Your library, straight on your CDJs

What is DeckConnect?

DeckConnect makes your computer show up on your players the way Rekordbox does. Lexicon speaks Pro DJ Link, the network protocol Rekordbox uses to talk to CDJs, so your players list your Lexicon library as a source, next to their own USB and SD slots.

Nothing is copied to a stick. When you load a track, the player reads it straight from your computer, together with its cues, beatgrid, waveforms and album art. It is the quickest way to try new tracks on real gear and set your cues where your hands will be on the night.

What you can do with it

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Browse your library on the player

Your playlists and folders show up on the player, with an All Tracks list on top. The player's search keyboard works, and on players with a filter screen you can filter by BPM, key, rating, colour and MY TAG, which shows your Lexicon tags.

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Load tracks from Lexicon

Drag a track from the track browser onto a deck in the deck bar, right click it and choose Load into..., or press a deck number on a search result. You can also give each deck a hotkey.

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Everything comes with the track

Hot cues, memory cues and loops, the beatgrid (Dynamic grids too), colour waveforms, keys, ratings, colours and album art all load with the track, the same as from a USB made with Lexicon.

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Set cues on real gear

Add or delete a cue on the player and it shows up in Lexicon right away. Set your cues with the jog wheel and pads you play on, and skip the export, eject and re-import round trip.

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See what is on every deck

The deck bar under the music player shows each player with its model name and the track it has loaded, also when you loaded that track on the player itself.

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Suggestions that follow your decks

Ghost Curator can follow your connected players and suggest what to play next for the track on the deck. Drop a suggestion on a deck and it loads on the player.

How it works

Your computer and your players join the same network. Lexicon announces itself there as a Pro DJ Link device, the players list it as a source, and when you load a track the player streams the audio file from your computer. Your music stays where it is, and Lexicon sees what every deck has loaded.

How to start DeckConnect

Setting it up takes a few minutes, and you only do most of it once.

1

Connect your players to your network

Plug each player into the same network as your computer with an Ethernet cable: into your router, a network switch, or the LINK hub of your mixer. With a single player, a cable straight from the player to your computer works too.

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Turn on DeckConnect

In Lexicon, open Settings, go to Integrations and turn on Enable DeckConnect. Lexicon restarts, and the DeckConnect panel appears in the music player. You can show or hide it later with View > Toggle DeckConnect.

3

Quit Rekordbox

Rekordbox uses the same network ports, so only one of the two can talk to your players. If Rekordbox is still running, the DeckConnect panel tells you and offers to quit it.

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Click Connect

Lexicon looks for players on your network and shows the ones it finds. Click Connect. The first time, allow Lexicon through the Windows Firewall, or give it Local Network access on macOS, when Lexicon asks. Turn on Auto-connect to CDJs in the same settings to connect by itself whenever your players are on.

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Load a track

Your players appear in the deck bar. Drag a track onto a deck, or choose your computer as the source on the player and browse your Lexicon library there. To stop, click the power button next to the DeckConnect status.

Supported players

DeckConnect works with network-capable Pioneer DJ and AlphaTheta CDJ and XDJ players: players that connect to Rekordbox over Pro DJ Link with a network cable. It has been used with these players, among others:

Older players cannot play every file. FLAC and ALAC need a recent model such as the CDJ-3000X, CDJ-3000, CDJ-2000NXS2, XDJ-AZ or XDJ-1000MK2, and some players reject WAV files above 48 kHz. When a player cannot open a track, Lexicon tells you why. To check your library before a gig, see CDJ Compatibility.

Good to know

Common questions