Behringer BCD3000 DJ Control And Native Instruments Traktor 3 LE
In the first part of this video, DJ Puzzle plugs the Behringer BCD3000 into his computer to use it with the included Traktor 3 LE software provided by Native Instruments. Used as a tandem, the integration is simple and seamless. Check it out, and maybe change your viewpoint about Behringer.
JASON DONNELLY: Jason Donnelly here with Gearwire.Com, and we're back with the BCD3000 B-Control Deejay by Behringer, and this is the Traktor 3 LE on screen here. This is the software that comes bundled with Behringer mixer. Pretty cool software there. This is the LE version. You can upgrade to the full version obviously, and they do give you an offer on the CD to save you a few bucks more on the upgrade. I would highly recommend it.
Here's your deck A, deck B. I already have the song loaded in there, but to do that you just simply drag and drop from down here. This is your cue -- You can have a current -- a playlist or you can have as track collection or what-not. However, you want to organize your files. It's perfectly done here. You can click on the little headphone if you want to listen or preview the song before dropping it on the deck. So anyway, we have deck A here and hit play on the controller. I had the fader down so I can show you how I search back, and if you watch I'm going to click the search button. You can see how the waveform skips through. It moves pretty quick. You can also use the jog wheel; now, I can slowly move it. Keep your eye here on deck A. Using the little job wheel, and when I say little it is small. It's probably smaller than most wheels or whatever you want to call these on your standard DJ CD deck or whatever. So anyway, I'm hitting play on deck A.
[JASON DONNELLY STARTS PLAYING DECK A]
Now in the center you can see you have your level meter here, the EQs, effects, and what-not. All of these knobs and sliders are accessible via the Behringer controller. Let me give you a closer look at that.
Okay, so here we have our sort of middle mixer section on the software. We got EQs. Each channel has its own level meter, gain, cue button in the center. We have controls over your high, low, overall controls, so your headphone mix, your microphone mix, your master mix, and then you have above that effects, and keep your on the effects here. Right now, I'm on Filter T2. I can select -- using the controller, I can scroll through those. You can also turn the knobs and watch the knob move. These are affecting your effects parameters. So that's on and you can see what it sounds like. It's on flanger right now.
[JASON DONNELLY PLAYS DECK A WITH FLANGER ON]
As you can see, the amount there would be the wet/dry, completely wet [JASON DONNELLY TURNS AMT KNOB TO FULL], totally dry [JASON DONNELLY TURNS AMT KNOB TO ZERO THEL FULL].
On screen, on close-up here, Traktor 3's deck A. Watch the way I [INDISCERNIBLE] like see that. I'm using the search. It skips through quite fast. You can also set cue points. Let's set a cue point. Boom! Now it drops a little cue point, and now I can instantly go to that cue point. So, by setting a cue point, I can snap to that cue point, or if I want to scroll through the waveform, I simply use this jog wheel and do that. I can hold the scratch button down and [JASON DONNELLY PERFORMS SOME MILD SCRATCHING], trying to do this with one hand here and [JASON DONNELLY PERFORMS SOME MILD SCRATCHING] can you hear that? Pretty neat. Not like your traditional scratching which most of us are used to but still effective. It's more of an effect in this piece.
[JASON DONNELLY STARTS UP DECK A] Now the sync up here -- keep your eye on the sync. That would automatically sync this, so if I had a song on deck B playing. Now see right here where the two songs are following out of sync. If I press the sync button, boom! It snaps them in, taking away all of what many DJs have spent their time on learning, which is beat matching.
So, that's that. It's the BCD3000 B-Control Deejay by Behringer, USB MIDI DJ controller. Nice little piece of gear here, especially for the price. This is Jason Donnelly with Gearwire.Com.




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