5/3/2023 0 Comments Serato vs traktor vs rekordbox![]() ![]() The team would do well to hire a UX consultant to make it look and feel a little more polished. The UI is more cluttered than I’d like, but everything is there and customizable. Virtual DJ definitely has a feel - like it caters more toward working DJs. These two programs didn't stray from the Traktor model by that much, and It would be no chore to use either of them. I spent some time with Virtual DJ and Mixxx. I imagined it like how Android people feel when they use an iPhone (I was one of those people once). My strongest sense is that if you’re more of an intuitive, less nerdy DJ, Serato clicks better. There weren’t too many preferences to change either. Since I’m FS first, this wasn’t ideal.įor me, all of the above are bread and butter. Serato encourages you to use crates more than your filesystem organization. When you would disable sync, it would revert a deck to its original BPM. Is this a bug? All I want to do is match tempos but not actually sync the two songs. Seriously - you do not need to prepare your tracks in Traktor, but now I understand why people take time to do it in Serato. I mean it's still 75% effective, so it's not crap - but I was surprised how many misses it had upon first load. Obv waveform is important for setting cue points, but that's not the point here.īPM Detection is poor. I'd argue that track overview is more important than running waveform displays 99% of the time. Yes you can make the scrolling waveform large enough to show 20 bars on the screen at once, but that's a different purpose. how much time has elapsed and left (visually), and getting a great sense of how much rhythmic content there is in any period of a song. I never realized how much I rely on the track overview to understand in detail how the song is progressing. The track overview graphic is tiny, so tiny you can't use it. The EQs don't sound great, I don't even think they are full kill. Compare it to thorough pro-level traktor docs, and if you are an RTFM person (like me), you'll be disappointed. More importantly I want to see the decks and the controller at once glance - no look down, look up, look down motions.ĭocumentation is hard to access - not only is there no latest PDF, or even a local copy of the documentation - but with the web based docs, it's not easy to read straight through. There's a truth to what the application is using as a setting, and it's not always reflected on the controller itself. No mixer on screen - What, why? When I'm playing I don't want to have to look down at the controller to know what the settings are. (it’s possible that Serato does these things, and I didn't dig in long enough to figure it out) What don't I like? *long sigh* Although I have no problem mixing music and recording it, there are a lot of items that annoy me because Traktor does them so well. It doesn't affect my DJing because I use the jogs for nudging and scrubbing, but if I were scratching this would be a big difference. There's something about the responsiveness with the jog wheels that's even better than my other MIDI controllers connected to Traktor. It's really fast on an older computer! I put it on a 4th Gen, 4 core Intel running Windows 10, and I never felt like I needed more CPU or RAM. I spent a few honest days using Serato, and here are my take-aways. I’d recommend this combination in a second. It’s small and light, sounds good, and importantly feels great. Really, the SB3+traktor (+Kontrol X1) is a great combination. Before I even started with other software I connected the SB3 to Traktor and enjoyed hours of productive spinning. I purchased a Serato controller, and the SB3 looked the best. I didn’t want to put Rekordbox on the list because the wisdom floating around was to use Rekordbox only if you are committed to the Pioneer ecosystem, which I don’t want to be locked into. (DVS and obviously vinyl before that) When I embarked on this experiment, I targeted Serato, VirtualDJ, and Mixxx as the applications I wanted to learn about. Second, I DJ for myself and have no motivation to play in a club anymore. No judgment, but it really makes a difference, and ideas about this are sprinkled through this post. My perspective veers away from typical DJ ideas: I have a performance and theory musical background, I produced before I DJd, I have audio engineering background as well with practical experience building studios and running live sound.Ĭompared to other instruments, I’d say more than half of the DJs out there approach music more intuitively and less technically (knowing music & theory). I’ve rewritten this post a few times and I’m going to keep it more accessible and usable rather than a recap of my process.
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