And at around $150 apiece, they are inexpensive enough that you can start with one and add on another if you feel like you want more control. Again, I would always prefer a pair of these, though. On the left of the controller, there are deck-selector buttons, and they are easily visible and easy to jump between modes if you only have one in your setup. In fact, at a recent gig, I left the TRRS 1/8-inch linking cable behind, and had to play the whole night with just one NEON, which was actually really easy (though I was bummed I couldn’t have both). In Use: I can run these in my live setup as a pair, or solo. I’ve been rocking with them live now for a few weeks and I love them so far. I can throw these things around, in and out of my DJ bag without a worry that I am going to damage them or something else in my bag. The rest of the buttons on the unit, other than the 8-pad bank, are a click-press-select type, which is good feedback for me when switching between different control modes. The pads have a really nice MPC-style feel, which I find to be the perfect level of firmness. They don’t feel cheap or flimsy at all, and they take up very little room. I have two of them in my live setup, and having them both in my DJ bag is barely noticeable. It is tough, sturdy, and amazingly lightweight. That press-dry/wet pad setup is sweet.īuild & Layout: The unit is really well-built. You can set them up to control three separate effects per deck, or one-your choice. Before I got the NEONs, I didn’t mess with Serato’s DJ FX panel much, but the Pad FX buttons make it so much fun. Really cool MIDI feedback/output going on there. As you apply more or less pressure, the color of the pad changes beneath your finger. If you are in “Pad FX” mode on the NEON, the touch-sensitive pads act as pressure pad knobs, in which the dry/wet control for any audio effect can be controlled by your finger pressure. More specifically, when the bank of eight pads is set to hot cues, the pads are RGB-color-matched to the cue-point colors you select in Serato DJ, which is awesome. In every unique function mode on the NEON, the pads and selector buttons change to a different color, which is super helpful when determining if you are about to trigger a cue point or a sample on Serato DJ’s SP-6 sample player. In the demo, or “Vegas” mode (as their technician corrected me), the pads light up like Christmas trees! Who doesn’t like bright colorful lights? The colors are all there for a reason, though, and that was one of my main attractions to using these in my live setup. Getting Started: When I first plugged in the NEON, it just looked fun-I knew I was in for a treat. But I’ve never used them with DVS until I got my hands on the NEON. I’ve had Serato DJ on my computer for some time now, mainly for experimentation, and I’ve used the all-in-one controllers that my friends have. Let’s just begin by saying: the NEON was the final deciding factor in my complete switch to Serato DJ from Scratch Live. Though, in my view, there isn’t an add-on DJ controller that’s 100-percent perfect, this one comes awfully, awfully close for me. In fact, it was one that resulted in glee and excitement, as I’ve been waiting for a controller like this for quite a while now. My first encounter with the Reloop NEON pad controller for Serato DJ was memorable.
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