I Love Traktor but…
I love Traktor Pro, as an interface it has pretty much everything I need although it lacks the flexibility that T3 has.
So, I’m afraid to ask but… do you think TP is becoming the Microsoft Windows of Dj software?
Hola gusto con hablar con mas latinos. What do you mean by becoming the Microsoft Windows of Dj software?
Saludos
You mean the industry standard? It already is.
Yes, they have some development issues at the time, but they’re hiring. In this economy. So I’m confident they’ll get their act straight in the course of 2009. So gather round and let us play the waiting game.
Well, any new version comes with new (or improved) bugs. They seem to be trying to be the best, but just as it happens with windows, they show a heavier, more complex and unstable version. There’s is a difference betwen trying to put a really good program for people to use (specially when you are going to use it live) and trying to make the “perfect” software, there is no perfect software and the more you try, the more you mess it.
Thanks for the reply, lately i’ve been feeling that Native Instruments has just gotten too big and they have lost respect for the people.
I would say that Traktor Pro is more like windows vista. Its kind of the new thing, but it has many issues. On the other side you have windows xp which has many years out in the market and most of the bugs solved or, with a known solution. The same will happen with Traktor 3. Xp is the prefered OS for IT support and the safer one, same as T3.
But keeping proportions… NI is going in a good path leading in inovation and research
there’s potential in traktorpro, but at the moment i wouldn’t gig with it. hopefully with future updates it will become a rock stability and feature-wise much how traktor3 is.
despite the stability issues my opinion is that traktorpro is a better option for more straightforward A->B dance music mixing, I would definitely use it in the future for my edm sets. For more experimental mash-up mixing I prefer Traktor3’s interface and features, it just feels far more intuitive and flexible to me than TraktorPro.
98 times out of 100 if I go out and a DJ is using a laptoop, he’s using Serato. One of the hundred times he’s using Ableton Live.
TPro lacks functionality for straightup mixing that Traktor 2.5.3 has, which is why I stuck with it. And 2.5.3 has never crashed on me a single time that didn’t involve a corrupt mp3 file.
What do you mean it lacks flexibility ? Maybe you could give us some examples.
I am able to do everything i was doing in Traktor 3 and then some - the midi mappings have changed but the functionality is still there, you just gotta learn how things are mapped differently now, its much more flexible.
Isn’t Serato the industry standard? 
+1 with Moniker, Serato is industry standard. But I understand where you are coming from with T-Pro being on the cutting edge. But being that they added all these feature you more likely to have more problems.
The reason Searto is the standard. They used the KISS method. 2 decks, loops, cue points, 2 sound card SL1 & TT57. Sure you provide the decks, but most clubs run either CDJ’s or 1200’s being that they are also the standard.
Now Traktor, has NI, making the software, and 3rd party soundcards & controllers. Just cuz something say its Traktor/Scratch ready doesnt mean it was made for Traktor.
yeah i can underline the fact that serato is industry standard. im living near a club where the worlds best djs come to.
from one place you can directly look into the equipment and every dj i have seen till now (diplo, a-trak, aoki, fake blood etc etc.) is using serato or no laptop at all. :]
Oh, noooo! Steve Aoki,…if you live in Cali, and you mention that name on this Forum its like say Beetle Juice three times. Its going to start a fire storm on why people/dj hate his soo much.
But back to Traktor, the reason djs like using it, its because we want to use something different. Alot of user of Traktor have been using it since Traktor 1 or 2 before Serato even came out. And we have seen it grow since it was a baby, now its a teenager…acting up and what not
Ha, my ex-girlfriend would actually curl up into a ball if you threatened to say Beetlejuice 3 times…
I always went to 2 just to be mean.
Serato seems to be industry standard in the US and with hiphop DJ’s, but traktor is standard in Europe and for the techno/electro scene it seems.
It’s true only hip hop DJs use serato. 
Serato Dj’s & Hip Hop go hand in hand, but I’ve seen alot of dj’s use it to mixing everything. I would pay to see a Dj in New Zealand talk smack about Searto, I’ve heard its against the Law…
I do not agree. Serato is the standard even in europe : You can even find a bunch of clubs where you just have to plug your laptop on the SL1.
Traktor is not the industry standard at all . This comes from someone who has been using Traktor since version 2
Traktor might be the standard software here, Serato still beats Traktor specially when Dj’s are using external units like turntables.
The reason why I think TP is not as flexible as T3 is because the menu for Cues, Loops Beatjumps and Grids is not actually very logical. I liked the arrangments you could make in T3 way more. Of course I cannot say I like T3 more than TP, as I said earlier, in the way of becoming (maybe sometime in the future) a great Dj application, they have stopped listening to people. Any kind of succesful software has to rely on their users, and this is something that has made a great diference, it happens with Ableton where you feel the software is able to adapt to you and your needs, it also happens to a lot of applications whether we´re talking about music, graphic design or whatever.
Ipods are the industry standard for Mp3 Players, the guys from Apple know it, they know we will buy it, they do whatever they want even if that means selling horrible sound.