I've never been a fan of Deckadance becasue it only provided support for very basic custom MIDI controller mappings, and no LED feedback. This is the main reason I am a devoted Traktor user. However, I have just checked the latest version and learnt that, since v2.2 was (released on 29 July 2013), Deckadance is equipped with proper bi-directional MIDI comms and full-blown MIDI scripting capabilities. I am not talking about crappy mouse-driven scripting like in Traktor, I am talking about scripts that can be edited by humans in any plain-text editor, organized logically into separate files, merged, split and shared with other users without being constrained to a monstrous, monolithic, encrypted TSI file that can only be clumsily edited in Traktor's mapping editor.
I have always had great mapping ideas but I am never in the mood to implement them in Traktor because it's just too hard to do anything mildly sophisticated. With Deckadance DeckaScripting it's very easy to achieve sophisticated mappings, especially controller banks or pages. An unlimited number of variables may be defined and named meaningfully (as opposed to Traktor's skimpy M1-M8 "modifiers"). Heck, it can even handle SysEx messages to initialize my Launchpad and my BCR2000!
Deckadance also supports third-party VST plugins
I am in the process of comparing Traktor and Deckadance, and so far I am seeing a lot of overlap, which is good because I might switch.
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