Finally pulled the trigger on something new.

DJ Life & Community General Discussion
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Finally pulled the trigger on something new.

Well, after using Live for the past 2 years I have been dying to move to something more traditional. I want to go back to mixing on 2 decks but I also would LOVE to learn how to play on TTs as well. I have spent many nights the last few weeks staring at my shopping cart online with my finger hovering over the ORDER NOW button on 2 CDJ2000 nexus and a DJM900 Nexus. I think I finally made a compromise that I think makes sense.

Tonight I pulled the trigger on a Pioneer DDJ-SZ. Looks like its time to learn serato. I figured this gives me the layout of the club standard CDJs and learning serato also gives me the ability to one day buy some turntables and learn that. Still at a fraction of the price of the CDJ2000s and the DJM.

All in all I loved the past 2 years playing with Live, a bunch of controllers and finger drumming with my MFP but something inside me longed for 2 decks and a mixer. Time to lock myself in my room and learn serato, just when I REALLY started to feel comfortable with Live…

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Congrats! You’re in for some fun! (and probably a bit of frustration :wink:)

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Less is more, congrats.

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Ironically I thought a lot about the frustration part. I thought back to 2 years ago when I didnt know how to use live at all and how frustrated I was but then I remembered that everything is learnable so I just needed to do it. After watching a few demos on Serato, Its MUCH more straight forward then trying to use Live to perform with when you have zero production background. So I actually expect this to go a lot smoother.

I agree, Only thing Im going to Miss (and dont plan on selling) is my MFP. Everything else is up for sale.

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Tight man let me borrow it thanks

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Is this one of the standalone controllers? I’m always confused by all the models. I’ve got dibs on it after kwal.

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Fa Sho!

Yea, It is their flagship controller. Its the exact same size as 2 CDJ2000s and DJM900 and is set up very similar to it only it also has the 8 pads on each side.