Midi Controller Owners, Please Help!

[Gryz]

Love my Hercules Steel/Audio 2 combo. I mapped the hell out of it. No touch sensitive jogs, but unless you get the VCI, I don't see much point in having them. They serve a great purpose for that controller, others, not so much.

[tyfurious]

Get an X1, A2DJ, and a BCR2000, from B&H audio that's $433 and customizable if your willing to do the mapping. If it was me I would get a launchpad from Novation and save $80 making it about $350, but that's mostly because I'm not a fan of the X1's tiny buttons.

[smoez]

Hey Guys Thanks for more great posts, you're all helping me alot!
I actually just did a comparison chart really quick to help me out:
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Thoughts?
I'm thinking of going with the bstock vci 100 mkii or american audio vsm possiably!

[hendo1992]

I use a reloop digital jockey 2 master edition cost me about £350. Solid bit of kit alot sturdier than the interface or controller edition although slightly more expensive. It comes with tracktor le and the stock mappings have been fine for me also comes with mappings for traktor pro which i now use and if you wanted to map it yourself there are quite alot of options as the shift function enables atleast 2 functions for each button. Heard good things about the vci 100 which im sure many on this forum will be fans of although it doesnt have touch sensitive jogs like the reloop dj2. Reloop dj2 ME also comes with built in sound card which is decent aswell havent really tested it to capacity yet but so far so good.

[smoez]

Bump! does anyone else have any ideas? :O!

[DjNecro]

You seem to be a very logical and smart shopper. Your spreadsheet seems to have told you what you want to know...

Though from what I've heard about the vci mk2 (low quality buttons), you may be better off with a mk1 and a usb/firewire sound card...

[vcarrasco15]

Hi man i just bought a few weeks ago a Gemini ctrl six, it works very nice for me, u know it comes with virtual dj and it has so many buttons/functions than for example mixtrack pro or the Imix, i think maybe the reloop its a good choice too, the pros of numark mixtrack pro is the quality i think, gemini ctrl six dont look too much plastic but faders and knobs are not really the best, i think its a good buy for that price, hope this info helps u, and sorry 4 my bad english am from Mexico, if u want more info just ask

[Quendo]

At the end i'll just suggest you just try both of them and than decide. Because they are both great controllers the only things that may decide wich you need to choose are personal prefrences.

As i mentioned before i chose for the Vestax. They reason here for me was that i really liked the all metal build of the controller and that i liked that i could edit/customize it with help of the DTT forum