AlphaTheta DDJ-FLX2 Review: A Great Entry-Level DJ Controller Leave a comment

That’s to not say there are not any points. The jog wheels are unimpressive at greatest. They’re useful for locating your home in a music, however I can’t think about making an attempt to scratch or do any actual DJ tips with them. Limiting its usefulness in a dwell setting is the truth that there’s no mic enter, and the one two audio outputs (cue and foremost) are 3.5-mm TRS jacks. It’ll do the job in the event you’re simply trying to apply at dwelling or DJ a small home social gathering, however in the event you confirmed as much as a membership with this, you’d undoubtedly get some appears.

Wonderful Integrations

Likelihood is, no matter your most popular DJ app or whether or not you’re utilizing an iPad or a laptop computer and even an Android telephone, the DDJ-FLX2 ought to work along with your setup. I examined it with a MacBook Professional, a six-year-old Dell XPS, a base-model iPad from 2021, and a Google Pixel 7. I had few points when connecting over USB-C (aside from the port on my Pixel being extraordinarily flaky).

Getting related to the iPad over Bluetooth might have been a bit extra seamless, and I by no means managed to get it to work in any respect with my telephone. That being mentioned, due to the latency Bluetooth introduces, it’s not likely excellent for DJing anyway.

AlphaTheta says that the DDJ-FLX2 is suitable with Rekordbox, Algoriddim Djay, and Serato DJ Lite, although I solely examined it with the primary two. Since AlphaTheta additionally makes Rekordbox, it’s unsurprising that integration there may be the tightest. It really works precisely as you’d anticipate proper out of the field, and the labels on the {hardware} mirror the terminology you’d discover in app. In the event you haven’t dedicated to a specific DJing platform but, Rekordbox is price exploring since there’s a surprisingly feature-rich free model. Plus it helps streaming from SoundCloud, Beatport, Beatsource and Tidal, in case you’re nonetheless constructing out your library at this stage of your DJing profession.

I principally used it with Djay nevertheless, since that’s the software program I used to be skilled on after I joined the ranks of Maker Park Radio all these years in the past. Plus, it has Apple Music integration, which makes it simpler for me so as to add issues to my rotation on quick discover and with minimal fuss. The FLX2 labored out of the field with out subject with Algoriddim’s Djay Professional software program, although the labeling and naming conventions don’t all the time line up which may result in some confusion.

Usable in Actual Life

Along with training at dwelling, I DJed a few episodes of my radio present with the FLX2 and even experimented with doing quick seamless blocks of dance music on air. The Good Fader perform made it easy for a noob like myself to transition between tracks with the help of filter and echo results, whereas smoothing over small discrepancies in tempo. And after I wished a bit of extra time to verify I had every part lined up or wished to do a mini mashup into the following observe, the loop pads labored like a allure. I wouldn’t say I’m able to DJ an enormous venue, however I really feel a bit of extra assured indulging in dance mixes on my present now.