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Do you remember the first day you had a DJ controller?

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  • March 1, 2012 at 6:51 pm #1003164
    Edward Onaci
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    7/10: i got my first controller, a VCI-300 MKII, about two months ago. I got it because i was researching DJ controllers for several months and former turntable DJs on a budget recommended it over the Numark Mixtrack Pro. Plus, i wanted something compatible with Itch. I like the controller, and won’t be trading it in (until i can afford the Numark NS-7!). I think if i were new to DJing the experience would have been more exciting (i still remember how it felt to use my first set of turntables!). It was cool, but didn’t keep me up all night like when i first got Serato or when i got my Rane mixer.

    March 2, 2012 at 6:20 pm #16041
    bruzer57
    Member

    5/10 I started with the Numark Omni Control, then onto Numark Mixtrack Pro (Worked straight out of the box but had problems with looping!). I now use a Reloop Contour Interface Edition controller with and external mixer and run Traktor Pro ……..really really sweet control and I would happily recommend it. It sits well next to my mixer on a Roadready stand.
    Happy dayz practice n’ enjoy.

    March 2, 2012 at 7:17 pm #16043
    Papa Bear
    Member

    Yay, my Numark Total Control!
    Spent the first day with connecting and trying to run it in Traktor Dj Studio. BUt wouldn’t work until I downloaded a TSK file.
    Which I had to figure out first, being a complete newbie. And then I spent ages messing around with the mapping…
    Geez, happy this is over 😀

    I’d say 2/10. It was cool, it was awesome, I was happy. But getting it done properly was a real p.i.t.a. 😉

    March 3, 2012 at 12:03 am #16053
    Tero Nousiainen
    Participant

    7/10 Having dj’d with vinyl and cdj’s before I had no clue how to use all the buttons and things in my screen. However fell for it, still love VCI-100.

    March 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm #16084
    Ftruck
    Member

    first day 7/10 s4 installed fine no dramas but speakers hadn’t shown up so had to mix in headphones. day two 0/10 – hardware fault with the s4. Left tempo fader sends out random HiD commands making the software fader move all over the shop of it’s own accord rndering it more or less useless. Still trying to get a warranty repair organized with NI.

    March 3, 2012 at 12:58 pm #16087
    Deathray
    Member

    My first controller was a pretty hands on piece of equipment that integrated my brain into its matrix. You would have two high quality audio files stored on a outdated disc format and you’d have to lay them out on a rotating platter and lay a device onto the rotating audio file in order to read it. Oh, and you would have two of these rotating platters each with there own set of reading devices. You’d then have a separate box covered in knobs, faders, lights and switches that would “mix” the incoming audio signals sent from the other two devices just like the interface on a computer screen, but only it was in 3D and you use physical gestures like on a I pad (weird, I know). I order to integrate your brain into this matrix of alien technology, you attach a small set of speakers to your ears and they would reproduce the audio files stored on the disc’s as a sound. You then have to work out with audio file was or a higher tempo and which was slower and adjust the rotation speed of the platters accordingly using your hands and a small fader next to each of the rotating platters.

    I still have this setup somewhere….

    March 3, 2012 at 1:01 pm #16088
    Deathray
    Member

    I all serious, I just used the Keyboard and an Oxygen 8 Midi controller…. Simples. Worked all the time every time.

    March 3, 2012 at 3:48 pm #16091
    bruzer57
    Member

    Here’s where i’m at now…….a bit minimalist but it works just fine.
    I’m in the spare room.
    Mixer is a BEHRINGER DDM4000, RELOOP CONTOUR INTERFACE EDITION, HP Pavilion 4Gb Ram 250Gb HDrive The computer is solely dedicated to music files) and Numark Redwave Phones ( I think they have a little too much Bass end but they work well ), although I intend getting the Reloop RHP-20’s ( more flexible on the head without wanting to jump off !! which is what the Redwaves tend to do ).
    OK so it’s looking like a Germanic set-up but I have found the equipement to be very reliable so far and reasonably price for what you get. The speakers in the background came out of a nightclub in Plymouth when a refurb was being done and I paid £50 for them….BARGAIN!!!

