Marco Solo

I’ll offer another viewpoint now that BoomDraw has favored Serato, which is his right of course.
I like Traktor over VDJ and Serato simply because it allows for the most things that I look for. Almost every setting of the software and the mapping can be altered. You can even change what information is shown on the bar above your track. And if you have a controller that wasn’t designed for Traktor, you can completely map it the way you want. If you can’t map yourself, there are plenty of people who have done it already for you. There is a way to use Traktor with Ableton and Maschine, and it’s pretty easy to set up as well using the midi clock. Many top notch dj’s use Traktor with Ableton or Maschine (Dubfire and Bass Kleph for instance). The only things Traktor doesn’t have that Serato does is a slicer, less responsive jogs (a must if you want to scratch using DVS for instance) and a flexible beatgrid.

Virtual DJ has very good mapping capabilities as well, but the quantization and user interface are lacking. It looks too chaotic to me. I also don’t have a lot of experience with it, but the package is very, very capable. Don’t let anybody tell you that it is for noobs only. It’s not.

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• This reply was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by Terry_42.

If you go to your controller mappings, you’ll also find a mapping for the keyboard. Find the up and down keys and delete the search step function assigned to them.

Here’s a video where you can see what I’m talking about. Ellaskins has a waveform, but nevertheless counts the bars so the mixing point is lined up perfectly.

No it doesn’t. A singer that writes his/her own songs, plays his/her own songs and has a really good voice beats the crap out of any popstar that has to sing with autocue and playbacks in a live performance to songs that somebody else wrote any day of the year in any genre.

Music is a matter of taste, but only if there is any. I am perfectly fine with people being fans of Bruce Springsteen. He’s a good singer, writes awesome lyrics and is a real performer. But I don’t like most of his songs. This is a difference in taste. Not liking Justin Bieber for instance has a totally different reason.

If there’s one thing I learned when it comes to music it is that people don’t like good music. They only like crap. They are unable to appreciate good productions of proper artist. Just look at what’s currently in the charts.

I have given up on changing the world around me a loooong time ago.

The Gemini and the Hercules both seem a bit small to me, with buttons very close to each other. The Hercules also seems too expensive for what you get in functionality to me. At that price point I’d rather go for a mixtrack pro 2 or a reloop mixage mk2.