Explore new creative possibilities with the groundbreaking advancements in online and storage media support offered by the CDJ-3000X, which enables DJ performances to be more flexible than ever. The player fully supports playback from cloud storage and music streaming services, enhancing every stage of your workflow—from track preparation to playing live. Built-in Wi-Fi enables wireless internet access without the need for LAN cables, helping you set up quickly and smoothly in any environment. On the front panel, an NFC touchpoint allows you to instantly access online music by simply holding your smartphone—running the latest version of rekordbox for iOS/Android—over the reader. With just a CDJ-3000X and your phone, you can access your music library from anywhere in the world and start your set right away. The player is also equipped with a USB-C port for connecting to a USB storage device or Windows/Mac computer—enabling faster, seamless integration with the latest devices and computers.

Enhanced Browsing Experience: Go Beyond the Next Track

Browse, select, and manage your tracks more intuitively on the CDJ-3000X. The 10.1" high-resolution, capacitive touchscreen now displays up to 16 tracks in the browse screen. With better visibility and smooth control, you can find and play tracks quicker. For rapid searching, you can now copy track information and paste it straight into the search bar. And for the first time on a CDJ, you can edit playlists by reordering the tracks directly from the unit. Even better, if you’re using Cloud Library Sync, the changes you make will automatically be synced across all your devices. Manage tracks from various media sources, all in one playlist, with Global Tag List. You can tag tracks from multiple USB drives, cloud storage locations, and streaming services, so they all appear in a single list. Those from online sources will start downloading as soon as you tag them, minimizing load times to help make your performances smoother. Plus, the time it takes for track information to display when you’re using rekordbox CloudDirectPlay has been significantly reduced. Even when you’re browsing music stored online, it feels just as smooth as with USB drives.

Compatible with rekordbox CloudDirectPlay

Simply connect the CDJ-3000 to the internet via a Pro DJ Link connection with a LAN cable to start using rekordbox CloudDirectPlay. In advance, you’ll export an authentication key from rekordbox to a USB storage device which, when plugged into the CDJ-3000, enables you to browse and play all the tracks in your cloud-based library. *rekordbox Creative or Professional plan subscription is required.

Enhanced Hot Cue Features for Quicker Preparation and More Creativity

Dive into a new Hot Cue workflow that can help you analyze the structure of tracks in real time and perform more spontaneously. The CDJ-3000X includes the popular Touch Cue feature—which lets you listen to any point in a track through your headphones by pressing on the waveform—and introduces the option to set Hot Cues from the point you’re monitoring. For smoother cueing, turn on Smart Cue and the position and color of a called-up Hot Cue will automatically overwrite the current cue point. Gate Cue is available too, where sound plays only while you hold down a Hot Cue button, opening up new creative possibilities for tone play and other performance techniques. To use Smart Cue, you’ll need to enable Overwrite Current Cue with Hot Cue in the utility settings in advance.

Evolved Reliability and Usability: Ready for Any Stage

You can depend on the CDJ-3000X more than any CDJ before—it's built to deliver exceptional reliability, even in the most demanding professional environments. The play and cue buttons have been rebuilt to handle the most energetic use and can withstand over 500,000 presses each—far more than the previous model could take. Whether you want to scratch dynamically, or delicately bend the pitch, you can find your sweet spot and control the music more precisely with the expanded range of jog wheel tension adjustment. And there's no need to worry if you accidentally disconnect your USB drive or if the internet connection is briefly interrupted because, when you load a track, the whole file is cached to the player's memory, so it will play right to the end, no matter what happens.

Refined Sound Performance for Powerful Electronic Music Experiences

Immerse your crowd in detailed, dynamic audio, which faithfully reproduces every nuance of the original track and enhances the energy of dance music. Building on the high-quality sound design and advanced digital audio processing developed for the CDJ-3000, the CDJ-3000X takes sound quality to the next level. With a new, high-performance digital-to-analog converter made by ESS Technology, the CDJ-3000X achieves a better S/N ratio than the previous model, resulting in clearer and more refined sound reproduction. A newly designed power supply unit reduces unwanted noise and enhances low-frequency power, delivering punchy bass and a warm tone that won’t tire the ears, even during long sets. The sound tuning of the CDJ-3000X was refined through on-site testing in various club environments and developed with input from professional sound engineers, ensuring exceptional audio performance in any setting, from intimate venues to large-scale outdoor festivals.

