The Pioneer DVJ-X1 Professional DVD Video/CD Player Ground-breaking. Unique. This exciting blend of technologies Innovative. Astonishing. allows synchronised digital audio DVJ-X1: The Ultimate and video to be manipulated and The Pioneer DVJ-X1 is all of these. And played-back like never before. And more. Quite simply, this revolutionary by combining the skills of today’s new unit is the future of DJing and top DJs and VJs, DVJ-X1 users will Entertainment Experience audio-visual entertainment. deliver an original audio/video experience every time. The world’s first professional digital video-and-audio player, So, the DVJ-X1 not only creates a Suddenly a huge sun is dazzling the crowd from the the DVJ-X1 combines Pioneer’s completely new market for clubs and screen. The chorus of the track rings out, loud and clear. market-leading CD Jog Wheel bars to exploit, it also offers crowds technology and CD audio player a fresh form of entertainment and There’s a roar of approval. capabilities with the flexibility and paves the way for a new breed of capacity of DVD Video. performer – the DVJ. 2 Imagine the scene… deeply rhythmic track without warning, and vision… The deep bass pounds flutters her eyes provocatively, a The crowd’s on the edge, waiting to looping in perfect time to the out more insistently, as lightning windsurfer zips across the surface of erupt. They raise their arms to The underground club is a maze of thumping bass-line. The stark contrast flashes emerge from the clouds. a lake and a beautiful girl shakes water acknowledge the current club darkened rooms and corridors, and between the two audio tracks is Soon, these arcs of light are droplets from her hair. The pattern favourite and the air is flooded swarming crowds. The floor fills as a dark reinforced by the images on-screen… interspersed with a repeated image repeats for a few bars until the images with hands. Suddenly, the home- and menacing tribal track thunders of fireworks in the sky: four are reversed… and then reversed movie has gone and a huge sun is out over the PA and a time-lapse video The rain clouds darken as, out of explosions to every 4-beat bar. In again. The movement gets faster and dazzling the crowd from the screen. of a gathering storm looms on the huge nowhere, a line of dancers flash vision, the crowd has been taken faster as the backwards-forwards The chorus of the track rings out, screens suspended above. across the screens - then disappear from one of Nature’s own light motion reflects the increasing speed loud and clear. There’s a roar of and return. The dancers steps are shows to an example of the Man- of the audio. approval. Nobody on the floor has The DVJ is in control… synchronised to a double beat in the made version… ever felt such intensity of experience audio, in a teasing take-off of the But now, the loop of the disco-hit is in a club before; this awe-inspiring The crowd shouts out for more as the disco-moves from that earlier decade. As the audio continues, the DVJ mixes blending into the vocal hook of combination of sound and vision… audio mix intensifies. A sample from The club-goers love it, electrified and beat-matches some home-movie another floor-filler and this new track a 70s’ disco anthem breaks into the by the dynamics of the mix in sound footage into the visuals. A pretty girl begins to dominate… The DVJ-X1 in action 3 In 1995, Pioneer was one of the ten context, it took 20 years – more than founding members of the DVD twice as long – for VHS players to DVJ-X1: Making History Forum, the worldwide trade become so popular. association for DVD hardware and software manufacturers. Since then, Spurred by DVD’s popularity, the the company has been at the music video share of overall music forefront of DVD technology sales already represents 6.3% of developments and instrumental in global music sales, increasing by 67% its success around the globe. in 2003**. The popularity of the DVD format is * Screen Digest ** International Federation of the Phonographic Industry obvious – by 2007 66% of all Western European households will own a DVD player.