Pioneer CDJ-400 Professional Digital Turntable

USB Integration & MP3 Playback
The CDJ-400’s cosmetic design is simple and compact yet elegant with all of its various controls and features located directly on top of the unit. A USB port found on the face of the player allows DJs to play their MP3 Music collection from a wide variety of portable music devices such as thumb drives, MP3 players or external hard drives. With the use of a multi-function selector knob/button and its large, bright, dot-matrix LCD display, locating and accessing of files from these types of music devices as well as MP3 music files on CD and CD-R/RW through the CD slot are done with a turn and press of the knob.

DJ Software Compatibility and MIDI Control
With more of today’s DJs utilizing different DJ software for their performances, the CDJ-400 is also equipped with a PC mode. In this mode, the CDJ-400 is a native controller for software such as Pioneer DJS Computer software and Serato Scratch Live. For example, the movement of the Pitch slider on the CDJ-400 can control the pitch slider on the computer software and no time code CD is required for Audio control. The player can also act as a MIDI controller were you can assign virtually every button on the player to trigger functions of various DJ software programs.

World’s First Scratch Jog Effect
A highlight and an advancement of the CDJ-400 is its scratching capability. In addition to traditional “vinyl" mode scratching, Pioneer implemented the World’s First Scratch Jog Effect. Three highlighted buttons, each assigned to a special effect, Bubble, Trans and Wah, creates unique scratching Sound effects that can be enabled by the DJ on the fly. A “hold" button was also added to retain the different effects throughout the session or until its release, which can also be triggered at any point of play.

Digital Loop functions: A variety of loops can be created for additional audio effects

Beat Loop: Automatically creates a four beat loop based on the tempo of the music (BPM) being played

Loop Divide: Rhythmically divides the loop to create different patterns

Hot Loop: Restarts the loop seamlessly from its entry without interruption of the music

Digital Jog Break: In CD mode the CDJ-400 contains three effects, Jet, Roll and Wah, which further enhances the audio by simply rotating the jog dial; the same buttons for the Scratch Jog Effect are assigned to the Digital Jog Break which are accessible at any point of play

Tempo Control: Four tempo modes, ±6%, ±10%, ±16% and wide, provide additional speed control with a Resolution of 0.02% in the 6% range

Cue/Loop Points: Up to 10 cue/loop points per disc, for up to 920 discs, can be stored to player’s Memory

Jog Indicator: A red halo illumination around the jog provides instantaneous visual feedback to the DJ

Customizable Jog Wheel: You can create your own customized image to insert under the removable jog wheel top