I looked into all those small modular controllers recently. Tried the K2 yesterday. Right now on my desk: DJ3 and X1.
It might be tempting to wanna switch to the K2 because it’d only be 50 bucks for you when swapping for your current equip, and it’s a nice controller for sure. But I think the DJ3 and K2 are slightly different pieces of gear. The DJ3 is really geared towards using Traktor’s internal mixer, and IMO (same applies to FT3) it’s much better at it than any mapping I can imagine for the K2. Which also has to to with hardware, the pots on the K2 not having any indents, no CF (that’s personal preference I guess).
If you sell your DJ3 and interface and you end up not digging your K2 that much and want another modular controller instead, then you’ll have to buy an interface again…
What I’m trying to say is: a second modular controller in addition to the DJ3 might be an alternative? Reloop Contour is nicely built and comes for a ridiculously small price as Controller Version and offers plenty of controls to mess with, for example.
It’d be a different thing if you had been using your DJ3 with external mixer, that wouldn’t make much sense IMO, but from your choice of audio interface that’s probably not what you’ve been doing…
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