Gate and Smart Cue: optimized for live innovation

Among the numerous performance-focused advancements made with the CDJ-3000X, AlphaTheta’s transformation of the player’s Cue capabilities opens explosive new vectors of live mixing potential. Your Hot Cue workflow has been overhauled to accommodate real-time track processing and analysis, while the Touch Cue feature lets you not only preview a track from any point on the waveform with just a touch, but you can also set Hot Cues at the same time. What’s more, Smart Cue makes this process even smoother, giving you a way to overwrite cue points instantly. For the DJs craving high-energy interactivity, Gate Cue is the answer. When enabled, Gate Cue transforms your Hot Cues into something more like a sampler or groovebox, playing audio only while the Cue button is pressed, supporting a deluge of beat juggling, mixing, and further imaginative performance possibilities.

NFC touchpoint and seamless support — USB stick, optional

With the advancements made to rekordbox’s mobile iOS/Android app, CloudDirectPlay, and the broader ecosystem of live-performance technologies, AlphaTheta endowed the CDJ-3000X with an NFC reader, conveniently mounted on the front of the unit. Now, using only your smartphone and the latest version of the rekordbox app, you can instantly access the entirety of your cloud-based library, including all of the tagging and cue points you’ve processed and added to your sets. Similarly, this same single sign-on support works with a QR code. Built-in Wi-Fi mitigates cable clutter, while a trio of USB-C connections guarantees lightning-fast communication and information transfer across laptops, smart devices, and external storage. Plus, the CDJ-3000X automatically caches each track you load, straight onto the unit, meaning any accidental disconnections to USB drives or external devices, as well as disruptions to your internet connection, won’t hinder playback.

Expanded horizons, engineered for endurance

The next-gen AlphaTheta CDJ-3000X trades its predecessor’s 9-inch resistive touchscreen for a vibrant, 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, expanding your view to display 16 tracks at once, while interactivity across real-time playlist editing, tagging, cue-marking, Key Sync performance features, and beyond. On the hardware side, the robust aluminum chassis was constructed to guarantee durability in any club or festival environment. Moreover, AlphaTheta’s engineers utilized their state-of-the-art testing facilities to drastically reinforce the Play and Cue buttons, each of which was built to withstand 500,000 presses. And since each purchase of an AlphaTheta CDJ-3000X automatically unlocks rekordbox Performance Mode, you’re ready to roll right out of the box.

Tougher components

The high-quality aluminum top plate and redesigned play, cue, and Hot Cue buttons are stronger than ever. Also, the lockable V-Lock power cable guards against accidental disconnections that could interrupt your show.

Global Tag List: anywhere-editing, one convenient location

The on-device editing and extended view of the larger high-resolution touchscreen are a major boon to on-the-fly adjustments that won’t sacrifice your flow, but performance enhancements don’t stop there. The capacitive touchscreen lets you copy track information and paste it directly into the search bar, and thanks to the use of Cloud Library Sync, all edits, playlists, tags, and Cue information is shared across devices, automatically. Similarly, the Global Tag List supercharges your media management, putting all information into a singular playlist, regardless of origin — cloud storage, multiple USB drives, and integrated streaming platforms are all eligible. Plus, the CDJ-3000X immensely reduces the processing time required to call up your rekordbox CloudDirectPlay information, alongside online music-store browsing, guaranteeing ultra-smooth operation that feels as painless as working straight from a USB drive.

Built for high-fidelity ferocity and next-level mixing

Thanks to the slew of wired and wireless audio-retrieval options, AlphaTheta tapped the industry-leading expertise of ESS Technology to guarantee every crowd is steeped in depth, detail, and multidimensional dynamism. The new-to-3000X DAC (digital-to-analog converter) promises uncompromising fidelity and prismatic depth, spanning a heaping 4Hz–40kHz frequency response, with a 115dB S/N ratio (signal-to-noise) and near-zero 0.0018% THD (total harmonic distortion). Expanded cloud and streaming support includes Dropbox, Google Drive, Tidal, and Beatport, making the new playlist-banking capabilities even more powerful, collecting your tracks into easy-to-find collections, regardless of source. Furthermore, the CDJ-3000X includes a refined jog wheel that lets you get tailor its responsiveness and vinyl-speed behavior to suit your needs — a feature that gets even more mileage when you consider that the 3000X now offers doubling and halving modes for the grid. Perfect beat-matching precision has never been this effortlessly achieved.

Pro DJ Link, Key Sync, and more return

Every advancement made to the CDJ-3000X was methodically considered by AlphaTheta’s visionary designers, ensuring that both new and returning features are supercharged for limitless sonic potential. With the Pro DJ Link port, multiple CDJs, mixers, and compatible hardware can share tags, cues, and further data, processed in real time, meaning that use with a DJS-1000, for example, preserves this information as you bounce across tracks, channels, cues, and effects. Thanks to the creative potential of the new Gate Cue tools, as well as the finesse supported by the larger capacitive touchscreen, the sonic manipulation of the kaleidoscopic Key Sync and Key Shift tools unlocks complex, imaginative, hands-on creativity, from subtle shifts to polychromic pitch-warping wizardry.