Bringing the VCI 400 back: Questions about setting up

Latest drivers offered for the VCI-400. https://support.serato.com/hc/en-us/articles/203593924-Vestax-Hardware-Drivers-and-Firmware

My guess since Vestax has only just recently started coming back into the market (And I highly doubt it’ll ever be into the controller market again), the drivers are what they are and unless someone decides they love Vestax THAT much to write drivers for both Serato (Which Serato is never going to give coding to Anyone who isn’t a trusted employee) and the VCI-400, you’re stuck. Serato should be installing the proper drivers anyways as the VCI-400 is still a supported controller and the standalone mixer is just that, a standalone analogue/digital mixer. No DVS unless you already have a Serato box like the Denon DS1 or Rane Sl2.

From the same year and what Vestax has become: http://djtechtools.com/2014/12/10/vextax-officially-bankrupt-who-could-buy-the-brand/

That casio controller was vestax trying to get other companies to buy their controller tech and slap their name on it so that they could keep their heads above water. Besides, that thing is aimed at algoriddim users, not Serato, Traktor or VDJ users like the VCI 400, 380 or 300 is.

What Vestax is today: http://djtechtools.com/2016/01/14/vestax-reborn-original-founder-hidesato-shiino-shares-vision/

So far, this is the only thing that has been made within the last couple of years that is a true Vestax product. Otherwise, the company basically died after releasing the VCI 400DJ as it got run into the ground due to bad business decisions.

By “Stuck”, what I mean is if that driver doesn’t work for whatever reason, you’re S.O.L..

I honestly love Vestax controllers. I think they had some great ideas and helped launch the controllerism movement by releasing the VCI 100SE, which helped people look at DJ controllers as something more than a kids toy. Unfortunately, they were one of those “ahead of their time” companies that was weird when they were around but now all controllers have what the 100SE brought to the table as standard, and any controllers that deviate from that is considered weird.