The central idea to the Rekordbox 6 upgrade is the library’s capability to sync over different devices, allowing DJs to manage and prepare their tracks and playlists seamlessly from whichever device they choose and then potentially use their iOS device to perform on compatible CDJ/XDJ gear.Ĭloud Library Syncing only works with Dropbox cloud storage at this time.
Depending on your subscription level, those streaming services include the potential for auto-uploading offline tracks to Dropbox using the new Cloud Library Sync. In addition to its previous support for SoundCloud Go+ and Beatport Link, Rekordbox 6 has added support for the Inflyte music promo service and Beatsource Link. This includes the increasing momentum of building support for subscription music services into DJ software. Whether or not the timing is right for new expenses, digital DJing-along with so much other technology-is moving inexorably toward subscription models. Rekordbox 6 includes Cloud Library Sync to Dropbox, Mobile Library Sync between devices, 3Band waveform view, vocal position detection, and more. While the new Rekordbox 6 ecosystem offers some new advantages that anyone can enjoy with the free plan – such as Mobile Library Sync, which lets you sync playlists to Rekordbox iOS and then play your music off an iPhone from a connected CDJ or XDJ – the DVS control feature requires the Core subscription, and the marquee new feature of Cloud Library Syncing to Dropbox, along with the RMX effects, sequencer, video, and lyric functions, require the top-level Creative subscription.
See the full breakdown of Rekordbox 6 subscription plan features here.
With Pioneer DJ’s Rekordbox 6 music management and DJ performance software, you can keep your prep your music files from multiple devices, sync changes seamlessly in the cloud, and hook up your set’s tracks from an iPhone to CDJs to perform.īut is all that really worth the subscription price? Contributing writer Markkus Rovito tests the Rekordbox 6 Creative plan to see if pay-to-play is the way of the future.