So, as to the OP's question…yes…it's just an IO thing. The SL3 might be worth considering mostly because 3 decks is kinda cool (depending on your genre) and you can use the 3rd one for something like Ableton or maybe Maschine or the MPC Renaissance (with their apps…they're stupid as DJ controllers)…which is sick.
As for the other BS in this thread….
I have a weird stance on the whole sync issue.
I have no problem with it, despite using turntables. I apparently do nothing a bit worse than everyone else. Auto-gridding fails for me 100% of the time. Maybe my ears are better. Maybe I'm pickier. Maybe Traktor and Ableton really do honestly hate me. I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
But…I went back to SSL with Technics after a year on Ableton and a bit more than that on Traktor Pro with X1s because beat matching is easier than setting beat grids or warp markers by hand. I knew something was wrong when I was about to pay someone to set beat grids for me…bringing the cost of my wav files within a buck or two of the cost of vinyl. All so it was marginally easier to do things that I can do manually anyway.
If auto-sync actually worked that way (as in…do nothing, then push a button and things magically sync up), I'd use it in a heartbeat and quit bitching.
But it doesn't, so I use a DVS in Absolute mode because it's easier. I am thinking about dicers for looping, though, because even though I know how to beat juggle…it's not worth the effort.
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