Originally Posted by
octostout
The ignorance coming from inexperienced DJs in this thread is horrendous.
You people are actually calling CDJ2000's inferior to an S4, because they don't have cheap little pots to control your Traktor effects? Have you ever touched one? The CDJ2000 is literally the highest-quality piece of DJ equipment ever mass produced, and the S4 famously has among the worst build quality, even for an all-in-one controller. The CD2000 isn't MEANT to control traktor effects, it's meant to be a deck controller.
You're all addressing it like we're saying you should show up with CDs/thumbdrives and play on just the 2000's... No, you wankers, we're saying you should plug them into traktor as HID controllers, and bring supplemental controllers to do the things that the 2000's aren't designed to do. If you want knobs for FX control, bring a small controller with knobs, if you want cue points, bring a midi fighter, if you want a third and fourth track deck, bring Reloop Contours/ CMD PL-1's. This way you don't have reinvent the wheel, and bring in a cheap duplicate of the gear already there, just so you can use the secondary features built into it. You can easily replicate anything the S4 can do with a standard setup, and a couple of better-fitting, cheaper, higher-quality, and less intrusive controllers like Midi Fighters, Xone K2's, Behringer CMD controllers, Reloop contours, all of the korg micro controllers, etc. etc. etc.
Stop assuming that we're old traditional DJs just mixing tracks, and you're the next wave of DJ prodigies doing amazing tricks only possible with controllers... We're doing the same thing, we're just being smarter about it. We're doing exactly the same things (cue point juggling, FX combinations, sync tricks, etc.) also with controllers, we're just incorporating the gear that's already set up for our standard deck controls and mixer, because it makes more logistical sense.
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