Ok, sorry, I’m pretty clueless about this kind of thing so am quite out of my depth with any discussions along these lines. My only previous experience of DJing was doing some basic stuff with CDs a couple of times about 10 years ago. I don’t really have any wishes other than what I’ve said I wanted to do in my first post really. I don’t think I’m likely to have much else that I want out of a DJ controller, though I guess it’d be fun to have other features to mess around with to get a feel for if I’d ever want to do anything more advanced.
The Denon MC2000 sounds great, but I’m not sure if I’d be wasting my money going for that or not. The Mixtrack Pro 2 is another that I’d consider, and is definitely more affordable. I imagine anything more advanced than this would just be daunting, based on my capabilities at this stage. I’m wary of going for something too cheap that just seems like a toy, but if it’d do the basics well then I’d be happy to take the advise of somebody pushing me in that direction.
Regarding software, it appears that if I ever wanted to upgrade to a full, paid for version then Traktor and Serato are way more affordable than VDJ, so I’d find it much easier to justify shelling out to upgrade to those. The two controllers I’ve looked at (MC2000 and MP2) both appear to run best with Serato, and from what I’ve read about it that sounds like it wouldn’t give me any problems as such.
Sorry, I’m waffling about something I know very little about.
