WIll a Kontrol X1, F1, and Audio 2 serve the needs of a controller?

[MRG12EG]

Contour looks good for the money from reading i think you need D/C power for the audio card??

another alternative is a Allen and Heath - K2 which has a built in audio interface.

[ltorrespr]

Contour looks good for the money from reading i think you need D/C power for the audio card??

another alternative is a Allen and Heath - K2 which has a built in audio interface.

Yes, you do need ext power for Contour.

[mdcdesign]

Yes, you do not ext power for Contour.

Nope, it runs fine bus powered. The specs say that it requires an adapter but in reality it works perfectly without

No crossfader capability on the unit; you use the club's built-in mixer for that and the rest of your EQing needs; just take the 4 outputs directly from the back of the unit into 4 channels on the club mixer then mix as you would normally. By default, the Contour mapping is set to control deck volume with the jog wheel when none of the 4 "jog modes" are selected, but I removed that straight away as I mix externally.

Personally I have mine mapped so that it's a normal jogwheel (touch-sensitive scratch + pitchbend on the outside) when no specific mode is enabled, Flux in "Scratch" mode, then pitchbend-only in "Pitchbend" mode, with shift+pitchbend as a tempo fader, then track position (rapid seek) in "Search" mode, then a deck browser in "Trax" mode.

[MRG12EG]

another alternative more traditional look (with the addition on a pitch slider) is the Denon DN-SC2000 (no audio)

[ltorrespr]

Thanks for the inputs!

[beisi]

sc2000 has a nice pitch fader, great for beatmatching as well as being built like a tank

a negative is that its push encoders are all notched which you may not like using for some functions

[ltorrespr]

Thanks scooterADAM!

[Patch]

If I had to strip it down tomorrow to a bare bones set-up, and money was an issue, I'd go for:

DDM 4000 and Zomo MC-1000

Pretty bad-ass set-up for less than £500.

[ltorrespr]

Thanks Patch! Just checked those 2 out and seem like another pretty good option. Now I'll have to check all the price /value differences amongst the feedback I received.

[pushplay]

If I had to strip it down tomorrow to a bare bones set-up, and money was an issue, I'd go for:

DDM 4000 and Zomo MC-1000

Pretty bad-ass set-up for less than £500.

I like this too! dollar wise anyways. so what about soundcard. Any other suggestion for soundcard with portability and good asio drivers for audio production???