Controles

KEY

ACTION

S SHIFT

Press and hold this button to access secondary functions as described in this manual

1 PLAY

Press to play the loaded track. Press again to pause the track. The LED will blink when track is paused and lit solid when track is playing

2 CUE

When track is paused, press this button to set current track's position as a temporary CUE point. Press and hold this button to preview track while held. While held, press PLAY to continue playing or release to return to the CUE position.
When track is playing, press this button to return to the stored CUE position (or the beginning of the track if no CUE is set.
The LED of this button will blink if the track is paused but current position is not the stored CUE point and lit solid in all other cases.

3 SEARCH

Press these buttons to move track backwards/forward by 4 beats (while kept pressed)

4 TRACK SEARCH

Press the left << button to load the next track from the focused Browser list.
Press the right >> button to load the next track from the focused Browser list.
In both cases, the playing status (playing or stopped) will be kept.

5 DIRECTION

Move the latch switch down to change the playback direction. When enabled (REV led is lit) the track plays backwards. Move back to the middle position to disable and continue normal playback from the current position.
Move and hold the latch to the upper position to play the track in reverse while held. When released, track will resume to the position it would have been if never reversed.

6 BANK A

Press this button to control Hotcues 1-4 with the 4 hotcue buttons (8)

7 BANK B

Press this button to control Hotcues 5-8 with the 4 hotcue buttons (8)

8 HOT CUES

In Hotcue mode (default) :
Use these 4 buttons to assign or trigger Hotcues 1 to 8 (depending on which Bank button is active). When a Hotcue is not assigned, use the button to set a Hotcue at the current track position. When assigned, buttons will jump track to their set position.
Hold SHIFT and then use these buttons to delete their assigned Hotcues.

In Stems mode :
When Bank A is active these buttons will control Stems .
When Bank A is active these buttons will control Stems FX.

In Sampler mode :
When Bank A is active trigger Samples 1 to 4.
When Bank A is active trigger Samples 5 to 8.

9 SLIP

Enable/disable Slip mode. When enabled, several actions such as holding the platter, loop and Hotcues will act temporarily and once performed, track will resume to the position it would have been if the action was never performed

10 LOOP 4

If track is not in loop, press this button momentarily to enable a 4 beats auto-loop.
Press and hold this button down to enable an 8 beats auto-loop.
When in loop, use this button to half the size of the loop

11 LOOP IN

When not in Loop, use this button to set current track's position as the beginning of the loop.
When in loop, use this button to enable/disable Loop In Adjust mode (LED will blink fast) and then use the jogwheel to fine-adjust the entry point of the Loop.

12 LOOP OUT

When Loop In is set, use this button to set current track's position as the end point of the loop and enable the loop..
When in loop, use this button to enable/disable Loop Out Adjust mode (LED will blink fast) and then use the jogwheel to fine-adjust the exit point of the Loop.

13 RELOOP

When in loop, use this button to exit the loop. If not in loop, use this button to enable the last triggered loop (reloop) and jump to its position..

14 QUANTIZE

Enable/disable Quantize mode. When enabled, several actions such as Loops and Hotcues will be quantized (snapped) to the nearest beat or other beat fraction depending on the globalQuantize value (from VirtualDJ Settings)

15 TIME MODE

Toggle between Elapsed and Remain Time view. Hold down for more than 1 second to enable/disable AutoCue. When enabled, tracks will loaded at the first available Hotcue position

16 NEEDLE SEARCH

Use this touch sensitive area of the display to scroll through the track. The deck will enter playback mode while you keep thouching this area (if it wasn't playing allready) in order to allow you to preview the track.

17 BEAT LOOP

Tap to show/hide a panel with quick Loop buttons on the screen

18 BEATJUMP

Tap to Jump 1 beat backwards

19 BEATJUMP

Tap to Jump 1 beat forward

20 CUE CALL

Use these buttons to jump to the previous/next assigned Hotcue.
If a loop is active, press the buttons to halve / double the size of the loop.
Hold SHIFT down and then use these buttons to switch the Hotcue buttons between Stems (PREVIOUS button) or Sampler (NEXT button) mode (when Hotcue Buttons are set to Alternative mode).

