gullum

Cross any day of the week. I have deckadance but there is no proper mapping for any of the controllers I owned at the time I got it and still no big controllers are supported. So I just gave totally up on it.
Cross I’ve only had about 1.5 year and it’s updated frequently with new futures and it’s not as future pack in unneeded bells and whistles as Deckadance but most of the extras you get in Deckadance are things you probable never ever will use in any of your sets. Cross has everything you need for a perfect DJ set + some and they constantly improve and add stuff that make you DJ sets better not just so crazy stuff that look good in a 5 min youtube routine.

agree on the players not being an upgrade but the mixer sure would be and by adding and DDJ SP1 I would have the same options as on the DDJ SX.
The DDJ SZ just made it to thomann.de and it’s actually €620 less then a 850 setup and would cost me around €2300 when I have it. hefty price but better then the ca €3600 that the 850 would cost me with the SP1. So quite a lot just to be able to play CD and use Rekordbox 😀

Guess it’s going to be the DDJ SZ then

First saw the DDJ SZ fell in love with it and was madly in love with it for a week or 2. Now my feelings have settled a bit I still like to get it. But thinking about it my DDJ SX in it’s flight is having problems fitting some booths I play in. A CDJ+DJM 850 is just a little more then DDJ SZ they are HID with Cross have Send/return and the color FX + building FX about the same size oooo  and I can get them in white, I just love white. Would need some way to trigger my Locators (Hotcues) though.

this is as Vintage is saying mostly amid for the CDj DJ’s that want to go digital

because you are starting out there is no need to get CDJ 850 with the XDJ-R1 (it also has 2 cd players) your also going to be using iPad and iPhone so there is no need for the CDJ850, Remotebox on your iPad and you are set to go and can do amazing things. You also need some basic computer for Rekordbox preparations and synching music to iPad or USB stick.

If you are serious about making Music the iPad can get you some way but a computer can do so much more.

The RMX-1000 has a switch on the back for send/return or master, I haven’t tried it my self but to my understanding when set to master it is less aggressive on the signal. There is no problem using it from the master out from the XDJ-R1 just remember that if you are playing 2 songs it will apply fx to bout of them.

only other things for DJ’ing you would need to go with a XDJ-R1 + iPad are monitors(speakers) and headphones.

for you q about keyboard it really depends what software you are going to use it with.

that mac will work fine with VDJ I’ve had a white Macbook 2009 <span style=”background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: arial, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;”>dual core intel 2,4ghz</span><span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> 4 GB ram no problem with VDJ. I’ve also used it with SeratoDJ. Traktor Pro, Mixvibes Cross. I now have a i7 2 ghz  8GB ram MBP SSD+HDD only real </span>difference is preparation of songs. Analyzing songs is faster. Platinum Note can do 8 songs at a time vs. 2 on old mac. But for regular DJ’ing there is not much difference in speed.

Traktor can be as easy or complicated as you choose it to be, but takes a little to get used to and setup to your preference. The S2 is a tested and well liked controller and is 100% plug n play with Traktor. Also with Traktor if you want to get a new controller later on almost any controller will work.

Serato has really good integration with it’s supported controllers but the futures you can use depend on the controller you have.  I your controller does not have a future you can’t mapp it to your controller, you need an extra controller. the SP-6 Sampler is a nightmare to use and is not integrate fully to any of the supported controllers so a lot of mouse clicking needs to be done.

The Pioneer DDJ SB is what it is an entry controller and even though it looks like it has 8 pads on each side the button row is only for transport controls. so there are only 4 pads (Hotcue/samples) per deck.

I recommend taking a look Mixvibes Cross get a controller that is supported then buy the software. Cross  is close to getting upgrade to version 3 and bass a lot of nice changes. Colored waveforms ( 3 different styles) build in Video EQ pre set from The Pioneer DJM 2000 Mixer.<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> Cross is also the only software that has full HID for all of the Pioneer CDJ has a really good browser (Smarlists) only week point of Cross for the moment are it’s FX. </span>

I’m guessing it’s only for register payed users as it asks for the serial when installing

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