Chuck Van Eekelen

On the IT side of things, I have seen several customers experiencing problems with the drivers from nVidia since the latest big Win10 update. One customer I actually swapped out the video-card for an AMD one and problems solved. Try reading up, there is lots on this issue on Google. And since swapping out a video-card on a laptop is not an option, some of the suggestions might help you.

I used to have the iDJ Pro and used it with DJAY 2 without problems.

Interesting concept, but slightly flowed in my – very humble – opinion, depending on the goal you have for making mixtapes.

If you make them to let your friends and people listen to a live mix then clearly the way you do it is the only “right” way.

However, one of the most important reasons people make mixtapes is to present themselves to others, not in the least organizers, venue managers/owners and program managers. And those people are interested in your “sound” and really won’t listen to an hours worth of mix and check if your transitions were good. That is why, in the mixtapes course, you are not only taught how to fix bad transitions without having to re-record and entire hour worth of tracks, but also how to professionally shorten the track (intro-verse-chorus-mix out for example) so tracks follow each other much quicker, hopefully grabbing enough attention from the listener for them to continue listening a bit longer. Should you have bad mixes in those short sessions, it would most likely be noticed and not helpful for getting booked.

If you are confident you can do your mixes well in public (everyone trainwrecks once in a while), then there is no shame in fixing your mixtapes to have only perfect transitions.

Just my 3 cents as usual.

No clue, sorry. Did you try the search option on the main site?

Hi Paul, thanks for the (albeit short 😀 ) introduction!

Have a wonderful new year and lots of luck with your endeavors. Enjoy your time here on the forums.

Thanks for the introduction with a pic no less. More people should do that!

Welcome to the forums. Enjoy your time here and be sure to post something if you have an opinion or a question.

Denon has a long history of being sold with traktor. The Mc2000 being an “old” controller was also natively supported. It’s the more recent controllers that suffer of the lack of traktor(-made or -approved) mappings.

As for the “the best” issue, let me give you 1 or 2 examples of why you can not make this claim. Some of the controllers have gain knobs, which is very important is you don’t want to use auto-gain (good reasons for that by the way), but if you like auto-gain, having gain knobs has little added value. Same is true for dedicated filter knobs. Or for long or short pitch faders, or the number of performance pads and their modes, or the location of jog wheel and transport buttons. The more expensive (semi-)pro controllers will mostly have all the features but starter controllers will have one and not the other or vice versa.

So, what I consider the best based on the features that I value the most, might not be the best based on your valued features.

This is why we can’t/won’t give out a definite ranking (even if we don’t take the software into account), but prefer giving a shortlist of 4-5 controllers that are all very capable starter controllers and tips on how to define your desired features.