torq 2 vs vdj? - Digital DJ Tips

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April 19, 2012 at 9:35 am #18801

Phil Morse
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Go with any software other than Torq, as it is heavily rumoured to have been discontinued.

April 23, 2012 at 4:55 pm #19063

Paul Simental
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Good Call Phil!

Think I’ll stick around with VDJ and maybe upgrade to a full version once I get an actual controller in a week or so! yay payday!!!

April 23, 2012 at 7:18 pm #19074

Anonymous
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Don’t forget that Native Instruments now bundle a full version of Traktor 2 Pro with all their products, with a free upgrade to 2.5 at the end of May.

April 23, 2012 at 10:24 pm #19080

Paul Simental
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SDJM I noticed that and actually the controller that seems like I would get the most out of it is indeed an novation twitch … it’s a bit outta my price and o feel experience range right now…

April 23, 2012 at 10:54 pm #1003658

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ExtraLucky13, post: 19186, member: 1976 wrote: SDJM I noticed that and actually the controller that seems like I would get the most out of it is indeed an novation twitch … it’s a bit outta my price and o feel experience range right now…

Being a bit out of your experience range is fine, you can grow into it, and regarding price – I was looking at a Mixtrack Pro originally, but ended up plumping for the then on-offer S2 at basically twice the price. My reason for doing so was that I would outgrow the Mixtrack quickly and then it would basically leave me out of pocket when I upgraded, even if I managed to sell the Mixtrack.

April 24, 2012 at 4:19 am #1003660

Paul Simental
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thats a pretty damn good point…….now if only my wife thought this way…..lol gotta do a lot of ass kissing for that but the good news is mothers day comes before fathers… 😉

April 24, 2012 at 7:49 am #19119

Anonymous
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Regarding the S2 also, it depends how much time you are planning to invest – if you’re going to do an hour a week then it’d be rather pointless investing a significant sum into something like the S2. On the other hand, if you’re planning to invest a significant portion of your leisure time then you will reap dividends by investing properly from the start.

April 24, 2012 at 11:47 am #19129

D-Jam
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Phil Morse, post: 18903, member: 2 wrote: Go with any software other than Torq, as it is heavily rumoured to have been discontinued.

I second that. While I still use it for my own pleasure, I recently purchased Traktor and moved on.

Native Instruments is still selling Traktor for $89 USD. That’s a hell of a deal since it’s normally $250 USD.

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/products/dj/traktor/

May 1, 2012 at 10:58 pm #1003878

Anthony Johnson
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it basically your preference taste and the style of ur DJing. I’ve use many of them because I ended up getting the software. when I fist got into DJing I got Mixmeister while at the same tI found that PCDJ was LACKIime I was using VDJ. Mixmeister is a great software but you don’t have cross faders function I didn’t realize that until I played more on VDJ. So I went to PCDJ DEX my next software. PCDJ didn’t have the skin I wanted to use and so I ended up trying Torq but mapping was a joke and trying to get it to work took up my time. So to tell you I eneded up with owning both VDJ pro and I went ahead and got traktor pro 2 because I ended up liking it. you know it like games u either buy the game becuase you tried it once but not enough to stop ur curiosity to buy it.
in the end I was able to tried many of them and gain the hand on what I know will work for me.

May 2, 2012 at 2:54 am #1003882

Anthony Johnson
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[INDENT]It really basically your preference taste and the style of ur DJing. I’ve use many of them because I ended up getting the software. When I fist got into DJing I got Mixmeister while at the same was using VDJ.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Mixmeister is a great software but you don’t have cross faders function I didn’t realize that until I played more with VDJ when I was learning beat matching and found that there’s no cross fader to switch to a different song. Mixmeister is for those that don’t want to deal with beat matching and everything is done for you automatically. It more like a putting together a big playlist to play if you don’t have request to play a song then it get tricky to play the song next. So I went to PCDJ DEX my next software. PCDJ didn’t have the skin I wanted to use and so I ended up trying Torq but mapping was a joke and trying to get it to work took up my time. So to tell you I eneded up with owning both VDJ pro and I went ahead and got traktor pro 2 because I ended up liking it and you can’t beat the price when you own the controller that come with LE so upgrading was nothing compare to buying it buy itself.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]You know it like games u either buy the game because you tried it once but not enough to stop ur curiosity to buy it.
In the end I was able to tried many of them and gain the hand on what I know will work for me and I can voice my opinion about them because I’ve tried them myself. [/INDENT]
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