I've Rediscovered Why I Love Dj'ing

[GrimFandango]

How are you using SSL without a laptop?

as in its out of his view. So that he doesn't look at the waveforms lol

[dual citizen]

I'll offer a contrarian view here. I've started using sample decks, cue point juggling (well not really juggling, more like cue point live edits) and pre-planned custom edits, and wondering why i didn't do so much much earlier.

Yes I am loving midi more than ever. Custom acapella edits over instrumentals using 3-4 decks. I think just upping the complexity can keep midi fun and interesting.

[M.Beijer]

I got cdjs.. 850's and a djm 800 and its sweet to mix on (feels nice for myself, playing chilled out house and stuff).
but damn it's also hell of fun to go ahead and rock on the traktor s4 or vci 100..
Too sad I don't have place for everything in my small apartment (and budget).
Also when doing homepartys or bar gigs midicontroller kicks ass, easier to have all the tracks people want and better oppurtunity to make some fun mix of new uknown tracks.

[DJZILCH]

Hi all, i've had a bit of an epiphany here.

I took Traktor pro 2 down to essential mode, made gridding invisible, still left bpm on along with the phase meter, I then set waveforms to the ultraviolet.

Threw on my favorite house tracks, and started mixing, manual beatmatching, complex transitions and looping. Dear god, it was phenomenal..... I was having the time of my life.

I think i'm done with midi once and for all.

i have a similar setting on my traktor + S2

disable moving waveforms (only overviews) , disable phase meter, remove actual bpm (only showing original bpm of track instead of current bpm) and then set the pitch sliders to 6% for finer accuracy

and yes i have a lot more fun with the S2 with this setting