NI S4 Already obsolete?

[BennyJ]

S4 is still the best traktor controller out there. The ONLY reason u want the pioneer is cuz it says pioneer on it. If u put them side by side the s4 beats it in mamy ways. dont see why u would want to waste ur money on such an outdated product already.

[djproben]

Why would any of these units be considered obsolete? We are using these units to mix music here, not splitting atoms and curing cancer.

Yeah, if you want to do those sort of things you need an iPad.

[djproben]

Pioneer advantages: sound card, scribble strip, size of jogs, size of pitch faders

S4 advantages: SOFTWARE, level meters on all channels, price

[steveboyett]

The new controllers' relevance is going to depend on whether NI deprecates Traktor Pro. A lot of these controllers may work well for Traktor Pro, but the S4 is clearly the better controller ... for the S4 software. I get the feeling NI is going to phase out TPro, which would give them an upgraded software and the best hardware controller for it.

[fullenglishpint]

I get the feeling NI is going to phase out TPro

Do you mean the current version? Cos they already pretty much did that by selling off stock at half price and announcing a new version...

[steveboyett]

Well, NI discounting anything is usually an informal announcement that they're discontinuing it. And it would be dumb of them not to sell the S4 software by itself. And god knows NI has never done anything dumb.

[fullenglishpint]

What i'm saying is that we already know for a fact that it's happening lol, haven't you seen this?

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[jfd6812]

The Pioneers both look very sweet, and, I would guess are probably of a better build quality than the S4. But the Kontrol S4 is the only one tailored to the S4 software, has more features and a better price point. I don't remember how much the denon is, but that controller looks sweet too-but, its still not tailored to the S4 software. I think they all look great, but the S4 is the clear leader in the clubhouse to me.

[tgunn897]

Phasing out old Traktor pro = yes, only to bring in a new updated version. S4 has no timecode support as of yet and dvs systems are far from being phased out, i never see that happening actually. Controllers are gaining in popularity by the thousands, and controllers are awesome and do alot of things. But DVS is not goin anywhere anytime soon. NI would be idiots to stop DVS support, They would basically be handing Serato hundreds of thousands dollars by doing so

[tgunn897]

yeah, if you want to do those sort of things you need an ipad.

lol