pros and cons – digital controller selection

– Vestax VCI-380
If you want to go Vestax VCI route, you might as well go to the newest model, the VCI-400, as it offers 4 channel solutions

– DDJ-SR,
Pretty solid, expensive controller, the downside is this thing is bulky, heavy and its pretty big to fit in the dj booth you really have to have an extra extra spaces for it, this would last you long then again you can always wait for the newest series which is the the SZ one,

I miss the Denon MC6000 mk2 in your line-up. By far the most compact (19″ form factor), best build (when they say “built like a tank, you can take that literally) and now fully Serato supported.

It ticks all of your boxes I believe. 4-deck Serato control, fully stand-alone (matrix) mixer.

The lay-out has improved a lot since mk1, as has the soundcard (now 24-bit). The jogs, albeit it of the smaller variety (many controllers have this size by the way), are excellent. I just sold my mk1 which I used hard for a few years (since it came out in 2011) and I sold it “as new” because you couldn’t tell it was used. At the Frankfurt Prolight+Sound fair next week I intend to visit the guys at the Denon booth and get me a nice shiny mkII. I had to play a few gigs without it and with another controller and I missed my good ole 6000.

Greetinx.

VCI 400 has 2 master outputs… just use one for the booth, most booth monitors have their own volume control anyways…