Begginer controller

Also, the reason the MP3 E2 is cheaper, near as I can tell, is because it is an outdated model that isn’t made any more. That’s not the end of the world, of course, but it could mean trouble if you ever need any kind of support for it.

If you make the move to Traktor, I would be happy to share my mapping with you. The stock one from Hercules is usable, but I have tweaked just a few things to make it nicer and to help soften the rough edges a bit.

Specifically:

1. Tweaked the loop controls a little to separate the loop activate/deactivate button from the create loop button so that you can turn them on and off at any point. In the process, I removed the keylock button, because I always have that turned on.
2. Made it so that holding the shift button turns the volume fader into a pitch slider to allow for better beat matching than using the aforementioned pitch rocker switch. I made it so both the volume and the pitch faders are soft pick-up, which means you have to move the slider back to where it was for that slider before it starts changing anything, which keeps you from accidentally causing drastic jumps when switching modes.
3. Made the shift and track up/down buttons so they toggle the view to switch from expand the upper decks and contract the lower decks, and vice versa. This is part of a larger (unfinished) goal of making it so this toggle switches all the controls from the upper to lower decks.

To start with, the Instinct comes with DJUCED, which is an OK package to start with, but you probably won’t be happy with it for long. You may not choose Traktor, but you’ll probably move on to a different software pretty quickly.

For headphones, Terry gave a strong recommendation on Sennheiser S201s, which are about 20 euro for a pair that I picked up after his recommendation, and have been very happy with. They are wired, but I also have a pair of wireless headphones, and the sound is nowhere near as good. To be fair, I don’t have a pair of what you linked, but the nature of wireless headphones usually means the signal is compressed in some way to fit it through the wireless, and they just don’t sound as good – plus they will introduce a little bit of latency, though that may not be terribly noticeable to you.

I can’t comment on speakers, I do not have a special pair of speakers, I just use either my regular computer speakers when practicing or I use the house sound system when I play for an audience.

The RMX beats the Instinct, hands down.

Much more full featured – it has all the knobs and sliders you’re going to want to have.

The Beatmix is hands down the best controller of those you have selected.