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Lack of motorized platter controllers for traktor, any insight to shed?

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  • December 27, 2012 at 9:46 pm #34153
    railings_731@yahoo.com
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    To my knowledge, the ONLY “controller” that has motorized platters is the NS7 by Numark. It works with VDJ and Serato.

    December 28, 2012 at 3:23 am #34161
    NietzSKY
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    Yeah, the story goes that Quartz was working on traktor integration for the ns7 a little while ago, but backed out of the project (I hear it is incredibly complex). My dream controller would be a traktor native motorized fusion of the ns6/4trak with the ddj-sx. I understand motorized platforms drive the price of the controller up by a few hundred and increase the weight, but I’d totally be willing to take the good with the bad.

    Think that motorized platter controllers are still up-and-coming, and the problem is that the market is still young?

    December 28, 2012 at 8:32 am #34175
    Terry_42
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    The problem is that for motorized platters you need really tight software integration.
    The only jogwheels that support native mode in Traktor are NIs controllers (apart from some CDJs) on every other controller you have a slight (e.g. 4Trak, DigitalJockey) or severe (e.g. Terminal Mix) downside to the jog latency and resolution.
    This is one way that NI forces you to buy their controllers or vendors to pay a premium for the integration.

    On the other hand Serato from the start had one of the tightest and most latency free implementations of high res midi and HID, so this is prolly why they went for Serato with the NS7.

    The only way to get the same from Traktor is to get a CDJ with motorized platters and use it with Traktor Scratch Pro license through a Traktor certified mixer. (Or the newest Denons I think have native Midi mode for Traktor), but this is of course at least 3000 to 5000 bucks of equipment you need to shelf out.

    December 28, 2012 at 11:29 am #34190
    NietzSKY
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    yikes. Sounds like I’ll keep dreaming for now, thanks for the heads up Terry.

    December 29, 2012 at 5:50 pm #34250
    squarecell
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    My Stanton SCS.1 rig works great with Traktor, but it’s understandably not everyone’s cup of tea.

    December 29, 2012 at 11:55 pm #34260
    NietzSKY
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    The scs1s do seem nice, I just wish there was an all-in-one. I guess I’ll have to compromise.

    Went to guitar center and played around a little on the ns7 set-up. That controller alone makes me want to make the switch to serato, even though I really prefer traktor in terms of software.

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