Hi there y'all! This is my first post (sorry for my bad english, I'm from Québec) and although I know some of the things I'm wondering about have been mentionned in many threads, I haven't found a specific answer to what I'm looking for really...if I'm off the bat as to where I posted this or anything, please mention it and I'll fix it. So here it goes: I have been a musician for quite a few years (mainly guitar player) and have been playing with an electro/funk/jazz band for a year now (www.xrayzebras.bandcamp.com if you're interested), which really has widened my range of musical activities.. . I am currently learning to work in a 100% Ableton Live environment producing hip-hop, dubstep, hard electro, and sheer soft and hardware synth madness. Here's where you all come in handy: I'm looking to start up in digital Djing, to remix my tracks live and everything, and also want to incorporate digital scratching( now don't start I know it's nothing compared to vinyl and bla bla bla but I really wish to get a midi controller for it, since our band's setup is already freakin massive and fullfledged tt-mixer-tt setup is out of the question) into both live performances and studio recordings. So my two real questions are as follow: which, of all controllers under 1000$ would be the best for ''scratching''? I've read a lot of reviews and everything, but nowhere have I seen a true ''scratch'' comparison of them all. So more precisely, which one has the best feeling for scratch, the greatest response between soft and hardware, etcc.... I don't need a built-in soundcard, but if the best one has an integrated sound card it's not a problem (still less stuff to haul around). Also, I don't necessarily need 4 deck control since it will be mainly used for minor scratching and mixing my beats 2 at a time...
And also, do you know if it is possible to use such a controller to actually RECORD scratching into ableton? If yes, how would you do it?
Thanks a lot for your help, I'm really helpless since this will be my first controller and I want to get it right the first time! And sorry if I ask some stupid stuff, I'm really new to all this; and since english is't my language, I don't understand 100% of the terms in a domain that I must know of about 10% so...
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