New member saying hello & 1st post...some advice please.

[Mintaka]

Or you can be a G6 and use both. Read that one girls post about using the machine to trigger events in Artillery, a Ableton VST, as a master to Traktor.

totally lost me

[Mintaka]

Not a fan of the 4d personally.
It's great if you got decks or cdj's as well but not the best choice for midi use cos there aren't that many buttons to map if you're using 4 decks.

Thought you wanted ableton anyways

You need to decide whether you want a more 'traditional' dj set up or something a bit different.

Traditional = Traktor
Different = Ableton

Or a mixture of both as Omniross says.
But you'll need a pretty powerful laptop to do it that way I reckon.

You could always get a midifighter for firing samples in 2 of the decks in Traktor and another controller for mixing on the other 2 decks...

I think the S4 and traktor will be the first purchase, I will then see how I can use my huge sample library more effectively (hence the ableton fascination). I really like the idea of using traktor s4 as my main mixing element and deck control but with the flexibility of having a whole host of samples in ableton (rather than just the 8 on the s4) and be able to trigger them in synch with the audio playing in traktor.

Would it be possible to have both traktor s4 and an apc40 running in synch? Or maybe the NI Maschine controller running ableton samples?