DJ Vintage wrote:As an afterthought, if I look at the list, I see mainly low end (modular) controllers, the S8 being the high end exception and the two Akai's kind of floating in the middle.
I am seriously confused by people wanting to buy the S8 which is designed bottom up, top down and side to side to be 100% Traktor compatible and then turn to Cross as their software platform. Imho there are plenty of other controller options that would fit the bill better.
And I personally feel it would be a good plan to make sure you support the main controllers from the main brands.
Based on the current "compatible controllers" list:
Pioneer: DDJ-SZ, DDJ-SX2, XDJ-1000
Denon: SC3900 (for those spinning platter enthusiasts), MC6000 mk2
Numark: iDJ Pro, NDX-500, NV
Reloop: Beatmix-series, Terminal Mix 8
Just my two cents, as usual
Just To clear the S8 Question up, I bought The S8 Because its quite simply the best layed out controller, with addition of faders and extra encoders, you wont get on its competitors.
But really, Why would you come to this assumption about the S8,I highly doubt that NI/Traktor would only want to have the controller for their software only and loose most of the market, after all almost every other DJ controllers is universal, NI would not want to loose out on selling controllers because of that silly point, and as they have just proved they have just fetched out a beta 2.7.5 that also updates the s8 driver for better third part software integration, now the Sample/remix deck encoders and faders and more are sending MIDI, so that really speaks for itself.
By the way Virtual DJ have just Brought out a mapping for the Numark NV serato controller and the screens double up for virtual DJ also, although they look the same as in serato, they still work. the S8 is more advanced internally so it maybe it could be possible to actually have the screens display Cross DJ.
I would have no problem mapping all the controls on the S8 myself, but the LED I have no Understanding of the coding involved despite trying to learn
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However the screens have to be a bonus if would work, even without the screens this controller whoops the DDJSX and all below, I played my hunch and got mine knowing that with updates would come full third party MIDI control, and it just has. and if it did not then I would be stuck using traktor, no bad thing, apart from it being over cluttered and a few controls are not so easy switching too on the fly when mixing, alas my heart is with Cross, so why not? have the s8 mapped just like all other controllers, why exclude it on what grounds, its a no brainer for me and I have used the majority of the big controllers DDJSX and many others below that, but I still found a few lacking things, extra control for Cross DJ Rolling frequency/sample loops brace and a few other things, it all helps and the S8 does have this extra control.
Just My view on this.
