The deck sections roughly mirror most of the controls that you might find on a good CD turntable, and the mixer is a simple two-channel affair that lets you blend tracks between them.

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For your money, you get two platters and a mini-mixer, FX buttons, a choice of five colors (white, black, red, green or the pictured violet), as well as some built-in LED effects that help you learn to mix (the lights get brighter as the pitch of the two songs gets closer, etc.).

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As with other members of the Mixtrack family, the layout is fairly traditional, with two platters plus transport controls flanking a central mixer section.

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That mixer is also somewhat larger this time around, thanks to the extra two channels it sports for the four decks.

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The XDJ-Aero is a 25 x 11.4 x 2.5-inch slab of plastic and aluminum that houses two "deck" sections, one on either side of the central mixer.

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