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Serato and 4 Decks?

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  • January 11, 2015 at 11:28 am #2119001
    DJ Vintage
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    The software supports 4-deck use.

    Personally I don’t like using 4-decks on a 2-channel controller. Too much change of moving the fader while you are controlling the wrong deck and lot’s of deck changing for even the simplest of tasks.

    The MTP2 doesn’t have deck change buttons I think and I am not sure if Serato will let you change the mapping so you can add that functionality yourself.

    Upgrading to a 4-channel controller would make much more sense if you are serious about being a 4-deck DJ. You’d still only have 2 “physical” decks (i.e. jogwheels, pitchfaders and such), but at least you’d have seperate channel faders, crossfader use, EQ, FX assign, gain/trim and such for each deck.

    PioneeerDDJ-SX
    Reloop Beatmix 4
    Reloop Terminal Mix 8
    Denon MC6000
    Numark Mixtrack Quad

    Just to name a few.

    January 12, 2015 at 5:26 am #2119191
    DJ Eliezer
    Participant

    Thanks for the advice DJ Vintage. I am kinda trying to decide still if I want to go to a 4 deck controller. I mainly wanna use it just to have my own sample sets and scratch sounds and scapulas loaded on the other two decks so I can still set up my playlist on the other two decks. I mainly do weddings and some big youth parties and corporate business parties. What are your thoughts on staying at 2 decks vs 4 decks? Im not really interested in ever doing club djing or the sort. I mainly just plan on sticking to my current gigs because the money is good and I try to stay only playing clean music.

    January 12, 2015 at 8:10 am #2119241
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Most recent 2-channel decks have the option of running samples by using the pads as triggers. Usually they’ll have a way to control their volume as well (often as secondary function of some knob or another). I don’t know the MTP2 intimately enough to tell you exactly how it would work on that one, but I am pretty sure you can get that to work as it has the sampler pads.

    Would that be enough?

    January 12, 2015 at 9:31 am #2119411
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    You can use the SP-6 sample player and trigger it through the pads on the Mixtrack Pro.
    As for the other things, no the Mixtrack Pro does not support 4 decks, this is why the software runs in 2 deck mode.
    Any of the upgrade controllers up there will enable 4 deck mode.

    January 12, 2015 at 6:16 pm #2119921
    DJ Eliezer
    Participant

    Thank you both for your help. The SP-6 will definitely come in handy for a few of the things I am trying to do but the main thing I am looking to do is creating my own scratch sounds. I am taking the samples course right now through digitaldjtips and I know the SP-6 won’t help me with being able to play with those so thats the main reason I am contemplating a step up in controller. I love my Mixtrack Pro 2, it was definitely in my opinion the best controller to start on and learn with and for the most part I can still live with it and make all my people happy at my gigs with it but I think I am just itching for a step up and I figure if I am going to do that then why not go to something with 4 decks and be able to have that for the scratch samples I want to play with while still mixing two tracks together. Really thinking about the PioneeerDDJ-SX or the PioneeerDDJ-SX2 or maybe the PioneeerDDJ-SR since it is more around the price I want to spend but I really like the SX and SX2.

    January 12, 2015 at 8:36 pm #2120011
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    I don’t use the SP-6 so I am not sure, but what exactly is it that the SP-6 would fail to help you do?

    As far as new controllers go, I’d go for the SX2 10 times out of 10, but that is just me. And I have an SX, which is a fine controller, but there is no real reason not to get the SX2 if you are buying new at this moment, imho.

    January 12, 2015 at 8:43 pm #2120021
    DJ Eliezer
    Participant

    The SP-6 would not help me as far as scratching, you basically just load a sound in the SP-6 and hit a trigger pad to play the sound. I am looking for the functionality of 4 decks so I can keep my two songs that I am mixing on decks 1 and 2 and then have a scratch sample loaded on decks 3 or 4 so that I can use those to scratch while one song is playing and still have the next tune loaded up to mix in my 2nd deck. Do you think the SX2 provides that much more features and value as compared to the SR which is roughly $400 cheaper?

    January 12, 2015 at 9:24 pm #2120071
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Oh right, you actually want to scratch! Got it.

    Well, the SR:
    -is not a standalone mixer, the SX(2) is
    -has limited pads compared to the SX2 (things like the new Serato Flip function isn’t supported)
    -is still a 2-channel controller (although 4-deck), which -imho and in my experience- means a lot of paying attention when switching decks. I’ve had too many “mistakes” that way.
    Just to name a few.

    So, yeah, I actually do feel that the SX2 is worth the extra money. If you are gonna upgrade anyway …
    If money is an issue, you could look at the Terminal Mix 8. Terry gives it very high grades and he wears the print off the front face :-).

    If I am correct, it’s not a standalone mixer, but it IS a 4-channel mixer at about the same price as the SR.

    January 12, 2015 at 9:38 pm #2120121
    DJ Eliezer
    Participant

    Just read the review on this site for the Terminal Mix 8. Thanks for the advice. I really like the lay out and features of the Terminal Mix 8. Si I guess I am just down to decided between the SX2 and the Terminal Mix 8. They both come with full version of Serato but I already have the full version so that doesn’t really help me decide. Thank you for all your responses, they have been very helpful and informative.

    January 13, 2015 at 10:03 am #2120531
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    There is also a sticky thread on the forum here where you can watch my personal view of the Terminal Mix 8 and why I chose it and a performance pad video.

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