serato vs traktor

im sure you guys have covered this a million times over, so apologies for bringing it up again if this is the case..

my fellow cohort in all things j.e.f. (our new hot bitches / dirty beats collaboration) and i went in to the rockshop today to investigate the purchase of serato. the guy we chatted to said he swapped to traktor about a year ago and would never look back.

am after a bit of advice from all you technical biggie types, proof, where are you..?

so.. what would you all advise?

many thanks in advance!

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i bow to your insightful knowledge mr theory. truly helpful advice.

If you want a focus system to essentially replace having to carry around vinyl or CDs, without being to worried about midi/ableton integration/effects/multi deck sync/ya de da... then Serato.

It is excellent, due to its simplicity.

If you want to get technical on the bidnez, be able to choose higher end soundcards, send midi clock, mix up to four decks at a time, etc, then Traktor.

I switched from Final Scratch to Serato for stability (in the old days), then from Serato to Virtual Vinyl because I was the Numark Rep, then was going to go back to Serato, but went to Traktor, because it would let me mix with three turntable timecode control (four actually).

No-days, I dont even bother plugging in the turntables, I just feed three 'decks' straight into a mixer, and use the forth as a delay/effects loop..

If none of that made sense, then Serato..

thanks, babe!

after posting this thread up i went on a bit of a mission online for all the info i could find. traktor def seems to be the way we wanna take. we decided bout an hour ago that we shall be investing in that rather than serato. as you said, so much more we can do! i am one for effects, acapellas and samples and would prefer to have 3 turntables over 2. also, being able to use it as a sound card is a bit of a bonus too.

and yes, i definitely understood what you said, i might be blonde(ish) but i has some brains.

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As an aside, I 'might' be looking at selling my version - I have a Fireface to use instead of the Audio8 now..

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orly?

if, hypothetically, this was the case, perhaps we should chat.. can you please flick me an email on casiocircus@gmail.com, or pm me?

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So I just watched your Traktor DJ video Proof.

Could you essentially do all that with Ableton?

Do you have any comments on Traktor vs. Ableton?

Am I correct in saying Serato can't beatmatch for you? The primary reason for me going digital is to offload as as much as I can to the computer to keep myself interested.

If I want to beatmatch I'll use records.

Traktor -

1. You can see all four decks at the same time
2. Loop operations work how you want them to for DJing
3. Playlist/Browser option leaves Ableton for dead
4. Can still have timecode control for the occasional cut

Considered Ableton many a time to DJ, but just dont like the workflow I would have to adapt..

If I wanted to have a a MIDI pad controller hooked up to some drums or whatnot could I do this through Traktor?

What about a MIDI synth?

Or would You rewire into Ableton in this situation to get the best of both worlds?

I don't really know much at all about this. The above statement might be impossible / implausible / laughable??

I have a couple of questions about Traktor:

1) What is the latency like compared to spinning normal vinyl? Does the speed of your laptop make a difference? Mine is a 1.66 core duo, Dell 1525, 2 gig ram, is that fast enough?

2) Can I use a 2 channel mixer with Traktor and switch between standard CDs and the Traktor CD? I ask because one of the channels will need to be set to Phono, and i'm not sure if that will work with a digital input...?

I'm pretty sure I will go for Traktor Duo. I don't really need 4 decks as I spin house/tech/prog. Appreciate your thoughts guys