Terry_42

Patreon is not a promoting tool. You promote on other sides to get people to give you money through Patreon. But usually you have to give people some value back and I do not see that with DJs.

OK first thing:
Read this:
https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2013/04/beginners-guide-to-pa-systems-part-1-basics/

Next thing:
If he wants this, then PLEASE go to some shop who rents PA equipment and let them set it up and the client pay for it.
Making 3 locations work is easy for someone fluent with PAs, but for you to make all the adjustments right, this is hell.
You will need a good PA mixer, speakers etc. for this and a guy who knows how to balance the locations.
So easiest is to rent this out, you show up, plug your S5 into the PA mixer and go with it.

I have to agree with Vintage, going the standalone way with the equipment you describe is a huge step backwards even from an Ergo, as the Ergo is a little underrated in my book. Mostly because it is such a “lightshow” controller it often gets the “toy” treatment, when in reality it is a really good and capable controller.

As for the controllers you mentioned: I agree there is not much value paying the price (and weight) of the RZX or ZX and I personally would not want one. I can see me play on one, if a club already has one installed, but prolly still prefer my controller.
I currently use the Denon MCX8000 and love it. I use it with Serato exclusively and only have a USB stick in case of laptop crash (which never happened yet).
I have played with the NS7-III, but as Vintage said: Rotating platters sound cool, but if you, unlike me, have never DJed with vinyl, it takes A LOT of getting used to and honestly I can do the same scratch moves on the MCX … to me it is more of an expensive gimmick. Maybe if you are going for scratch champoinships it might give you some edge on very very advanced stuff.
The RX and SX2 are both capable controllers, in your list I would see them slightly behind the MCX, just because there is more plastic in the build and the XLRs are not case mounted. So in theory the MCX should take even more beating without breaking down. If I had to choose between those, then I would go for the SX2 as I still prefer Serato and the SX2 leaves you with more choices (you can still use Rekordbox).

The S8: Excellent controller, however if you list it in that selection I assume you are not familiar in how it works as a whole and hence would NOT recommend it. The S8 is very very specialized and if you do not really want that it leaves you little options to do something else.

I used DJay Pro with 4GB no Problem at all. dJay is actually one of the lowest specs of RAM and CPU, however if you display the vinyl thingy it does stutter if your Grafix is not up to par, you can easily circumvent this by displaying waveform only (which makes more sense anyways).

Hey and welcome!

Before you go into software for producing, I would highly recommend DJing a bit and getting to know songs, song structure and music theory. There are excellent books on the topic.

I exclusively use SanDisk and Corsair only. Those 2 companies have never let me down.
Also I go for the “bigger” sticks, not the smallest form factor. The bigger sticks usually have faster performance and are easier to label, as I tend to have multiple sticks on a lanyard.

Look at the forum videos (pinned thread at the top of this forum). There should be a video where I perform a song using the TM8 pads with slicer, slicer loop and loop-roll.

Hehe this can be fun. Although I do not miss the days of carrying that heavy stuff, we do sometimes (every 2-3 months) a vinyl day at a friends, but every DJ only plays around 10 tracks, so the vinyls will fit a backpack… it is fun and relaxing.