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The Roland DJ-202 is a forward-thinking Serato DJ Intro controller that gives DJs the features and layout of a full-size professional controller in a rugged and portable unit. The compact DJ-202 preserves the concept of the flagship DJ-808 and streamlined DJ-505, allowing unparalleled flexibility to DJ, remix, and produce beats on the fly while performing live or creating in the studio. With its large, low-latency platters, dedicated pad and transport controls, onboard sequencer, and mic input with professional vocal FX, the DJ-202 packs in the most features of any controller in its class.
Firm jogwheels, better than any other similarly priced controller (DDJ-400/Mixtrack Pro) imo. Capacitive touch on the top and nudge on the side is nice, and reminiscent of more expensive CDJ units.
Everything is sensibly laid out and more or less where you'd expect it to be.
The 808/909 sequencer is a nice feature, but a little difficult to program and I wouldn't want to do this on-the-fly live - I mostly use it to have a four-to-the-floor kick pattern to hand to add a punch, especially over transitions.
For any producers out there, I have this controller on my desk in my home studio and it's been really useful in Logic Pro X (or whatever DAW you use) as all controls are mappable to parameters as control surfaces. Super useful to have an extra 16 knobs to hand!
1/4" jack outputs as well as RCA would be nice, but this is quite standard and not really an issue. Mic input is 1/4" jack only, no XLR.
You should note that this deck used to come with Serato DJ Pro software, but now only comes with Serato DJ Lite. Lite is useable for learning basics or if you're in a pinch but lacks some key features like fully-functioned beatmapping and even the option to show the key of each track, so you end up 'going in blind' to tracks if you don't already know what key they're in before you load them. Serato DJ Pro is £65 extra, but if you're using it a lot I would suggest that buying this is worth it over a cheaper controller.
The hardcoded TR Sequencer with the Roland Instruments, along with the combination of a Software Samples is probably the reason to buy this unit. Other than that, its a decent DJ Controller, but really, the TR Sequencer is making the unit unique.
