Pioneer DDJ-FLX4

The DDJ-FLX4 is a two-deck controller, and the one openDJ is tested with most. Plug it in over USB and it works: openDJ loads its mapping by itself, and the pads, sync and effects follow what's on screen.

On Windows, quit rekordbox or any other DJ app first, since only one app can use the controller at a time.

Decks

• PLAY/PAUSE and CUE work as on any Pioneer deck. SHIFT + CUE jumps to the start of the track. SHIFT + PLAY/PAUSE plays backwards while held, and the track carries on where it would have been (censor).
• The jog wheel: the top of the platter scratches, the rim bends the tempo to nudge a mix back in line. SHIFT + jog searches through the track quickly.
• TEMPO: up is slower, as on Pioneer gear. To have it the other way, turn on Tempo fader direction in Settings › Decks.
• BEAT SYNC turns sync on, and a second press turns it off, as SYNC on screen does. Hold it to make that deck the master. SHIFT + BEAT SYNC changes the tempo range.
• SHIFT + a channel's CUE turns quantize on or off for that deck.

Loops

• LOOP IN and LOOP OUT make a loop of any length. With SHIFT, the jog wheel moves the loop's start or end.
• RELOOP/EXIT starts a loop of the length shown on screen where the track is playing, or leaves the loop that's playing.
• CUE/LOOP CALL ‹ and › halve and double the loop.

See Looping.

Pads

The pad mode buttons open the deck's pad tabs on screen, and the pads play whatever page is in that tab:

Stems: press KEYBOARD twice to turn its pads into the stems pads, in the same layout as on screen, and again to go back. SHIFT + a stem's pad plays that stem alone. You can also right-click a tab on screen and put STEMS in it, for example in place of the sampler, and that button then gives you stems.

In SAMPLER mode each side's pads play the eight sounds on screen for that deck (see Sampler).

Mixer

TRIM, EQ HI/MID/LOW, the channel faders and the crossfader work as expected. CUE sends a channel to the headphones, HEADPHONES MIXING blends cue and main in the headphones, and MASTER LEVEL and HEADPHONES LEVEL set those levels.

When the mixer on screen is switched to STEMS or SCULPT (the menu over the meters), the controller's EQ knobs follow it.

Effects

• The CFX knobs play each channel's Color FX. SHIFT + SMART CFX steps through them.
• The BEAT FX section plays openDJ's Beat FX: BEAT FX SELECT steps through the effects (SHIFT goes back), BEAT ‹ › halve and double its length, CH SELECT picks deck 1, deck 2 or both, LEVEL/DEPTH sets how much you hear, and ON/OFF turns it on. SHIFT + ON/OFF releases it, letting its tail ring out.

Browser

• Turn BROWSE to move through the track list, and press it to move between the list and the tree on the left. SHIFT + press zooms the waveforms.
• LOAD loads the selected track onto that deck.
• SHIFT + left LOAD shows the tracks linked to the selected one.
• SHIFT + right LOAD goes to the next of your layouts (VIEW; see Your layouts).

Decks 3 and 4

In the 4-Deck layout, click deck 3's number to move the controller's left side to deck 3, and deck 1's number to move it back. Deck 4 and deck 2 do the same for the right side. See Layouts.

Every control

Pioneer DDJ-FLX4 in Supported controllers lists every control of the mapping and what it does, with and without SHIFT. The Controller Editor in openDJ shows the same with a picture of the controller: press a control and the list jumps to it.

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