The Stanton DJC.4 is a mid-level Virtual DJ controller; well built, with lots of decent features.
Stanton has debuted its latest DJ controller, the DJC.4, which like the Reloop Beatmix that we announced earlier today, is designed specifically for use with Virtual DJ.
The controller is built to a higher level of quality than, say, the company’s own SCS.4DJ (and the Reloop controller), being finished with decent rubberised controls, lots of metal and higher-end features such as a replaceable crossfader, standalone mixer capability (phono/line) and balanced master outputs (no booth though) – and is to be priced keenly at “mid 300s” in dollars.
Designed to work tightly with Virtual DJ’s feature set, the controller has hot cues, sampler triggers and loop controls in a bank of twelve backlit buttons for each deck. The effects section is comprehensive and includes fader effects, similar to those on the Novation Twitch.
While the mixer is only two channel, it does work with four decks via a deck layer switch for each side, and there’s also a video switch to enable both video and audio crossfading.
The Stanton DJC.4 is compact, with small but high quality jogwheels.
The external inputs can be routed through Virtual DJ (I’m assuming this will only be with the Pro version and not with the supplied version, which more than likely will be LE although I’ve not confirmed this), or alternatively just straight through the unit as true analogue throughs.
There is external power which I guess will be necessary for use as a standalone mixer, but the unit works fine as a Midi controller using bus power.
There’s crossfader curve and jog sensitivity adjusters – and speaking of the jogs, they’re small but nice to use and have the usual two-way action (nudge/scratch) depending on whether you touch the edge or the top of the wheels.
My guess on availability is May/June.
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Do you like the look of this controller? What do you think of the mix of features, and the deliberately tight integration with Virtual DJ? Let us know your thoughts in the comments…
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I want one of these sooooo bad.. how can i get more info on this? or maybe even become a tester?
[ link ]Ha ha you’ll have to ask Stanton that, not us!
[ link ]any info on how to get sponsored? Or info on how/who to contact?
[ link ]Any word on when this will become available
[ link ]Quite soon I’d say from what I’m hearing.
[ link ]I’m interested to see how its performance is, because to me $400 seems too good to be true for all these features
[ link ]Stanton been around for a long time, but they never realy made that realy good stuff.
[ link ]Got a pair of Stanton pro 3000 headphones some weeks ago, they broke after 2 gigs.
Stanton never gonna make it to the top, lots of odd stuff, no good quality.
I just got the N4, because Numark delivers good quality and no stupid ideas like Stanton…….
From what we’ve seen of this controller, it has no “stupid ideas” and is built to a high standard. You generalise too much.
[ link ]Hey why has Virtual DJ become the preferred software to be bundled with these new controllers? Why not Traktor?
[ link ]I guess since Traktor is doing controllers, they don’t need to sell oem licences any more.
[ link ]The price of the oem licences is still high for Traktor ones and you won’t have the latest feature, so not a good deal to do a bundle with.
Read this and you might have a better understand as to ‘Why?’ – http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/12/how-dj-software-gets-bundled-with-controllers/
[ link ]Fader FX on VDJ sound delicious. People may give Stanton a hard time for some funky gear they have released in the last 3 years but at least they try to think outside the box and be innovative not like some other companies who just sale whatever clone knock offs their Chinese manufactures throws at them.
@ Rattfink – Stanton tried Traktor and Traktor users didn’t step up to the plate an support the gear so it looks like they have now turned to VDJ
Looks like a pretty decent kit and the price seems like a bargain for the features they are promising.
[ link ]Hmmm so Stanton have totally cut ties with NI then. In regards to quality their decks are beyond compare. They piss all over Technics and always have. Their digital products however are another matter entirely. I have the SCS3 system which has been nothing but trouble and the online support is, well, non existent. The guys at Focusrite do their best but its tough as they’re merely distributors. Let’s hope its just a hiccup as Stanton become fully amalgamated into Gibson. If not, a great underground reputation will be damaged. Reputations take years to build and moments to destroy.
[ link ]is this an expensive toy, or a cheap profesional controler
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