The worklow of traktor was messing with my chi so I only used it for about 6 months, so not as extensively but I gave it a shot. My issue is that I could no longer map anything off the top of my head anymore, and when I tried to recreate my old mappings traktor didn't have the verbage or the modifiers to do most of it.
Then moving on to effects I don't really like the sound of the resonant filter, the lfo filter sounded better though but no where near as good as the free vst "qb_filter", but as I have said previously I found that having to see the effects was limiting whereas in VDJ I can just map something and it will work. And there were no effects in traktor that couldn't be done in VDJ accept maybe the transpose.
I hated the browser in traktor, I am used to VDJ's way of creating an external xml browser that is quick to navigate, I can make custom filter folders that are like smart crates to locate music from different folders easily. One thing I didn't like is that the information from the browser had to be transferred individually if you wanted it in the id3tags, but a tool has been made by a community member "phantomdj" to do it to the whole library or parts of it in a couple of clicks.
I love the beatgridding in traktor, especially the metronome it makes everything match up perfectly, I had to make a few click tracks at different bpm's that I play on the adjacent deck when gridding, also the the grid markers are pretty terrible in VDJ, traktor owns in that respect if you sync. I didn't get a good look at the grid in any of the VDJ8 video's, but djdecks grid was great "very similar to traktor" so hopefully if it's not used on the default skin we can skin it to our own.
When the takeover of djdecks happened and I used that and started researching what you can do with it it was all over, Adion has made an incredible software and I was looking forward to all of his amazing features merging with VDJ, that was the time I had a serious look at skinning and really wanted a way to use javascript on the skin which djdecks coding was based on, so that means you should be able to create your own functions.
Colour waveforms never bothered me as I do all I can to avoid looking at them as I don't really listen properly when I can see the sound, and it usually takes a moment to refocus from sight to hearing, and I find the pretty colors moving on the screen sucks me in when using traktor. But I do prefer it's minimalist workflow "GUI" over VDJ's not very well thought out one, but I can just make my own to suit the information that I want, just waiting on 7.1 or 8 to start skinning again, as there is no beta so I don't know what will be included and will find out when everyone else does.
The main reason though is that I started on VDJ and got used to it, I has some issues for a couple of hours setting up my timecodes, but played with the settings, read a couple of posts and they were working perfectly. I never used anything internal until version 7 was released as I was using a djm600, kp2 and an efx1000 so was never turned away by the eq, but once I started playing with vst's and found "minimal systems instruments - ultimate 3 band" I stopped using the djm as the vst sounded better and started using a controller as the mixer so started really playing with scripting. I figured out how to map from only learning "query ? action if true : action if false" and just pushed it as far as it can go.
Oh and I used to cop heaps of shit from my mates because I used "noob" software, but they shut up when it sounded better and I could do more with it then they could dream of, but it did take some time to learn although I didn't have anyone to bounce ideas off because the VDJ Forum is pretty boring as it's populated with mostly older mobile dj's... DJTT is much more fun and I enjoy the "workflow" far more here.
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