What to add? X1, F1, Midi Fighter, Mashicne? What do you use?

I have an S2 F1 and Maschine Mikro. I love the combination! It really depends on what you want to do…I like having the mikro cause I make beats as well so it has dual function and right now both the maschine and mikro are on sale. You can also route it as live input into Traktor. However the downside is that you have to learn how to use maschine software as well (or can be seen as a plus)

With the F1 you have the full control over the remix decks but at the same time there is a dual function to use it to trigger cue points filters etc; and some fx. Its plug and play so it seemlessly integrates with traktor.

I dont have an X1 or midi fighter so I cant speak to that.

At the end of the day its your choice but I would highly suggest gettign gear that can be used for multiple purposes

Michael Lawrence, post: 25989, member: 856 wrote:
At the end of the day its your choice but I would highly suggest gettign gear that can be used for multiple purposes

That’s a very good point IMO.

To start off with the X1: I don’t see how this would add much to your setup out of the box. You can use it to control Decks C+D in addition to the S2, but gaining two more track decks doesn’t seem to be what you are after?

Since it seems that you are really interested in the Remix decks, as of now there is only two choices really: F1 or Midifighter 3D. And this is where the quote comes in: Since use of the Remix decks is a little bit limited in reality (see a recent DJTT article) as long as you want to do more with it than just using them as really fancy sample decks, I’d definitely go for the Midifighter 3D. You could fully control one remix deck with that (like with the F1), but if you grow bored of that it still offers soo many things to try out and play around with. IMO one of the coolest pieces of gear around right now, if I had the money I’d get one right away 😀

If you are leaning more towards producing, the Maschine might be really great. To really use it as intended production wise you need the big one though, and the MkII weighs in at $599,- so that might be a turn off.