Marco Solo

What you could do is let it change the first effect based on wether the effect is single or group. So you’d have a condition that said if fx unit 1 is single, change fx1 to delay for instance.

First of all, I have to say I’m extremely jealous of your setup 😛

But anyway… You don’t need to add let’s say a reverb to every track, just add it on top and alter the send/return per track. This uses a lot less cpu and keeps the latency down.

I have a folder structure like this (by the way, I’ve used this since the time when EDM still meant electronic dance music):
-EDM
>Breaks
>Electronica
>Chemical Brothers
>Hardcore
>House
>Soft
>Hard
-Rock
>Led Zeppelin
>Muse
>Porcupine Tree

I’ve used this since the days of my iRiver H120 mp3 player. So I have folders of genres with folders in them of subgenres and when I have a lot of tracks from one artist I put that in another folder. This means there are a lot of folders, but I’m able to find anything I want without using the amazingly slow search function in windows. If I have 400 tracks or more in one folder, it’s time to create another subfolder in my book. I don’t tend to create artist folders for electronic dance music as it tends to create duplicates. I’d rather create subgenres instead.

But don’t spend too much time thinking about these things. Just try something. If it doesn’t work, ditch it. It’s that simple. I didn’t think of my system in a day, it simply grew over multiple years.

Why not go modular then? The new akai mixer and effect controllers seem pretty good.

Sorry, mixed up two topics. Forget the thing about DJay, is there any hardware you do like?

Well, if you like the clean look, Serato will be more up your street I think. It does most of the things for you and has a minimalistic look. Mapping is pretty self explanatory and the audio routing is done automatically. With Traktor you can pretty much set up everything you want, just the way you want. Some people like this (like me!), but some think it’s a bit overwhelming.

The VCI-400 would be a contender IMO. Pretty small footprint, good pads, better VU meter than the SR and built like a tank. Or the Numark NV if you’re into gimmicky stuff. Or if you’re more into mobile DJ stuff, the Denon MC6000 Mk2.
All of these will work with Serato DJ.

No Terry it’s not limited to the S4, you can’t even use it with DVS…
For Traktor you’ll either need a certified mixer (Z2, some Pioneer ones, etc) or a certified soundcard (audio 6, audio 10) to use DVS. Are you really using Scratch Duo? That’s pretty old software.
With Serato you have indeed more options. Cross DJ can also do DVS and you can use pretty much any DVS hardware with it.