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| quote: | | The mixer sports a new and original feature - the 'X-FX' system - enabling an external effects processor to be easily interfaced. A single knob controls the proportion of the channel signal sent to the effects unit, from 0 to 100%, and the affected signal is returned to the main mix, or can be routed through the filter. |
You know, up until a week or two ago I would have applauded this. But after having done a few recent gigs on the DJM-500/600 series (which has the same type of function for send/recieve) I realize that the Xone 92's method of indivudal Aux 1/2 controls per channel is superior.
The problem I ran into is this: say I have one deck playing a track, and from the other deck I run the signal into my EFX-1000 and make a Feedback Loop, which I leave running over the track. With the fader now up (so that the loop is audable), I can no longer cue on this channel at all.
Now, I would have assumed that if I were to get my Loop from a deck on channel 1, I could just open the fader on empty channel 2, then switch the send/receive from channel 1 to channel 2, effectively moving the return channel--and thus the Loop--from 1 to 2, allowing me to then cue on channel 1's deck. But in practice this did not work. If I had a loop running on one channel, any attempt to switch channels silenced the loop for some inexplicable reason. If I switched back to the channel from which it came, the loop would come back (but I still couldn't cue).
So for me, unless I can alternate which channels recieve a loop from my EFX-1000, then this send/recieve feature won't work. Actually, I just realzed that there's no good fucking reason why that shouldn't work just fine, and that the DJM-500/600 series are just retarded.
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NEW MIX [Feb/March 2008]
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