So... I`ve already used the search function, but I couldnt find any thread, which matches my topic...
But its really easy...
Two days ago, I was sitting together with my family for christmas. My cousin, who´s also a DJ, asks me which is my favourite equipment... or the equipment of my dreams...???
So I´ve gone into myself... I started DJing 3 years ago with a controller. But 1 year after that, I moved on to CDJ´s. But rekordbox was so anoying to me (it takes very long to scan your tracks and they are saved on usb in a special format... so you can´t use the stick in your car or anything like that... you can just use it with CDJ´s) and I hated these club-CDJ´s (which are used every weekend for years, so every slider and button is loose... if they work). I moved back to controllerism an bought myself a pioneer ddj sx.
So if I consider to my perfect equipment... It should definitly be a controller, which I could carry around. So the size has to be between the Kontrol S8 and the Pioneer DDJ SX. The SZ is definitly to big and heavy. If you come to the club, there is maybe a DJ which uses CDJ´s. A other one uses Timecode. So you can´t come over with a Pioneer DDJ-SZ and say: Clean the table!!!
It should have displays like the Kontrol S8 (... or the one from Numark). Its a feature , I´ve been waiting for very long time. All the storys about the Laptop-face are really true. When I was mixing with USB on CDJ´s, I`ve looked much more into the crowd and how they were acting...
I cant say why... but it feels dumm, looking on the screen everytime, instead of having your eyes down on the controller/mixer/CDJ´s...
I think Pioneer is on the right way, with their XDJ... A controller... with its own software... screens... and the ability to hook up USB... Thats really could be the next level.
Native Instruments for example... They have their own software, so why don´t bring it together with and on the hardware... So you could connect your music via USB... arange it on the screens... and play with or without laptop.
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