Well if you were to code that thing entirely in Traktors midi mapping you would lose alot of functions. The big ones are would be that you couldnt get anywhere close to getting the LED feedback you do using DaRouter(aka Bomes) and there just is not enough midi modifers in Traktor to get as many "modifiers" as is used in the DaRouter software for the device. I have no qualms in saying that they are the best, most well thought out and well executed mappings any hardware company has released with their hardware - they are still far from perfect and could use a bit more of a controllerist touch but we have never seen anything like it and i doubt we will for a fair while (for Traktor anyway) M4L is proving to offer some super tight integration with hardware and some company is bound to put out something epically awesome with it at some stage or another to trump Stanton's feat.
Just a reminder - i did beta testing on the SCS3d and 3M as well as gave a lot of feedback on the mappings as well as got my hands dirty in modifying the device myself - so i know a lot about what Stanton went through to make this possible.
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