Over the last 3 years I've been putting together sets for dance workshops that I lead, using the edit options on itunes to get something close to a fluid mix. Considering the extremely limited options with itunes I do well with it and people love to dance to the sets. I've been following this site and reading the forum for about 6 months and I'm nearly ready to buy a controller to move into the live djing, but I have a few questions that I'd love some input on.
I'm considering either S4 w/Traktor or VCI-300mk 11 w/itch
Here are my specific djing needs/desires
1. My sets have a wide range of music - world music, drum and bass, breakbeat, hip hop, downtempo, blues, leftfield and more. The tempo changes a lot over 2 hours, sets start off slowly, and build into very fast psytrance, d&b etc, then drop down back into really slow stuff at end
Which controller/software combo does best with sets that have wide variance in tempo and mixing songs from world music etc that might have irregular rhythms and not be on an exact beat
2. Although I appreciate the potential that's offered by all the options with the S4, in the near future I would mostly be happy just to mix great music well. Don't see myself spending a ton of time learning about effects in the first months as I prefer to spend the limited time I have searching out great music to dance to, but also don't want to spend months getting used to itch if I'm going to outgrow it too fast.
3. I have all my sets organized in itunes. Is the new traktor pro as good as itch with itunes integration?
thanks for sharing your experience
Luke
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