Denon DJ’s MCX8000 Now Works with Engine Prime
Denon DJ has announced a major update to their Engine Prime v1.2.1 software and firmware. This update now enables the MCX8000 controller to be feature enhanced with Denon DJ’s standard-setting Engine Prime music management software, giving DJ’s unprecedented control over their digital music.
The MCX8000 will utilize Engine Prime optimized music libraries via its USB drives, and new performance and hardware features have also been added to the MCX8000 via its v2.0 firmware update. Improvements include microphone/recording workflow, beatgrid/sync and quantize enhancements, plus song browsing improvements.
In addition, Engine Prime itself has been improved, and this new version 1.2.1 has enhanced music library and track import features plus optimized playlist options, along with its newly-added MCX8000 database export support, giving the MCX8000 performance capabilities that are unmatched by virtually any controller currently available.
“With Engine Prime’s v1.2.1 update, added to the new v2.0 firmware, our award winning MCX8000 controller gets ‘Prime’ performance, plus workflow and software enhancements, empowering DJs to deliver more creativity, dancefloor impact and energy into their sets”, said Paul Dakeyne, Creative Director for Denon DJ. He added, “Our Engine Prime music management software is now more powerful than ever. To say we’re stoked is an understatement!”
Engine Prime 1.2.1
• MCX8000 Database Export support
• Playlists now rearrangeable
• Drag iTunes, Traktor and Serato parent crates/folders to Collection
• Faster iTunes and Serato library import
• Album/Song Artwork management faster and optimized
• Enhanced Loop control for quicker navigation through tracks