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djrenots, post: 11885, member: 263 wrote: The S4 has a new mapping making the jog wheels into cool sound effects wheels but the Denon has video capabilities as well. Go to DJtt to check out Ian’s video on the S4.

I was looking at those mappings last night, definitely look very cool. As I’m just a beginner I don’t think the video capabilities of the denon are too big of a deal, the same can be said of the booth outs as I’ll just be using the controller to learn on then expanding to CDJ’s + mixer as well. I really like the metal construction of the denon though. The plastic build is really the only drawback of the s4 for me. I think I’m going to wait for NAMM and see if anything exciting is announced and if not I’ll probably just go with the s4.

@DJ Hessler I agree I definitely need to decide which software first, Serato just don’t make it easy since you can’t use their software without the hardware. At least traktor the software is fully operational on its own. I’m leaning towards traktor on moral grounds because it just kind of pisses me off that you can’t really try Serato before you buy unless you know someone using it and can use theirs.

@VinnyBlanc yeah i had heard you lost the resolution of the jogs, the search strip becomes a filter and the effects are crippled because there just isn’t enough corresponding hardware buttons like on the S4. I’d deifnitely be going with the S4 if I went with Traktor.

hmmm i guess this almost belongs in the software section for some Serato vs Traktor comparisons….I think I’ll probably end up with traktor just because it seems to be able to do more and though i won’t need most of it for a good while it’ll be handy down the track. If it was a matter of purely hardware i think i’d definitely go the NS6 but the S4 is winning the software front since i can actually play with it and it’s so tightly integrated with Traktor.