    March 6, 2012 at 10:40 pm #16249
    Gordon Feeney
    Participant

    3/10.

    Day 1: Pioneer DDJ-T1 and Traktor LE. DDJ-T1 is plastic, no kill switches, faders don’t trigger Traktor without a lot of faffing about, switching effects in and out causes signal drop-outs even on a reasonably well-spec’d machine and Traktor, like every other peice of bloatware out there, needs a powerful machine to run it on.

    Day umpteen: Pioneer is still plastic, faders still don’t work properly and effects still cause problems even after upgrading to Traktor Pro (NI says it’s Pioneer’s fault, Pioneer says otherwise, mug punter in the middle as usual). So I will be getting something better soon – possibly Traktor Kontrol S4 as hopefully the native (no pun intended) hardware will work better with the software, although I quite fancy the look of the Reloop Jockey as well.

    YaHozna.

    March 10, 2012 at 3:59 am #16504
    roman.hreczuk1
    Participant

    My score is 9/10

    Before getting my Numark Mixtrack Pro (1 week before Christmas 2011), I had used Virtual DJ Pro with the Mixlab Skin, for 2 years beatmatching by using the mouse on the platters, with a few keyboard short-cuts, regularly performing live on different Internet radio Stations.

    It took me a 2 days to figure how to configure the Driver on my controller so I can use it with the WAV-Out mix on my PC so I can do Audio-Video Broadcasting. Using Shoutcast wasn’t a problem at all.

    As soon as that was sorted, it took me a day to get used to the basics of my controller, finding it a lot easier to use my controller than just using my mouse and keyboard on Virtual DJ, how come you may ask?

    Well, suddenly I had my hands free, I could do more by doing various things at the same time, like using the X-Fader and Volume at the same time as an example. All I did was adapt the techniques which used when I was mixing with the software to my controller.

    By the way I am self learned having no one to even briefly show me what to do, not like a lot of people.

    March 10, 2012 at 4:13 pm #1003238
    José Reach
    Member

    6/10

    I bought myself a Kontrol S4 in december, but it was a busy period. My family had discouraged me to buy it, as they rather see me hard working at college than DJing. I decided that it I live my life and still chose to buy it, but deep down I still felt the resistance which brought the fun down.
    It took me a while to install everything decently with upgrades from traktor. I had distortion problems with my controller, wich I fixed few days later by turning the internet network off. I wasn’t used to a controller like that, it was new to me to play with 4 decks and samples decks.

    Beside of that, the unboxing part, when I holded it in my hand for the first time, the smell of a new controller, to see it completely clean without dust, scratches or finger prints, to feel the knobs and the jogs with my hand, … that was just awesome! Knowing that you own the most awesome and powerfull digital controller on the market and playing music with it made me feel powerfull.

    April 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm #1003679
    jalou1995
    Member

    BCD2000 5yrs ago…. terrible experience 2/10

    January 24, 2013 at 7:24 pm #35637
    aaron altar
    Participant

    7/10
    I got a Numark N4 last June. I’d been mixing vinyl for 15 years and my mixer had just crapped out on me. I decided to give digital a chance and so after much research I decided on the N4 because it could function as a standalone mixer as well as do digital. At first I had trouble assigning the decks so only one would play and then I had trouble with the cue. I think I had a few other troubles too. I went to the Numark website and got it all sorted in a couple of hours and off I went. Now, I rarely play vinyl and I love the digital world. By the way, this website was instrumental in my decision to give digital a chance. Thanks Phil.

    January 25, 2013 at 2:01 am #35652
    NietzSKY
    Participant

    1/10 on my first day. Took me a little to learn that the highest numbered 4trak drivers weren’t the newest and I didn’t have monitors. Once I began to catch on/learn some basic mapping, it went up to an 8/10.

    As far as Carl Cox mixing, I feel I’ve still got a little ways to go.

    January 25, 2013 at 7:31 am #35669
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I think 9/10.
    I had so much fun exploring all the tunes and getting things to work. Yes it was hard sometimes and a pain, but it was also soooo much fun.

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