Wow you guys are all very helpful! I really appreciate the well thought out responses and the warm welcome so thank you!
@GroovePunk – I have never heard of a DJ store before. I assume music stores have DJing equipment giving the explosion of electronic music and the DJing scene in recent years. I will figure out a way to try serato before I make a decision. Thanks!
@Mike Ward – As of now I am not really into tinkering. That is not to say I wont be if I find DJing is something I enjoy but while this may be irrelevant to the forum I have AD/HD and so I tend to learn more slowly than others and so I am definitely going to be starting with the basics and getting those down. I tend to be indecisive so that is one big thing I want to work on is being able to quickly pick good tracks that flow with what I am doing.
Good to hear from someone who owns a Novation Twitch that its a good piece of equipment. It seems like a good bang for your buck and I am all about bang for your buck when making purchases. I am not really interested in scratching to be honest. I mean it might be fun to try out but its by no means at all a priority for me. How is the Novation Twitch limited without jog wheels compared to controllers with jog wheels if i may ask?
I have heard great things about Mixxx as well but I think I want to go with something a bit more commercial and streamlined for beginning.
@Terry_42 – What makes the Reloop Beatmix 4 such a Bang for your buck controller if I may ask? Or could you point me in a direction of where I can get more quality information via reviews and whatnot. It looks like a very nice controller, as such I am definitely interested in it. Judging by the fact that its 299 euros on the website I am assuming in US dollars it comes close to $400 brand new? I have seen and read a small bit about the Numark and the Pioneer but will do some more in depth research on them.
@DJ Vintage – I do like the look of the waveforms in Traktor but I definitely need to see Serato in action. I don’t really understand beatgridding much…
I read in an article on this website that stated this “The Twitch is small, light and original. Twitch is great if you’re happy to beatgrid your music. For freestyling (ie manual beatmatching), jogs are still the best way of phase matching your music; I don’t scratch either but I do like to DJ with jogs when mixing non tempo-matched material. But if you really don’t need jogs, then Twitch has lots of innovative features that’ll keep you happy for a long time.”
I was a slight bit confused by this. Mark Ward maybe you can enlighten me?
and as for sampling and remixing I think it will be awhile before I have the skills for those.
