JASON DONNELLY: Jason Donnelly once again here with Gearwire.Com and the Pioneer CDJ1000 MK3. I wanted to show you really quick how the jog wheel responds with this hardware when in CDJ mode.

Right now, I actually could see the cue button blinking and the pause/play button blinking. We have it in CDJ mode. What that’s doing it’s going to allow us to cue up a second in the song basically wherever you want in the song, and I can show that to you. If I turn the volume up, it’s not going to sound too great but --

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So, here’s what we have. While we’re cueing up a tune, we can...

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...cue up to the very second or reverse it.

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And now I want to drop this song right about here, so.

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Now, as you see it, if I spin the wheel backwards, it’s slowing the track down. If I speed it up, pushing forward, that’s all in CDJ mode.

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So, let’s say I want to cue once again.

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Hit the pause button.

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Now, I can locate anywhere within that song by the second where I want to cue.

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Simply hit play again. By hitting cue, it stops that. [INDISCERNIBLE] will play.

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Hit play and we’re in cue mode. By now I want to locate the second that I want to drop the song, and then I just hit play. If I don’t want to hear that repetitive skipping sound, I just hit cue again but I’ll use that sometimes if we’re cueing in the headphones, obviously the crowd wouldn’t hear that when playing live, but -- We’ll hopefully they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t be a great DJ if they would, so anyway they’d want their money back and they’d probably throw beer bottles at them, and then they will probably put their shirts back on.

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Cue.

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Pause cue button.

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That’s all in CDJ mode.

So there you have it. Cueing up a second in a song to a split second. Another thing you can do in CDJ mode is once you have your song in pause mode, you can tap the cue button...

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...so you know exactly where to drop it on beat. You can practice on your headphones while you’re cueing. So, if you had another beat going you just see how that sounds, and then when you want to drop it, hit the play button.

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Let’s do that again. Back to the cue.

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Now it goes back to where we set that cue point.

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You can just hit to play and then it ends.

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And we can also manually cue.

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I’ve zoomed into the jog wheel, and as you can see there’s a little red marker there. That is your cue marker. In CDJ mode, you can use that cue marker to set a cue point in the song. Using this cue marker allows the DJ to go back to that point where that cue marker is set. I’ll show you how to set that real quick.

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We’re now in play mode.

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If I hit cue, it brings me right back to that cue marker. In play mode, cue, back to it, hit cue again, hold it down.

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Hit play.

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Hit cue, play, and all of it just snaps back to that marker.

How to set that marker.

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To set your cue marker, simply have the device in play mode, hit pause, you can locate if you -- you know -- save and hit pause at that exact beat, and so you can move the wheel to locate that exact beat, hit cue, snaps the marker right to that point, and now what we can do is play from that point...

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...or cue -- I just moved it. That’s it -- or hit cue and hold it down, and then cue from that point.

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Now, if you like that, you can hit play and drop your mix.

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Very intuitive, very easy to use. Like I said, I have used this deck maybe once. I mostly spin vinyl so this was an out-of-the-box learning experience for me and I figured it out right there without even looking at the owner’s manual. So, you also have vinyl mode on this deck, and I will show you a little bit about vinyl mode in another segment. So, once again this is Jason Donnelly, Gearwire.Com, and this is the CDJ1000 MK3. Thanks for watching.