They still have lag but much much less than the models with the first versions of the rom.
Why digital? Because that's the purpose of the X9, they designed it to be the first digital dj mixer! You enter either digital, or the analog signal gets converted right at the input. Everything you do is in the digital domain. Only at the complete end of the chain the signal gets converted to analog again.
Basically you could say the x9 is a control surface with an integrated computer. But everything has been done to keep it as "analog feeling" as possible (tweakable knobs and faders and stuff like that). Most people said to me : yeah but if you look at the vu it looks pretty much like an analog mixer. Well they designed it that way. Remember you are in the digital domain, and shooting over 0dB means clipping and bad, very bad distortion. But they also know much (if you ask me far too much) dj's like to mix with their end vu over the red (because it goes louder they say, my a**). So the 0dB you see on the X9 vu meter is really only -14 or so dBFs. If you look at it the technical way, you'd have to admit it's not really recommendable because you don't use the full dynamic range of the DAC's (and that's preferable to get the best out of the dac's) but for live situations with djing, it's pretty obvious they had to keep a pretty big margin.
Feb-23-2003 20:13
JohnSmith
Agent Smith
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Kamloops
hrm.. so you CAN'T switch it out of digital? it has no analog procesing whatsoever? i think that kinda sucks.
(my original post here about distortion was off topic, so i made a new thread for it)
That's why the mixer is so "revolutionary", it's supposedly the first digital dj mixer.
Feb-24-2003 20:35
DJ Tranz
Mafiya Beatts
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: SoCal --- LATA # 99
quote:
Originally posted by Dj Thy
That's why the mixer is so "revolutionary", it's supposedly the first digital dj mixer.
I don't know, I keep reading everywhere that it is ANALOG/DIGITAL depending on which inputs are used, it's not like the numark PPD01 power by Alesis, which is 100% PURE DIGITAL.
DJM3000 says same thing, analog/digital...?
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Feb-25-2003 00:01
apa
tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Örebro, Sweden
We all know that Tescam mixers sucks. It's most suited for cd-decks where the cd-decks themselves are digital. Why would you have digital? Is there any reason? And like someone said it's best to buy where you know what you are going to use when mixing, like the basic stuff and maybe as it's best internal effects or either support for external ones. I think quality goes before features. That's what i think.
Feb-25-2003 16:23
Dj Thy
Deckhead
Registered: May 2001
Location: Belgium, Earth
Nah I opened up the X9 (that's what you get as privilege to review stuff) and it definately converts the analog signal to digital right after the input.
In theory a full digital mixer would be better than analog. In the analog domain ever processing you do (even EQ'ing) would degrade the signal (adding noise, changing phase, etc...). But those positive points won't do much if they don't get the usability of the machine down...
