VTechKidi Star DJ Mixer

My child was instantly captivated by the VTech DJ Mixer—it’s amazing how much creative play this little device sparks! Between the colorful buttons, turntables, and interactive lights, it delivers a truly immersive experience. The pads trigger cool sound effects and loops, and there's surprisingly clever music mixing capability for its size and price.What we love most:🎶 Intuitive controls: The sliders and knobs feel great, and my kid picked them up within minutes—no adult mediation needed!Cool features: Built‑in tracks, voice effects, DJ loops, and even sample-phrases make every session feel like a real gig.Educational value: It promotes rhythm, pattern recognition, creativity, and confidence—all through play.Kid-proof design: Solid build, responsive buttons, and it handles drops and bumps like a champ.Overall, this VTech DJ Mixer brings hands-on musical exploration and imaginative performance into a fun, educational toy. If you're looking for a playful, beginner-friendly way for your child to experiment with DJ-style music mixing, this is a stellar choice!

If you're considering buying this and the price isn't an issue for you, just buy it.Bought because my 3 year old daughter loves music and dancing, and she's really into "Loop Daddy" Marc Rebillet who live loops his own improvised music...I knew she's prob too young to really understand how to use it. It's immediately become a source of entertainment for the whole family, well worth the price. Once she saw me playing with it, she was interested. She loves recording her own voice and was able to learn how to do that pretty quick, which has been a lot of silly fun.This thing is loaded with some legit bops in a variety of styles. It's fun even for me and my wife to put together a song we enjoy and my daughter loves dancing to it.3 things I don't like (that shouldn't stop anyone from buying this!):1. The actual turntable function thing is pretty unsatisfying. Between the lackluster sounds, the way it doesn't interact with the song, and just the inability to make the sound work well with any song is frustrating.2. The main buttons can't/don't work as a sound sound machine during the two main modes. The way they work in the academy mode is what I was expecting to be possible in the other modes but I don't see how to do that.3. The installed vocals are actually coolish, buuuut if you push the tempo of the music, the vocal speed gets weird, kinda rending that useless when changing tempos.These are all minor issues, not getting in the way of our overall and immediate enjoyment of this thing.I hope this will continue to encourage and facilitate my daughter's love of music.If you're still reading this, definitely just buy it. Even just one or two plays with it pays for itself IMO.

This thing is so cool. It has a ton of different functions, voice sampling, bluetooth, audio line in, adjustable motion lights. It has a bunch of different music genres and with pre-programmed songs that can be customized. It really is a lot of fun. Anyway, it is well constructed and it has been literally thrown around our house for two years and still is in great shape and everything still works perfectly. It is also a nice size, large enough to be used easily, even for adults, but not overly big.

Update: I had this is demo mode for a long time without realizing it until I read an answer to a question on here that said how to get it out of that mode. Now we can play a beat as long as we like without it turning off! It's been nearly two years since we first got this and it still gets regular play and we still love it! Read on for original review:This is the funnest toy we've had in a long time. I got this for my 6 year old's birthday and I must say, even though he and his 7 year old brother love it, I've spent some quality time on it myself while the kids were playing outside.The mixer has 15 different basic samples to choose from and then 15 different layering options per sample. There are also 5 additional "party" sounds per sample and an optional vocal track. You can adjust the tempo to a "slow jam" all the way up to a high energy break beat. There is a scratch wheel that also has 5 different scratch settings. The toy also lets you record your tracks to play back later. There's also an "academy" feature setting which is basically a Simon Says game designed to help you learn different beat layering techniques. I love this toy, but here are my pros and cons:Pros:-easy for age 6 and up to make tracks that sound good and give them confidence- hundreds of beat combination possibilities- genuinely decent sounding samples for kids- good variety of music styles from hip hop to dance-can record tracks for playback later-fun party light-bluetooth connectivity (haven't tried this feature)-scratch wheel has a heavy weight similar to a real one-headphone jack-batteries or plug inCons:-Turns itself off really fast if you're not pressing buttons (6 measures only), so you can't just sit on a beat and listen to it for very long-No manual mode where you can press the buttons and make one sound to create your own beat.-The academy mode is kind of hard for younger kidsOverall, this DJ set far exceeded my expectations for a kid's toy and we're really happy with it.