Terry_42

In the price range and quality class of the EVs you cannot go wrong. The EVs are really well defined even if you want to have a jazz band play through them and still can hold up to the punch of hard hitting Industrial.
In that price range the hardest competition is prolly the nearly same looking line of HK audios. But the difference mostly comes up to personal preference.
A relatively new player on the market is Line6 with their “digital speaker system”. It looks good in theory, however I had no chance to test those yet, so I would not recommend them at this time. But if you can get to test them, maybe they suit you.

The beatmix comes with a perfect mapping for the included VDJ LE.
VDJ Pro comes with a license to download the mappers and mappings.
So there really is no reason for anyone to do this, as you can do it yourself if you have a legal copy of the software.

Clearly says on the Pioneer webpage:
Traktor MIDI mapping available.
HID availably for VDJ Pro.

So if you want the tightness of HID it is currently only offered for VDJ.

Very good writeup.

I think it largely depends on your setting.
If I DJ a wedding I am not taking risks. I play what I know will work or what they want to hear and can go a full evening with only doing basic blend DJing and moderating the event.
Nearly the same goes for my “chillout” sessions on sundays or “after business” chills. I play deep house, italo house or balearic then (some latino or raggea might catch in) but keep it basically smooth and do not juggle much.

If I play a club or party/rave event, then I go all out and take major risks. I know I can recover if I clean the dancefloor, so I have no trouble doing fun stuff.

The thing however is, all of the above are not easy things to do. Just because you take more risks and do more complicated mixing techniques does not mean it is actually harder (when you mastered the technique itself). It is just different things you watch out for.

I do not have to pay anything to write “all rights reserved” under my soundcloud posting.
And I also do not have to pay anything for the law to protect me.
The only thing PROs do is collect the money for you, for a hefty price and possibly (in theory only) you may get some return even if you do not know where your music is used.

I think if you are interested you should buy one of the many books published on the subject.

Have you checked your CPU meter? Or maybe the harddisk has a problem?

If you want to go the Traktor route maybe think about the Reloop Jockey 3. As there is no inhouse mixer the Jockey has also stand alone mixing functionality that is a real plus in such environments. Also since the latest firmware upgrade by Reloop the jogs integration in Traktor is now finally really nice and the mapping is excellent.
Also you can later pimp the setup with additional controller units (like F1) at any time.

If you go creative commons anyone can use your track to make profit.
Example: I make a movie include your track, put it on the soundtrack, said soundtrack sells 2 million copies -> I will get the money, you will see no money whatsoever.

But then again just read the creative commons license and you will know more…. it is a long read but worthwhile.