* Hang on, you may be saying, DJ program? I thought it was an iPod DJ station? Well, it is and it isn’t… but more about that later on. So what’s different about the iDJ3 over the Mixtrack? Three crucial things: It’s got the same style of controls, including the great jogwheels that make the Mixtrack so much fun. It also has the same cheapish feel to it, although once you start using these new Numark controllers you forget that – and they are keenly priced after all. The first thing to note is that the Numark iDJ3 looks like a stretched Mixtrack. Let’s delve a little deeper… The controls are laid out sensibly and there are some nice touches, including good illumination feedback from the buttons. You’d think from looking at it that it’s a logical development from the iDJ2, allowing you to mix on two decks from one iPod but with the acclaimed styling and tactile feel of the Mixtrack. However, it is a controller from the time (not really so long back) when nobody had got scratching right on jogwheels on DJ controllers, and it has two small jogwheels that aren’t very good for club-style DJs at all. The iDJ2 is actually a practical piece of kit, and I have seen mobile DJs with it flight-cased at the heart of their setups. This was let down by one fatal flaw: Who has two iPods? This was followed by the iDJ2, which was a far more grown-up affair, which let you mix from one iPod, and had a cool colour screen for scrolling through your library etc. First Numark released the iDJ, which was a gimmicky dock for two iPods, letting you mix from each. Hot on the heels of our review of Numark’s runaway success the Mixtrack, comes a look at the more intriguing Numark iDJ3 DJ controller.Ī bit of history.
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