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    Terry_42
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    First choose your software.
    Since accurate beatgridding seems important to you, also on tracks that can be “off” your choices are limited to Serato and Rekordbox, whereas I find Serato a little more intuitive. Other options would include Cross or VDJ, but they have a steeper learning curve with those controllers and DVS.

    Now that we have that out of the way I guess you will want to go Serato or Rekordbox.
    They are both very close competitors and look really similar, so either will work for most people. I prefer Serato solely because of Flip and TonePlay which Rekordbox does not have, but those are more expert features.

    Nevertheless from the controllers you then are into the Pioneer RX or SX2 which both have standalone mixer capabilities and also support DVS. Controllers you did not mention that also can do this are the Denon MCX8000 (which is what I use) the DDJ-SZ and those are the ones from the top of my hat.
    None of those support iPads.

    However if you daughter is just wanting to play around a bit, you can get something like an old DDJ-WeGo, reloop Beatpad etc. in the used market very cheap (100 bucks or less) and she can use djay on the ipad which is great fun.

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    Andrew Amies
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    Thanks for your reply! It came just in time, in fact, as I had pretty much made up my mind to go with Traktor and get an S4. I was thinking the benefit of being able to use the iPad as well as a laptop would outweigh the lack of stand alone mixer functionality and beatgridding limitations, added to which the S4 is £300 cheaper then the DDJ-RX/SX2.

    After having gone back and thought it through a bit more, I’ve ordered Pioneer DDJ-RX. I quite like what I’ve seen of Rekordbox so far, so I’ll take my chances going all in on Rekordbox DJ. The current range of DDJ controllers still have pretty high resale value, so the loss wouldn’t be too great if in time I find that I want to switch platform, but I’ve got a feeling I’m going to like it! Looking forward to taking delivery and getting stuck in.

    #2442041
    Tord
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    After having gone back and thought it through a bit more, I’ve ordered Pioneer DDJ-RX.

    As a beginner, I can say that Rekordbox/RekordboxDJ is a nice stable software to work on. Pioneer DJ is putting a lot of effort into the software, which has been a bit fluky in earlier releases.

    Enjoy the RX! 🙂

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