21 DELETE

This button does not have any function assigned to it in VirtualDJ

22 MEMORY

Hold SHIFT and press this button to toggle the HOTCUE buttons between HOTCUE and Stems /Sampler (Alternative mode)

23 JOG ADJUST

Adjust how heavy or light the Jogwheel will be

24 JOGWHEEL

Use the jogwheel to Scratch , pitch-bend or adjust the entry and exit loop positions.
When VINYL mode is enabled, use the upper/inner part of the wheel to Scratch the track backwards/forward and the outer part (side) to pitch-bend (temporary speed-up/slow-down tempo)
When CDJ mode is enabled use any part of the jogwheel to pitch-bend (temporary speed-up/slow-down tempo)
See LOOP controls for loop in/out adjust.
The LCD screen will display the CUE position and a track rotation marker

25 TEMPO RESET

Use this button to gradually reset Track's tempo back to its original value.

26 TEMPO

Use this fader to adjust the tempo (BPM) of the track. In middle position, the track will play at its original tempo (BPM). The pitch% and BPM value are displayed on the LCD of the unit.

27 Master TEMPO

Use this button to enable/disable Master Tempo (Keylock). When enabled, pitch/tempo changes will not affect the Key of the track

28 TEMPO RANGE

Use this button to select the % range for the Pitch fader. On each press, the range will cycle through 6,10,16 and 100%. The selected range is displayed on the LCD of the unit

29 SYNC

Use this button to synchronize Tempo (BPM) and Beat phase to the other Deck or Master Deck - if more than 2 Decks are used.
Press and hold this button to clone the track from the other deck to this deck (instant doubles)

30 Master

Use this button to manually set the Deck as Master . When a Deck is set as Master , all other Decks will sync to the Master Deck, if SYNC is pressed.

31 JOG MODE

Press to toggle between VINYL or CDJ mode for the Jogwheel

32 RELEASE/START

Use this knob to adjust the time the track will take to reach full speed from paused. If knob is at the minimum position, the track will start playback immediately. If in other positions, track will emulate a vinyl rampup when playback starts.

33 TOUCH/BRAKE

Use this knob to adjust the speed the time the track will take to stop when paused. If knob is at the minimum position, the track will pause immediately. If in other positions, track will emulate a vinyl brake when paused.

34 EJECT

This button does not have any function in VirtualDJ

35 TAG TRACK

Press this button to switch the browser focus to the sideview.
Press and hold this button to advance the contents of the sideview (sidelist/automix/sampler e.t.c.)

36 BACK

If scatchview (main view) is active on the display, press this button to enter the browser view.
If browser view is active press this button to switch focus on folders view.
If folders view is active press this button to open/close subfolders.

37 TRACK FILTER

This button does not have any function in VirtualDJ

38 BROWSE

If scratchview (main view) is active on the display rotate this encoder to change the zoom of the waveforms.
If browser view is active, turn this encoder to select a track or a folder. Press this encoder down to load the selected track on the deck, or to switch focus from folders to tracks view

39 SHORTCUT

This button does not offer any functionality in CONTROL MODE

40 MENU

This button does not offer any functionality in CONTROL MODE

41 INFO

This button does not offer any functionality in CONTROL MODE

42 TAG LIST

This button does not offer any functionality in CONTROL MODE

43 BROWSE

Press this button to switch the display to browser view

44 SOURCE

Use these buttons to switch the source for the deck
Press the LINK button and follow on screen instructions to enable and select CONTROL MODE for use with VirtualDJ

45 SD CARD SLOT

Insert a compatible SD card. This source is not used when the device is assigned to VirtualDJ

46 USB TYPE A

Insert a compatible USB media storage device. This source is not used when the device is assigned to VirtualDJ

47 USB STOP

Press and hold this button to eject a USB device. This operation is not used when the device is assigned to VirtualDJ

DISPLAY SETTINGS

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A few settings are available in VirtualDJ->Settings->OPTIONS tab->Controller sub-category.

• NeedleLock : When set Yes, touching the Progress wave on the Display will not have move the track if the Deck is audible
  
• jogOnairDisplay : When set to Yes, the ring of the CDJ-2000NXS2 platter will change color if the Deck is audible.
  
• screenAutoScratchview : When enabled the screen view will automatically change to the Decks ( Scratch ) view when a new track is loaded from the Browser view
  

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For further Technical features and specifications, visit
Pioneer CDJ-2000NXS2
Product's Page

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