VCI 300 MKII or Kontrol S2? Price Drops for both.

Marco Roa Frias, post: 16812, member: 864 wrote: Either of the units are awesome to use. But, if you buy the Vci-300 you need to factor in buying software. If you go the S2 route, it comes bundled with traktor pro 2.. so figure it out 🙂

Yeah, I saw that. In the end, my budget allowed for more breathing room (tax season), so I narrowed it down to either an s4 or the Denon.

I think I’m going to go with that. Thanks for replying though! Totally makes sense.

LOL. Nice one, Marco. Yeah, I am talking about the MC6000.

I don’t think you’ll go wrong with the s4.

Feel free to post your own impressions once you get to playing around with it.

xan173, post: 16953, member: 1713 wrote: I’ve gone for the S2 and am adding 2x Akai lpd8’s to provide extra control over sample banks and effects. The whole lot will currently set you back £400 – a bargain IMO.

You can see a similar setup with an s4 here [media=youtube]iK0IpnRN_fk[/media]

Also, if you go with S2, you’ll get traktor pro and a free upgrade to v2.5 with the new remix deck functionality when released in May.

That was an excellent suggestion, and probably would have been the route I would have gone, should I have chosen Traktor. Better deal than the S4, I would reckon.

I just bought Traktor Pro, and hopefully I will get an option to upgrade at a discount. I had no idea that Traktor was going to offer a free upgrade to the new software. I figured that the price drop came as a bait in order to lure you in to buy the new software. So to offer it for would be a nice bonus.

In the end, I went with a Denon 6000 series, bought Traktor Pro, and am looking at some CDJs at a decent price for the purpose of learning them.

Expensive, yes, but better to do it right the first time, investment wise.

I’d love to hear how your setup ends up working out.

Marco Roa Frias, post: 17303, member: 864 wrote: CDJs are honestly a good investment specially those midi or HID mappable CDJs. Im saving up for the S4 then saving for Pioneers then so I can run them via MIDI or HID controlling all 4 decks at the same time without having to push buttons to switch.. giving u a better work flow I think.

Agreed. I am going to pick up some used Pioneer CDJ 400s. I found a good deal and had some room left in my budget if the price was right. They were a bit more than I wanted to spend, but not so much that it did not make sense to release the funds.

The advice I was given by my ‘elders’, if you like, was to buy right the first time so I do not have to keep re-buying.

Since much of the gear seems to keep its resale value over time, this seems like a sensible argument.