* To put this into 4 The DVD decade has coincided with The result? A series of stunningly The dual functionality of the DVJ-X1 – making it even easier to handle. Either way, DVJs will discover how a revival in the club scene and the designed CDJ players that are trusted makes it useful for clubs alternating Skilled users wanting to exploit the easy it is to operate the DVJ-X1, to arrival of digital DJs – a phenomenon and endorsed by the world’s top DJs between digital DJs and the new full potential of this professional control the music and images closely associated with Pioneer’s and venues. performers – the DVJs – who will DVD /CD player will no doubt together, and to push their Pro DJ brand. find that the new machine has a explore the unit’s sound-with-vision creativity to a whole new level. The New Club Standard similarly ergonomic layout to the capability. Since launching its first digital CDJ audio-only unit. player in 1994, the company has Pioneer’s revolutionary DVJ-X1 This allows the DVJ to use images combined leading-edge technology – uses the industry-standard CDJ- For example, the DVJ-X1 has a Jog that reinforce and enhance the style including the legendary Jog Wheel 1000MK2 CD player as its template, Wheel that uses Vinyl Emulation of music being played, either by that’s used to scratch, speed up or slow with the added bonus of DVD video technology to recreate the feel of a working in harmony with the audio down a track, or manually fine-tune playback capabilities. traditional deck for CD playback, as or by acting as a dramatic counter- cue points – with extremely durable well as a Wave Display that allows point instead. components and superb functions. DVJs to see a track’s peaks and troughs 5 The DVJ-X1 can playback a variety With professionally produced DVD of CD and DVD formats*. Digital content, such as a promotional music DVJ-X1: The Art of the DVJ videos might be the result of footage video available for re-use, the DVJ taken by the DVJ, armed with a can choose to mix just the audio digital camcorder. Or they could be content into the track playing out, specially commissioned material or else use the images only. This (perhaps with an audio-mix already allows video footage to be used for in mind) or clips from a range of comic or dramatic effect, or simply publicly available sources. as a direct, visual representation of Alternatively, they could be the what’s being played through the special videos created by the dance sound system. labels themselves, which are now becoming increasingly common. * The DVJ-X1 does not play the following formats: DVD-Audio (192 KHz 24-bit), Super Audio CDs or MP3. 6 Whatever the source, the moving Magnificent Memory automatically loops four beats images can be controlled in unison seamlessly, in line with the BPM. with the audio via the easy-to-use The DVJ-X1 offers enormous scope for This allows the DVJ extra time to mix Jog Wheel. This means that DVJs can flexibility in performance, not least by from one track to another. simultaneously control images and allowing the DVJ to store up to 360 AV sound in exactly the same way as a loop and cue points on the removable *SD card storage capacity subject to change. DJ would manipulate music alone. 32-MB* SD card that’s also supplied. Real-time digital video scratches, loops The saved cue and loop points can be and instant cues are all possible. And searched, selected and previewed using the video and audio streams always an external monitor connected via the stay in perfect sync, even when being preview output. There’s also an reversed or pitched. emergency loop feature that 7 Digital technology from Touch Sensor although the start up speed is adjustable. Pioneer’s famous CDJ deck now By lightly pressing the top of the Jog DVJ-X1: Functions enables precise control of Wheel, images and sound stop Frame Search image and sound. immediately. When the Wheel is By rotating the Jog Wheel during a released, they restart instantly. pause, the pause location can be With the large and easy-to-use jog dial shifted in units of 1/75 second, & Features you can simultaneously control images Scratch allowing for extremely accurate audio and sound just the way you want to. In Vinyl mode, press the top of the jog / video cueing. The two-layer structure of the Jog Dial dial to stop play, then manually rotate lets you use it for different operations: the Jog Wheel with the top still pressed Hyper Jog scratch using the top of the jog and to enable “scratch” control of images Selecting Hyper Jog Mode in Vinyl pitch bend using the side. The smooth, and sound according to the speed and Mode doubles the speed that sound heavy feeling enables extremely precise direction of the rotation. Releasing the and images respond when manually and delicate control. Wheel resumes normal playback, rotating the Jog Wheel. 8 Adjust the track speed Tempo Control Reset the play button is pushed. Real Time Seamless Loop loop has been cancelled, it’s possible Speed up the tempo by moving the Regardless of the position of the Repeatedly plays images and sound to return to the designated loop for high performance 100mm tempo slider tempo slider, the DVJ can select Fader Start without interrupting the chosen continued loop play.