The Lowdown As a replacement for that pretty much workaday club standard, the DJM-800, the DJM-850 ticks all the important boxes. Instantly familiar, but with future-proof touches, it both sounds good and has enough flexibility to work in most general pro DJing situations. It does have its weaknesses: Particularly, you have to look higher up the range for integration with other Pioneer gear via the Pro DJ Link, or the ability to play direct from Pioneer’s Rekordbox software direct from the mixer.

The Pioneer DJM-850 can be used with all DJ software, and is our favourite all-round software DJ’s mixer from the company. First Impressions / Setting up The Pioneer DJM-850: A club-standard mixer, with a Traktor Scratch-certified sound card built in, and at a reasonable price (at least, as far as this end of the market goes). It’s full-sized, metal, heavy, professional, and will be very familar if you’ve DJed on any Pioneer mixers since the DJM-600. Basically it’s an update of the DJM-800, which has been a club standard for many years. It fits nicely between record decks, CDJs, or any other full-sized gear; sat next to most DJ controllers, it looks like a BMW X5 parked next to a Mini, so if you’re going to use it with a Kontrol X1, Kontrol F1 or Xone K2 alongside, make sure you have something to raise the height of your button box. Download dolphin emulator for mac.

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Round the back are inputs for six line sources and two phono sources, plus one of the mixer’s two microphone inputs, (a TRS; there’s an XLR/TRS on the top panel in addition). There are outputs for master (XLR & RCA), booth (TRS) and record (RCA), plus ins/outs for an effects loop (TRS). There are four 1/8″ TRS control sockets for fader start connections to CDJs, with a DIN Midi out plus a single digital master out completing the typically extensive I/O. Down the left-hand side of the top panel we find the microphone controls (two mics, shared two-band EQ plus an on/off/talkover switch), the “Sound Color” FX buttons, the four fader start on/off buttons, and finally the headphones controls and socket, complete with a mono split / stereo switch. The DJM-850 with a pair of CDJ-900s is an attractive Traktor set-up especially since 2.5.1 dropped, as the CDJs now have native support and HID integration in the software. On the right are the beat FX in their customary position, with a long, thin LED display screen, a rotary to select between 14 effects, a channel FX selector, a time knob plus BPM tap, BPM factor buttons, a level/depth (ie wet/dry) knob, and a master FX on/off button. Just to the left of this effects strip is the master/booth output strip, with a 15-LED dual VU, a master level, a booth level, and a balance control.

Indented switches let you choose between mono or stereo output, and adjust the EQ behaviour (full kill or less abrupt), as well as the curve of the channel faders and crossfader. Each of the four strips on the main mixer section has a toggle for line / phono (or line 2) / USB audio, a gain (“trim”), three-band EQ, “color” knob, the line fader, and a crossfader assign three-way switch (A/B/thru), and at the very bottom of course is the crossfader itself.

The crossfader is looser than the line faders, but not particularly so; it’s not ideal for scratching. Each line also has a 15-bar VU up the left of its EQ controls. We tested the mixer using, controlled with timecode from a pair of (which we happen to be working with on a project here in the Digital DJ Tips workshop at the moment). Setting up was really very easy – you install the supplied driver, which has a control untility for routing the audio (you can also download it from the PioneerDJ support site, MacBook Air users!), plug in the USB and launch Traktor. The software picked up the audio routing with no extra effort required, so we then switched two of the channels to timecode in the Pioneer utility, connected the Denon DJ SC3900s to the laptop too, installed their TSI file, and hey presto! A complete Traktor Scratch Pro 2.5 digital vinyl system complete with Midi control over Traktor via the SC3900s. One thing: At first, I didn’t like the fact that the USB is on the top, but it made sense when I thought about it – no fiddling around the back to set things up in a dark club. In Use The DJM-850 Setting Utility is clear and easy and allows you complete control over the input and output routing to and from the DJM-850’s audio interface.