Best controller for scratching

[Onimode]

http://www.stantondj.com/stanton-con...s/system1.html

The platter on the scs.1d is also motorized (and has a motorized 100mm pitch fader!). Last review I read about it spoke of a rather high resolution for the platter.

[sardu]

without a doubt: numark NS7 & V7's.

[SPA]

I've been very impressed with some of the scratching done of the Vestax VCI300 and 400 controllers.
This video is a great example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnBvXFDWpWo

[bct15]

A turntable and serato should emulate scratching better than any controller since you actually are scratching...at least that is what I use

[buddha131]

Numark V7 looks about like what you want

And a midi/midi-capable mixer. As far as this goes youre screwed. Cheapest options are the behringer ddm 4000 or the numark x5, both of which are pricey, but your best options. If you're tight on money, you could get a torq xponent, it will do the job.

Theres a way to link your traktor channels to abelton live, basically a bootleg "bridge", so this may be something you wanna look into.

I am going to do similar things, and all I need to do is scratch some samples, and put them in order in a DAW. So unless you want to do it all in one take, you don't need to over think this.

[synthet1c]

at the end of the day scratching is all about technique, if you can do the techniques you can scratch with anything, you don't need direct drive platters, itch even has a ramp up delay when you let go of the jog for a more authentic sound.

[djproben]

I played around on a Vestax Spin at CES and was frankly surprised at how nicely it scratched. It's no turntable of course but I found it really easy to scratch on it right away (the software was djay), which I can't say for my VCI-100. If the 400 is similar in terms of the jogwheel movement, I'd say that's the place to look if you can afford it.

[psillypsymun]

Denon Dn-S3700s are cool. My room mate had a pair. The Numark controllers suck IMO. They feel cheap. But Numark does make a CDJ that has a full sized platter called the CDX and HDX. People say it is the most "1200 feeling" motorized platter CDJ on the market. They are cheap on Ebay but they are full sized so you are back to the table space issue again. I saw one person mention the Vestax VCI 100 and 300 controllers. There are videos that show people doing some cool stuff with em, but I've used them and they are rife with sticker drift. You can fake it pretty well, but at the end of the day, technology has moved so much farther with the newer controllers on the market.

I would suggest looking into the Stanton SCS.1m and SCS.1d. You only NEED one deck. You can switch between decks with the touch of a button. You can control up to 4 decks. The amount of options for mapping and control are staggering. They have native support in Traktor as well as several other apps. There were sticker drift problems on the initial release so it got a bad wrap at first, but it has since been "fixed" when it was re-released last year with a new firmware update. It now has something like 4000 "ticks" per revolution so the tracking resolution "should" be about perfect. And running via Firewire means communication is streamlined. Also, there are loads of tools to customize the controls and diagnose any latency problems.

Another suggestion would be to look into the Denon Dn-hs5500. You can run external hard drives or usb flash drives or buy an internal hard drive or CD drive to install. But the best part is, like the SCS system, you can run two decks at a time. It has a large display that splits so you can run two separate tracks at once and switch back and forth. It has 2 separate pairs of RCA outs for channel one and two. It also has a midi mode which I'm not sure I would trust a whole lot. But if you are using a hard drive, cd or usb key, there is next to no sticker drift. They are discontinued, but they show up on Ebay quite a bit.

[deevey]

The Numark controllers suck IMO

I'm guessing you mean the mix track and NOT the NS7/V7/V6/4Trak .... which are in a different league than almost every other dj controller on the market.

[DJQA]

Yeah, the answer to the OP is probably Numark all the way if you want to use controllers. NS7 or V7 first of all, and then the NS6/4Trak as the second best options.