The ONLY thing you need to practice in Traktor to be able to play on CDJs in manual beatmatching! Which can easily be done with any controller that features a jog-wheel and a pitch fader, and by turning off all visual aids (BPM counter, phase meter).
Everything else (play, cue, hotcues, loops) works EXACTLY the same on CDJs as it does in Traktor: you press the respective button and - BOOM - there you go.
Getting accustomed to the different layout and figuring out how to set cues/loops on the actual hardware (hint: if you're playing on a model that doesn't support quantize, you probably want to leave your hands of the loop/auto-loop features, since that can get really messy...) should take less than 5 minutes even for the most dim-witted, technically most un-savvy DJ you can imagine.
And why the heck should NI be interested in making changes to their product to emulate
another company's product???? Why would they want to make those changes to make it easier for you to switch from their product to another one once you can afford it?
In agree with you as it's NI's problem if their customers are unhappy - if they are unhappy because NI's products don't work like they're supposed to, that is.
It's NOT NI's problem if you're unhappy because their product isn't more like another company's product.
Just like it's not your girlfriends problem you're unhappy she isn't Giselle Bündchen...
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