I've fooled around with turntable DJing in the past, but never graduated the school of beatmatching—once I hooked the Denon DS1 to my 1210s and got Serato DJ Pro up and running, though, things suddenly became much easier.
It's only been a day since the USB interface, software and control records arrived, but right out of the box, the system's learning curve was far from steep...almost—the initial setup itself involved a brief spat of my records not receiving a signal from the software and/or the software not recognizing the interface. BUT, the operative word is brief. After installing Serato, ensuring the Denon firmware is updated on my Macbook and restarting my computer, everything suddenly clicked and I began mixing.
One note: if you're using a standard analog turntable mixer rather than one that interfaces directly with Serato/your computer, route the outputs from the DS1 into the *auxiliary* inputs on said mixer, rather than the phono inputs you'd otherwise use. Otherwise, you'll get insane distortion in your audio. This is an issue I ran into, but easily resolved.
In sum, totally worth the money. I haven't even uncovered all the bells and whistles of the software itself, but as far as dragging tracks onto your decks and playing them back with your control records, it's almost as intuitive as playing actual records. Highly recommended.
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Product information
| Item Weight | 8.8 ounces |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions | 3.36 x 4.68 x 0.84 inches |
| ASIN | B00SHMK210 |
| Item model number | DS1 |
| Customer Reviews |
4.2 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #254,351 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments) #14 in DJ Digital Media Players #72,999 in Music Recording Equipment |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | February 5, 2015 |
| Compatible Devices | Speaker |
| Supported Software | Serato DJ Pro, Serato DVS Expansion Pack |
| Operating System | Windows |
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Great box pulling triple Duty!!!!
This is a great little box, plug and play with Serato, as good as the Rane boxes. This box doesn't do pass thru like the SL boxes, so if you need that feature you will be stuck with Rane. Also this box works with Virtual DJ no problems, and also I use this box with Rekordbox DJ. If you do plan to use it with Rekordbox you will have to make use of the Asio4All driver since Rekordbox has an issue handling the 64bit Denon driver. With this I finally said goodbye to Traktor, since their software seems to be going the opposite direction from my genre. All in all I feel this is a great product priced very competitive, well made (metal case), and I had 0 performance issues.
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First days works pretty fine, but after some days sound would be worse and worse!
I wrote to Denon support, they tell me - send item back to amazon, it’s need a warranty repair.
I bought new DS1 and after received, I sent a broken to amazon, they bring back my money.
With new DS - happens the same problem!!!!
I do Not Recommended!! Better buy SL3 or SL4 - it worth it!
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