
They are touch sensitive, and are very responsive. These jogwheels are what you find on the majority of DJ controllers on the market. Capacitive jogwheels The Denon DJ Prime 4 all-in-one standalone system has touch-sensitive capacitive jogwheels.
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What I just described is sometimes referred to as “vinyl” mode, and some DJ gear – including pro CDJs and media players – allows you to turn off this behaviour, so the whole jogwheel effectively acts as a “nudge” device, no matter where you touch it. This is used to keep beatmixes in time by making small, momentary adjustments to the playing speed. Meanwhile, spinning the wheel either clockwise or anticlockwise but via the edge speeds the track up or slows it down slightly, and is called “nudging”. With all jogwheels, usually touching the top “stops” the music, and while you’re touching it your hand movements then allow you to move backwards and forwards, allowing you to scratch and cue the music. While each performs the same basic function, they all have their own characteristics. In this article and its accompanying video, I talk you through the three main types that between them feature on the vast majority of DJ hardware.
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Knowing the different types can be useful because it may be a factor you take into consideration when you’re choosing what DJ gear to buy or to upgrade to. Originally designed to imitate what DJs do with vinyl on turntables, as DJ technology has developed, the jogwheel has evolved along with it. The jogwheel is almost synonymous with digital DJing.
