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The XDJ-Aero is Pioneer’s first completely self contained DJ console dedicated to mixing rekordbox digital music.
You can mix two tracks and record your whole set from a single USB drive.
“You literally can just pick up that unit and your USB key and give people the time of their lives.”
“It’s just the convenience of it really, it’s a little unit, you can just pop it in a bag, take it to your party. It takes like just two minutes to set up and away you go.”
The layout of the XDJ-Aero is really simple with two identical players and a mixer in the middle.
“It acts and behaves exactly like a CDJ which is beautiful.”
The XDJ Aero has 4 quantised beat effects to play with that will always be in perfect time with rekordbox analysed music.
“I was kind of dubious about how it would respond to scratching and stuff but its worked out really well.”
“You can use it in the club and totally get away with it, like no worries at all.”
Rekordbox is professional music management software for Mac, iPhone as well as Windows and Android. It’s really easy to import and analyse your music and then export to USB so you can leave your expensive laptop at home.
“You’ve got your rekordbox softeware on your computer at home, you can organise all your tracks, assemble your beatgrids, create playlists etc.”
“Once you’ve got all your rekordbox and all your files and everything on the pen, you can literally practice at home, take your pen out and plug it into a CDJ-2000 that have the USB thing at the top and transfer exactly what you’re doing here straight to the club.”
The XDJ-Aero is the world’s first DJ system with rekordbox connectivity built in.
“It has its own WiFi address, you put in the password and then you’re connected to it”
Now you have all your music on a USB drive, you can browse and load that music using your iPad.
And because the app is simply a remote control, no matter what happens, the music will keep playing.
“So I’ve got my playlists up and you just click and drag which tune you want. Look at that, that’s pretty swift.”
You can also import music to the rekordbox app and send it to the aero wirelessly.
Now you can see all the DJs music, or send something of your own to the decks.
“It’s all you know someones got their iPhone or IPod you have to go and stop the music and plug in another one, and that’s annoying and this eliminates that in a really nice way.”
“And then you can choose a song from your phone that you want or one of his songs and you can press that green button.”
The whole song is loaded to memory in seconds so no matter what happens, the music keeps playing. The rekordbox app shows you whats playing and you can even tag tracks to a short list for DJs to play.
“It allows people to be a bit more involved and have a little of a say and then listen to what they actually want.”
“They can just load their tunes and it's in a queue. It works like a jukebox, a live jukebox I would say.”
The XDJ-Aero’s flexibility makes it expandable to serious bedroom setups, mobile DJ rigs, small club and bar setups.
It breaks new boundaries and sets a new standard for the next generation of truly mobile digital DJs.