![]() ![]() Now, the lines around what counts as a ‘DJ controller’ are blurring a little. Whether you’re after something to replicate the feel of traditional turntables, mixers, and CDJs, or a modern pad device designed for sample triggering and effects manipulation, the best DJ controllers in this guide offer skin-tight integration with your preferred mixing software of choice, so you can properly get hands-on and expressive with your library or tracks. Some are designed for use with just desktop machines, while others can be used with your mobile device. There are controllers specifically designed to take advantage of the latest features of rekordbox, Serato, Traktor, or Virtual DJ, and others that will work with a multitude of applications. From so-called ‘battle’ devices – aimed at scratch DJs and turntablists – to complex rigs that emulate the functionality of top-end club setups. ![]() Rekordbox is practical if you want to become a resident at a club, and/or thus play on CDJs all your life (which isn't a bad thing, mind you :P).Even just within the realm of the best DJ controllers, there’s no shortage of variety. Traktor is nice if you have a very specific configuration you want to accomplish, or if you really dig the whole Stems / Remix-Deck thing. Serato is a very nice piece of software if you just want to throw tracks together and attack the mix like a normal DJ. IMO, Mixxx and VDJ are good for getting started. Or, pick up programming and do it yourself! Inevitably gets left in the dust by the other two programs, BUT, they have nailed down the basics pretty well so far so I would consider it a perfectly viable DJ'ing option with classic techniques. If you want a feature, you're going to have to tell someone out there that you want it, and wait a few months or years for them to get to it while doing their actual day job :). Mixxx is open source, and free, and while it works well, comes with all the shortcomings of being open source and free. You should check out the DJ Tech Tools forums and ask around there, they're pretty crazy (and responsive) about knowing how Traktor works. I'm not surprised, it took me awhile to understand how to get the thing rolling myself. You probably didn't install the mapping for the Mixtrack 3 correctly. Has "stems" format support and pads via remix decks, but this is beginning to get blurry as a differentiating feature since Ableton Link and the DJ-808 came out. Beatgrid support I think is unparalleled, you can zoom in RIGHT on the exact spot you want the grid to start, and have multiple tracks in perfect sync all the time (this works very well in tandem with all the crazy mappings). Has recently been moving towards a "plug and play" idealogy with their own line of hardware (S2, S4, S5, S8), but in my opinion, its strength has always been with customizations and the crazy effects chains that result. Can do extreme combinations of techniques (google controllerism and look up DJ Tech Tools videos) that can be well defined and customized by the user. You can make it your own, but will take a lot of time to set up right (and LEARN how to set up right) if you want to put the time into it. Also, I forget whether Mixxx has this now, but Traktor definitely does not: Stacked waveforms. Sampler is somewhat limited, unless you have a DJ-808. I think Serato encourages classic technique knowledge the most. Beatgridding is still not the best in the world. Includes some nice accomodations as a result, such as if your equipment goes unplugged in a set and you replug, all audio immediately resumes from where it stopped. Locked to hardware, but as a result, is very slick, and very much plug and play. Serato is as "keep it simple stupid" as I think it gets. I'm fully willing to accept that I'm wrong if I am wrong, and if I'm wrong then I'll go buy Serato, but I don't see the benefits at all.Ĭan anyone tell me why these $100 pieces of software are better than Mixxx? So am I ignorant here or is there any benefit to Traktor or Serato over Mixxx? Like I just don't get it. I contacted customer support and they told me to contact Numark, which is honestly kinda ridiculous since it was a Traktor problem, and so I stopped using it. ![]() Either way, they were in the menu, there just wasn't a button to apply the changes). I used Traktor briefly, and again, seems to have the same functionality but require a lot of extra things to be installed (specific audio drivers), and for some reason it didn't allow me to enable my Numark Mixtrack 3 even though it supposedly had mappings for it (or I may have installed them. Never used Serato but I've seen the interface, it looks to have the same functionality as Mixxx with a shittier looking interface for $100. Mixxx is free, I've been using it since I started, I haven't noticed anything it's lacking and, while this is unimportant, it looks nice too. So what's the deal with these 3 softwares? ![]()
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