasonably familiar.
It's just been expanded to
use this screen a little bit.
So we have our usual effects.
So this are new effect called shimmer.
Everything else isn't new,
so I won't go through these for you
find them on any DJM-900 (murmurs).
But this shimmer effect is quite nice.
(upbeat music)
It's kinda like a musical reverb,
it's gonna be the best way.
(upbeat music)
And the best way of describing that
but it's quite nice, quite dreamy.
So you got that shimmer effect
there was well, but I'm sure
that what you're looking
at is this big screen.
So this big screen is nice
because every single
effect has got its own
screen going on here.
And that means that you can,
(knob ticking)
(upbeat music)
you got some adjustment over the effects,
right here on this pad here.
(upbeat music)
And depending on which effect you on,
you get a different look here.
(upbeat music)
So that's pretty cool that
you've got this kinda like,
this kind of hard to (murmurs)
work on stuff with here.
And that goes across all the effects
as well, they will have
their own transform.
(skipping beats)
And its got (murmurs) as well.
So that's what's going on there.
But at the top here,
let's talk to you what's
going on at the top.
Stop that music there for a second.
So you got a lot of
controls that you sometimes
find on the hardware controls,
you might be missing them,
things like fader curve settings.
That's actually here,
you can choose your
crossfader curve here on this.
This screen by the way is it's all right,
but it's just feels a bit
old fashioned nowadays,
it's that kind of plastic the Pioneer use,
I'd like to see that being glass.
But anyway doesn't make any
difference to the usability.
It's just a bit surprising
that in this day and age,
we've got a kind of plastic
touchscreen, when of course,
we've all had glass touch
screens on our audio
on our phones and stuff forever.
Okay, so there's your crossfader curve
and your fader curve settings in there.
But then also in here,
we have my settings.
Now this is good, because
what you can do here is
you can load and save the
settings for the effects.
And one nice thing that
we discovered here is
that if you like to use a
certain effect with with...
Like say only on the mids and highs,
so you turn off the low
on a certain effect,
you can save that so when
you load that back in,
then your effects will be
set the way you want them
and when you switch to that effect,
it will have the low cut
out like it is there,
but next time as well.
So that's really nice, that's a nice,
a nice thing that they've added here.
So let's talk through
what's going on here.
We have the channel fader
curve is here as well.
So there's no button for
the channel fader curve,
we have the crossfader curve, the pre EQ
and post EQ for the headphones,
although there's a button
for that here as well
if I change that the
button will probably change
there as well you see,
and we also have the
same for the mono split
button will go on and off there.
The duplicated that they're.
The big beat effects quantize is their,
mic low cut so that if
you want to cut rumble off
from the microphone that's there.
You do top over setting
so you can set how aggressive they are.
The MIDI channel can be set here,
this has got MIDI random,
it's got MIDI around the back as well,
but it's a full mini mixer
so you could use it with VJs
and with LJs is to control
visuals and lights and so on,
but as I say to full MIDI
mixer with MIDI clock output,
so there's a (murmurs) on the back
and you can plug in two
sequences of drum machines
and so on and keep everything in sync.
So there's a MIDI channel there for that.
Your brightness settings for
the display and the indicator
settings to all the effects
delay, echo, ping pong,
spiral, etc.
You're all going on down here.
And so a lot that you can sit there
and a lot that you can save
as well, which is cool.
All right then, so what have I missed?
I think we've probably covered
everything I wanna cover
in a total a part from maybe
just going around the back
and showing you what
different inputs and outputs
are there for completion sake.
So let's do that now.
So to start with, we have
a lockable power cable
which is nice.
There's our on and off button,
here is our ground,
there's another ground on the
other side for turntables.
So we've got our analog
input and output jacks
for the multi input output.
And we got the two external jacks,
stereo jacks here as well,
or two mono input output.
So that's where they plug in.
Then moving along here are our channels,
all six of our channels.
So let's start off by looking
at these from channel one.
So channel one,
like channel two, three,
four, and six has got,
a sorry like three, four
and six has got phono inputs
five and two haven't,
they've just got line inputs.
Over here, a digital inputs,
we've got six digital inputs,
one for each of the channels,
you can see I'm using
digital here as well,
directly from the CDJs.
We've got a master output,
digital master output here
as well, which is cool.
So if you can plug a
stereo master from here
into a digital input on a PA system.
So you can have digital
all the way through
the signal chain there if you want.
So we got the two microphone inputs,
again not a big part of the way this mixer
is gonna be sold here, but
they are there for you.
Here's the link and the media,
and there's is only one link there
so you can't plug your CDJs
into this without using a router.
I haven't bothered setting
up the router here.
I've just put the CDJs
together for this demo.
So, there's currently
no way of doing that.
I'm surprised by that.
I think maybe we're gonna
see that being rectified
by Pioneer at some point soon.
But anyway, that is the
way it still continues.
You need a router to
link everything together.
So then have the booth outputs
here which are as usual in
Pioneer style, they are jacks
and the master output
we've got the one I'm using
the unbalanced RCA and the balanced XLR.
Finally there is a record
output here as well,
which obviously bypasses the master
so that you can have a clean recording
without master volume
changes going on, on it.
So that ends our first
look review of this unit.
It's not cheap, the prices are
let's double check those 3299 Euros,
2799 Pounds (murmurs)
will be about $3,000.
This is not a cheap mixer and
I know its not meant to be
they're not intending on
shifting loads of these.
This is a Pioneer saying look
we can do the best as well,
I think it's it sounds
really, really nice.
It might be digital but
it's very, very warm.
It's got great a great audio chip in it,
it's the highest quality that
is out there from this brand.
And a lot of the implementations
well, its yes taking
a leaf out of Allen and Heath book
and any for that kind of market,
they have put their own spin on it,
the filters actually simpler
to use than Allen and Heath.
I love the sends, I love
having the two external sends
on the same alongside
the same four effects.
And I love having this splitting out
all the parameters in the
same way that you can split
some of the parameters
out on the beat effects
over here on the new sound
effects that's really powerful.
I adore the compression.
I think that's such a cool thing to have,
because nowadays increasingly,
people are playing a whole
wide range of material
and to be able to at the input stage,
compress that and make it all sound
like it all hands together a
little bit better is awesome.
And likewise I think the isolator here
that she's basically three
band EQ across the output
is really nice to.
Now this is a creative tool of course,
I suspect some deja vu just be using this
to leave the base a bit
higher in the whole club
for the whole night because
it suits their style
or it compensates for
the PA in against what
the sound engineer might be doing.
But anyway, the isolator is
really nice there as well.
So, adding the router
ability of the effects,
it's clearly a mix aimed at DJ duos,
people who do more than just
play from deck to deck to deck,
people who play with a
lot of external equipment,
people who maybe play
with other musicians,
and it's got everything you need in it
to hold that mix together,
technically but through all
the routing and sonically.
Full MIDI, two laptops
and all that stuff as well
very powerful sound card in it.
So I'm really interested
to see what comes next
in this range.
This is the DJM-V10,
what is gonna come next?
I have no information on that at all.
But I believe this is likely
to be the start of something for Pioneer
will see a whole kind of new set of gear
aimed at this market
coming from in the future.
But for now, that's what
we've got the DJM-V10 mixer
from Pioneer DJ, if you've
got any questions about this,
please ask them underneath.
There's a full article covering
what I've talked about here
over on DIGITAL DJ TIPS as well.
Again, there is a link underneath.
But meanwhile, it's just
there for me to say get good,
get out there and make the moment.
We'll see you again very soon.
(upbeat music)
