Can anyone suggest a controller for Cross DJ

Cross aims to be the most open DJ Software platform, which means they have a policy of trying to support as many controllers as possible. Me being a DENON afficionado I would definitely say have a look at MC3000 and even MC2000 which are natively supported in Cross DJ.

I think MixVibes have an impressive list of supported controllers in my opinion (with the noticeable and regretable omission of the Terminal Mix 4 I must say), so the choice for your chosen software is pretty broad.

Search the forum for some of the earlier posts on “check lists” for what features you could want in a controller. First find out what you want to have, feature-wise, then make a shortlist, then try seeing/feeling your shortlist controllers live in a store or at a friends place. Then make your final choice.

That way you know that the final 2-3 controllers you are looking at have at least gotten all of (or close to all of) the features you want. Then it’s a question of personal taste, looks, feel of knobs, faders, jogwheel and probably availability and budget.

So, start with the features you feel you want/need. Don’t start by setting a number of controllers in line and start picking.

Greetinx,
C.

Some report that the DDJ-SX is really good in Cross.

Yeah the mixtrack pro II should work out of the box, at least due to mixvibes website.

Sorry the spin is one of the few controllers I am not familiar with.

HID is actually a protocol that has more to do with USB than with MIDI. It is called Human Interface Device Protocol.
Now the problem with MIDI is 2 things that influence especially things that need to happen either very fast (scratching, jog movement, finger drumming…) as MIDI has some degree of latency that cannot be overcome or things that need high resolutions (again jogs) as MIDI is limited in how granular it can be.

Now to overcome these shortcomings and since we use USB anyways to hook things up programmers can use HID directly. Since HID is a much more modern protocol (actually invented with USB) it has far less latency (things will feel more tight) and can have nearly endless resolution on predefined things (jogs).
However there is also a problem with this. MIDI is predefined and easy to remap, since it is made for music, has predefined channels and parameters to work with. This is why there is “midi mapping”.
HID has not been developed for music and only gives very basic things (hence its great performance), but each manufacturer uses different things and ways to program their HID stuff. So the HID things on your controller have to be supported natively by the software and cannot be re-mapped in most cases.

I never had a problem with pad triggering, but it bothers some people.
On the other hand I had serious problems with scratching and can only really scratch when latency is really low and jogs are tight. Hence I use the Terminal Mix with Serato.