uSolo FX media player review

This is a picture of a digital media player. It looks not much like an iPod, but it does? There is no indication of Zune here, we do not believe. In fact, it looks a lot like a CDJ unit, and this is for a reason: it looks like a physical media-loving digital disc jockey's unit, but without the 5-inch slot at the front. Instead, it has USB and SD port up top. If you are a DJ, you may be familiar with the rest: navigate your folders to find a song, cue up with the jog wheel, and mix it up. -DJ tech, which only began operations in the United States in the last year, the uSolo FX as its flagship unit it has with its competition from giants like pioneer and Numark compare? Read on to find out!

If you do not already have a DJ (shame on you!) or have not seen yet the thrill a traditional CDJ unit to use, we will give you a quick primer on this device, and, by extension, this class of devices. Take your audio files (WAV or MP3 in this case, a USB or SD storage device of less than 250 GB stored), and enter an extreme amount of control over these files as you would play. This gigantic jog wheel in the Centre-which has a vibrant LED ring, the time with the clock-to to scrub through the song keeps you can track, slow it down, or do a satisfactory Wikka Wikka scratch sound, if you are so inclined. We are pretty psyched on the jog wheel in this particular piece of hardware. It is actually divided into two discrete parts: a flat point feeling and touch-sensitive top and a pockmarked hard plastic exterior. Top spinning acts like a real piece of vinyl on a turntable: when you touch it stop; If you rotate it backwards, you play the song in the opposite direction. The page control is a different story: If you rotate it backwards, it will bend over the pitch, you is how fast back-spinning.
On the right side is a pitch bend fader, which can slow down or speed up your song up to 100 percent. To see the LCD screen, you have a looping section of your song in a place for keep, as long as you would care to make you. As a nice bonus to the uSolo FX, a section is integrated effects on the left side of the device. The parameters for the solid sounding Flanger, filter, and echo effects determine the jog wheel two control areas.

They uSolo FX admirable using all our typical situations carried out. It felt solid put together and looked like something to be on stage with pride. The extra touches, all use as brushed aluminium brake and startup speed buttons, the way to the device as a MIDI controller and data sharing / pairing functions with other units, the Expeience Add. We have a few minor gripes: you have a huge library, it will take a few minutes to index your songs. We could also have a little more significance in the FX section and the supplied Databox playlist is the management software only for Windows.

The real story with the uSolo FX, but is the price. We are at a time when more and more people are exploring DJ culture and using digital tools to change they way they interact with music. At $549, we are not sure, what is this device target group - its closest analogue, the pioneer CDJ-200, you run about $500 pioneer unit must not much in the way of the integrated FX, and although it relies on CDs, they can be MP3-CDs. And if you are currently started get digital DJing, you'll probably want to with your computer and its library with an interface along the lines of the BEHRINGER's $200 BCD3000 unit interface.

It admits some price pressure on the uSolo FX from low-cost end of the scale. Gemini can be CDJ-210, which had for less than $200, plays MP3, been burned to a CD-R and will not give you reading a USBGer?t, taxes, MIDI, or effects. Cheaper models in this space-such as the Gemini-feel almost universal such as toys, also unlike the uSolo FX, but to less than half of the price, it is hard to ignore for someone looking for more control over their files.

For those, for this very specific solution, aber-- a USB enabled media player without the hassle of burning on CD and with built-in effects and MIDI-you have it here. Experienced digital jocks also may have a place in the coffin for this dude and with his TRAKTOR and Serato controller capabilities, it has certainly a lot to offer. We just really wish it were cheaper. At $300 or less it could have a little more physical fun in playing their music in the growing community of people looking to make a name, but it looks like you need deep pockets to justify property.

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