Serato vs. Traktor Pro.

[DJ no name]

haha i kinda got that feeling...i just want to know WHY serato has more people using it. like it just doesnt make sense

[Gr0wTesK]

Serato has a bigger base because Final Scratch was buggy and then Scratch Live dropped and gained a fan base for its stability. Those DJs had friends that got Serato because they had it, and so on and so forth

[DJ no name]

thanks for that answer!

[sobi]

my $.02 is that Traktor is now and (IMO) has been leaps and bounds better than Serato in terms of feature richness. TSP2 seems to have made that gap even further. They have always been on the forefront.

That being said, I think there is more people using Serato due to their customer support being a bit better. The product offers a much more straight forward and clean interface on top of just working. I'd say Traktor is to PC as Serato is to Mac. Traktor works relatively problem free, but requires tweaking to do so... even when your system is above the suggested specs. Serato just works right out of the box with no tweaking. Also, I think the glitchiness of Traktor when it first came out turned people off. The only other thing is the tiered levels of releases of Traktor, vs the one and done nature of Serato. There is no paying to upgrade their software. It's all free. This is a two way street though, as Traktor offers much more affordable choices at the entry level.
If NI could deliver the rock solid dependability and old school "it just works" vibe of Macs that Serato offers, it would probably be the end of them more or less.

[Nunz]

^ Eh, I don't know about the Traktor to PC comparison and the Serato to Mac comparison, the platforms don't really push one to make a decision to use either software.

[DJ no name]

i feel the same way as nunz......i just feel like serato is so behind traktor, but thats just an opinion since i have never used serato.

whatever rocks the crowd though, right?

[mostapha]

Serato has a bigger base because Final Scratch was buggy and then Scratch Live dropped and gained a fan base for its stability. Those DJs had friends that got Serato because they had it, and so on and so forth

That's it.

I actually moved Vinyl -> SSL -> FS2 -> CDJs -> SSL -> Ableton -> Traktor Pro.

I'm considering a move to TSP at some point in the near future but it feels really weird. In addition to FS2 being only slightly better than mediocre and SSL being IMO flat-out better software at the time, the Stanton and NI partnership fell apart and destroyed their user base. When one company pisses you off and its direct competitor make a better product anyway, it's an easy choice. In addition, I still believe wholeheartedly that SSL is for vinyl control; Traktor is for controllers; and both are completely pointless with CDs.

It's just one of those things I don't think anyone is going to convince isn't the way it is.

jeez sorry. i just wanted to know specifically why serato is more preferred than traktor, and did not really want to spend hours looking around forums for that answer.

isnt that what DJTT is all about? being helpful?

No. It does that, and it does it very well some times, but it's primarily about leveraging our collective synergy to elevate our mixing to the next level while providing an open forum for individual expressions of our admiration for specific software packages and hardware devices that empower our abilities to utterly destroy perfectly good music with unnecessary bullshit techniques because we're told that building a good set is neither necessary nor sufficient for becoming a modern DJ. Oh, and we also make fun of vinyl jocks for no reason and stroke each other's fragile egos whenever some tom dick or harry says something negative about digital DJing or auto-sync despite the fact that 99% of the EDM scene doesn't care and I–for example–haven't seen a single person in real life who even has a clue that this so-called online community exists.

And occasionally someone posts funny pictures.

[sobi]

^ Eh, I don't know about the Traktor to PC comparison and the Serato to Mac comparison, the platforms don't really push one to make a decision to use either software.

Didn't really say they did. I'm (poorly?) trying to convey the point that PC is known for not really having a "it just works" reputation that Mac has. Traktor is the same way. Even when your system meets and/or exceeds the specs, you need to do a bunch of tweaks to your system to get Traktor running smoothly. Serato "just works". Having said that, I'll take Traktor hands down.

[Patch]

I getcha - you mean Serato is to Traktor what Mac is to PC.

Makes sense...

[tyfurious]

Serato >> Traktor >> Ableton
Simple >> Advanced >> Completely Customizable Advanced
Vinyl >> CDJ >> Drum Machine
Mac >> Windows >> Linux
Wordpress >> Dreamweaver >> Handwriting Code
Play Music (with many many exceptions) >> Remix Music >> Create Music
EFX1000 >> KP3 >> PedalBoard

That sums it up for me, their all valid, but it's just up to how complex you feel like getting. This is just IMO though.