3/10.
Day 1: Pioneer DDJ-T1 and Traktor LE. DDJ-T1 is plastic, no kill switches, faders don’t trigger Traktor without a lot of faffing about, switching effects in and out causes signal drop-outs even on a reasonably well-spec’d machine and Traktor, like every other peice of bloatware out there, needs a powerful machine to run it on.
Day umpteen: Pioneer is still plastic, faders still don’t work properly and effects still cause problems even after upgrading to Traktor Pro (NI says it’s Pioneer’s fault, Pioneer says otherwise, mug punter in the middle as usual). So I will be getting something better soon – possibly Traktor Kontrol S4 as hopefully the native (no pun intended) hardware will work better with the software, although I quite fancy the look of the Reloop Jockey as well.
YaHozna.
