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(More customer reviews)As soon as I pulled this out of the box I could tell the build quality was excellent. It's really sturdy, not something that's going to warp or move around on you. The size is about that of a small textbook, minus the pots and platter. It feels real solid and has a good weight, but overall it's still pretty light. The nice rubber feet underneath means it won't move around just because you're getting energetic with it.
I plugged it in, and the lights came on, very nice. Definitely good for a dark club, everything is real visible and even the lights around the pots look great. Everything is color coded for easily distinguishing which deck/fx unit is active. The light in front of the platter lights up red/blue to show you if a track is loaded.
The rubber buttons are really clicky and honestly I think I like these more than normal plastic buttons. The problem with most rubber buttons is they're springy and it's easy to miss-hit them, but I haven't found that problem with these. Plus being rubber, they're a little more comfortable. The pots are clicky (meaning they aren't just free spinning) and sturdy, and you can press them in as buttons to enable/disable things.
Out of the box, it worked in VDJ 7. I didn't have to set anything up, it just worked. The FX units are mapped to deck 1/2 effects by default (since VDJ doesn't have a standalone FX unit, it's specific to each deck), and everything else performs just how you'd expect it to. The only thing that I noticed doesn't seem to work is the light under the platter doesn't light up in VDJ. I suspect I could get this to work by tweaking the mapping (all the notes for the LEDs are included in the instruction sheet, for mapping with arbitrary software). *Edit* it turns out I just wasn't reading. The SC2000 actually has toggles for bend/vinyl mode built right in, using the shift button, which in VDJ is displayed with this LED, so when I switch it into vinyl mode it lights up :)
For traktor (TP2) I had to download the tsi from denon's website (look under manuals...no idea why they didn't label it "downloads" or something). Once I imported it though, it worked great. The FX units behave like you'd expect (defaulting to the two standalone FX units that can be applied to decks individually using the fx 1/2 buttons). The platter light works in traktor.
The platter is great, it doesn't have any "travel" (movement up and down) but still very touch sensitive. I'm having trouble getting traktor to behave exactly how I want in conjunction with my hercules RMX jog wheels (scratch mode is inconsistent with both plugged in) but I mapped my hercules by hand so it could be something I did. The scratching works perfectly when the hercules isn't active.
The track search / browser controls are awesome as well. Shift + spin the dial to select the artist in your left pane, then release shift and spin it to select the track, and finally press it down to load the deck (make sure the deck you want to load to is the active selected deck on your SC2000 (in a single instance setup)).
Overall very great buy, I bought one just to add to my simple 2-deck jog controller, but I'm already pretty sure I'll be getting a second one. With 2, you can control 4 decks easy (2 each deck). The download comes with 2 tsi files (one for left/right, one for top/bottom) so you can choose a single or double configuration for your SC2000(s).
Only downside (if you can even call it that) is that obviously being digital/MIDI you can't use this with a normal mixer without extra work. That isn't my setup, though, since I use a software mixer, and doesn't impact me negatively.
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