Smalles controller with Soundcard

before you start reading, this doesn’t have a soundcard, I find all small controllers soundcards lacking in quality, your best bet is to get a controller without a soundcard and a Native Instruments Audio 2… If you wan’t the smallest controller you could get the icon idj, I have just mapped the absolute crap out of it in vdj. It’s a toy but it’s a fun toy, and if you replace the knobs for the eq, and the volume and crossfader knobs, its a useable toy just a little bigger than a nanopad, so you could set it up on your lap to have a play anytime you feel like it, couple that with a netbook and you are set…

Truly don’t buy the tiny controller units like the DJ Tech Duo and all of those, unless you’re it in for fun. Maybe the smallest you could go is the Hercules MK4

Don’t go minimalist unless you pay the good ones like the Faderfox maybe, if you’re in it for good, go better. If it’s for fun, go for it, a waste of money in my opinion, those small controllers won’t help you learn to mix, or even mix.. properly at least.

if you don’t need to use a pitch fader you could always get a reloop contour interface edition, I had one that never got used, it’s great quality construction fits right next to a 4 channel mixer when raised up a little and each unit has a 10 out soundcard for 4 decks and a headphone out, it has internal shifts for each button, the jog is the highest resolution you can get, although the top of the jog is anodised aluminium so a little slippery, the jogs have 10 modes for each deck, it’s a great controller I just don’t use it as I didn’t have the space for it with my current setup, and I didn’t really need the extra functions it offered…