serato or traktor?
serato or traktor?
come on man…you know better than to make a thread/poll like this…
I thought for sure this was going to be a loverocket thread
ha!
hopefully loverocket has them all out of his system…
I owned Torq for a few months, then Serato for a few years, then a few months ago I switched to Traktor.
What I liked about Serato is that it was rock solid. What it did, it did well. I had no issues with any of its features and it ran perfectly on my fairly weak spec Windows laptop. Negatives - No FLAC support (at the time - it has it now), and when scratching, it wasn’t great at handling very slow record movements.
Traktor offers more potential and has more features, but I’ve found a few bugs in the software and reporting them to Native Instruments has been a painful process. I find that it’s nowhere near as good as Serato at automatically analysing the BPM of tracks and the grid is usually way off - bear in mind that I’m not playing EDM though (Traktor seems fine with music where there’s a very steady kick thumping away like a heartbeat). When key lock is off, I think it performs better than Serato for scratching. When key lock is on, it’s worse. Certain actions will hammer the resources of my computer, which is a high end machine with a Core i7 3770K, 16GB of RAM, SSD etc.
Overall, for my needs, I have to give the nod to Serato. I’ve had buyer’s remorse about Traktor since the day I bought it and I still have it now. Perhaps that was made worse by the fact that Traktor 2.5 came out shortly after I bought it - which is a major upgrade - and that bugs need to be ironed out, but still, I can only comment based on my experience. I’m currently saving for a Rane 62 and I will dump Traktor when I get that, but software updates may make Traktor much better (or Serato worse!), so my opinion is certainly not set in stone.
I love them both…for their own uses …
hahah!
That’s like asking broom or cheese. There is no context for the question.
Are you asking witch is better?
Are you asking what each of us use?
Are you asking which costs more?
Are you asking which would be better for making pizza?
What exactly would you like to find out?
Depends,
As you know, I use serato because serarto is free, and really brings out the best of the classic turntablism.
However, I do have a love for Traktor’s remix capabilities.
IMO Serato is for turnabalists
and traktor is for controllerists.
Im just wondering what your opinion is…i want to see who likes what…i kno people who say" oh straktor is the best i loe it…serato sucks" and i know people who say" serato is the best,traktor cant compare" so im just wondering…in my opinion trAKTOR is better but i just wanna see what will get the most votes.lol
Personally, I prefer black socks. Not so much because of that song that implies ‘they never get dirty’, but more because black socks tend to compliment my shoes and shorts more-so than white ones.
I’ve tried white socks before and they just don’t do it for me.
I guess at the end of the day, it’s personal preference. Do white socks match your outfit better? Are your floors always so clean that wearing white socks doesn’t make you feel dirty? If so, we may have a difference of opinion- but that’s ok. I’m not gonna hate on people wearing white socks, just because I wear black ones.
Anyways I hope this helps.
Traktor 2.6 supposedly has a much better BPM detection algorithm so hang on for a short while…
I used Traktor alongside my vinyls before DVS was born, then picked up serato as my first DVS system…at the time serato was notably more stable than final scratch. I def. liked serato a lot more, though that was finalscratch, not traktor as we know it.
I like the portability of controllers, and since picking up Ableton I’d played around with a few controller setups and even mucked around with my controllers and Traktor. Played a few house parties with Traktor & controller, serato still my main gig beast.
Fast forward to today, and I feel I want the full package of DVS for scratch/juggle routines, but I also want a controller setup for button mashing goodness in the same application, during the same set and it looks to me like Traktor is really the only way this is going to happen.
When seratoDJ was announced, I was hoping they would integrate the DVS into it - but it’s not happening, and while it does have a couple unique features…they don’t stack up against full controller / DVS integration across 4 decks.
With the release of this new Z2 mixer at such a nice price, I feel as though a switch may be imminent.
Well I’ve never used Serato so I don’t really know much about how it actually operates. I started with VDJ in like 2005ish and then upgraded to Traktor about 6 months before version two when it was still all orange. I don’t plan on changing any time soon because now I’m fully invested in it. and I know it inside an out.
That new DDJ-SX definitely made me raise an eyebrow towards Serato and maybe one day ill DL a demo or something to try it out. But I don’t think I would ever make the jump :-/
was a huge traktor user, got tired of mapping and remapping stuff, library mgmt and so on. i moved to Serato SSL, then itch & intro. love the idea that its plug and play and very stable.
I haven’t used Traktor in ages, can you comment on it’s current stability?
Virtual DJ, FTW.
“Oasis or Blur?” - Father Damien [Father Ted]
Since OP doesn’t ask for any reasons I’ll simply say: Traktor
Well I am currently using it with an S2/F1 combo and am using a Windows 7 Laptop with an i5 and only 4GB of RAM. I have tried to break it to make it clip and it just refuses to. But I have a basic setup with all NI gear so maybe that’s why. It works well through.