Numark iDJ Live Overview & Demo | UniqueSquared.com

Hey what's up? This is Scott Magno, DJ MadFlip here with UniqueSquared.com and today we're going to check out the Numark iDJ Live controller. Very cool controller that you're going to use with your iPad 1 or 2, your iPhone or your iPod touch to control DJ software. Let's check it out. Alright, so right out of the box you can see that it's a very light portable design. It's going to emulate a lot of the controllers we've reviewed here at UniqueSquared, in being that you've got your jog wheels, you've got your crossfader section. You've got a bass and treble EQ on the controller as well as a browse section and a couple of like plus/minus pitch adjusts for your nudging. Now let's talk about the software, this is going to be something you use with Algorithm DJ software that you can download from the app store for maybe twenty bucks or so. Very cool software. I'm going to go ahead and go through some of the features on here that you probably wouldn't expect to have in an iPhone or iPad software. You have the ability to set three different cue points on here. That's very handy to be fast and get exactly where you want to go. First of all, you have control of pitch, you have control of selecting your tracks using your browse section. And you also have this section where you can go through and adjust EQ low, mid, and high, and gain. So that's going to be a little bit more than you can do on the controller. Also you have an advanced loop section where you can assign your auto loop to like, two beat, four, sixteen. You also have your manual in/out loop. Then you also have your bounce loop effect. This is like a loop roll, very cool to have on here, there's a lot of professional softwares out there that don't even have that function. You also have your section here where you can do all of your adjusting for your master volume, the manner in which you change the crossfader, your cueing section and your cueing volume. It's also going to come with this cool stand right here and also this cable that you can run ⅛ inch out of your device so you can send one to your master and then also an adapter jack so you can use your headphones. Ok, so let's get in the mix. Now, the Algoriddim software is really nice, it's a stand alone software that you can use on your device. You can actually mix without even using a controller, it's kind of nice, but the controller gives you more of a tacked off feel, it's really good. So you've got the two turntables, you've got your waveforms up here. You're volume control of each channel, and your pitch and kind of your sync here as well. Now, what I like about this is the way that the headphone cue works. You'll see that if I've got the crossfader on the left side, then the right side cue is going to automatically give me the cue of that side, and vice versa on the other side. That's really nice that I don't have to go and fumble through cue buttons. Alright, so let's get started with this mix. Pretty nice, I can go into here and I can adjust my EQs, set my loops here. So I'll go ahead and set that loop, come back out and get my next track ready. Now what I did was, I set a cue point for the very beginning of this track, so I can hit that button and it will put the cue right on. Pretty easy mix, you know, very basic. But it's really easy to, you know, just kind of bring the tracks in slow. You can get really crafty with it as well. You know, that bounce loop feature is really nice. As I said before, the track will continue to go even when you hit the loop. Really cool. So you can get kind of a glitchy feel. You know, you don't really expect that kind of feature to be on an iPhone app, but it's really nice to have it. So you know, if you're on the go and you've got that itch that you want to scratch. The iDJ Live is perfect for you. All you need is your music and your swagger and you can bring it. This is Scott Magno, DJ MadFlip from UniqueSquared.com. Be you, be unique, at UniqueSquared.com.