Traktor Scratch Pro 50% Price Drop

http://www.native-instruments.com/

50% off Traktor Scratch Pro.

Is this a good way to get into vinyl controlled mp3s at a lower cost than Serato? Anyone played about with Traktor Scratch who can compare it to Serato?

50% until the end of the year apparently... very tempted....

I imagine its good but haven't tried it myself. I wonder why the discount?

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for all you use serato for, serato is mostly better... the colour coded display and layout is much more user friendly than traktors... but the SSL pitch alogorithm SUCKS (weird because seratos pitch and time plugin seems to be quite good an...d popular?). with traktor i can rock up to soundpond with a laptop and 2 usb cables and play my whole set off the cdjs without touching the mixer audio routing. also i can run 4 decks, combining what i just said with vinyl control. also i can do ITB mixing, using a midi controller that runs the mixer functions. also i can have tempo syncing if i want to use it, which makes hectic 4 deck mixing possible. maximum flexibility, incredible portability. craig - it's on the main NI page.

The sad thing is i'm considering it since i'm just about lay $800 down for an SL3 where i could lay down $400 for Traktor scratch pro which i can also use as a proper production soundcard..

I've never been a fan of their user interface though. Decisions... Decisions...

Purchased

Got mine last night, used it on Soundpond today. Pretty good so far, recorded with the 4th input while rocking 3 decks and was solid as.

Only thing that i'm not liking is there's no "Smart crates" like serato. It would automatically sort my sub genres according to the comments in the ID3 tags.

Have to do it by hand AFAIK unless I want to use iTunes... No thanks.

where did you guys buy from and how much???

four vinyl decks at the same time?

seems like a much cheaper option for me ...

 (I was considering cdj's but would need a 4 channel mixer on top of the price of 2 cdjs)

any regrets at all or are you guys fairly happy with the program?

I bought it on the native website. They kindly took my cash an thn refunded it due to them being out of stock to send here. Was approx 350aus. Hit up Derringers, they got some stock in on sat @ $399. So worth the cash for how cheap it is!

Can't do 4 vinyl decks unless you have 2 phono preamps. Can do 2 vinyl decks and 2 CDJ's or midi controlled decks at a time though (4 total).

It has taken me 2 weeks to get used and setup my music the way i like it, but it is awesome!

Bought mine from StoreDJ as they offered a 5yr extended warranty on top of the 1yr standard warranty on the hardware for no extra cost! $399

They've sold out and not getting anymore in as far as i know though.

Definitely worth it if you want to delve into a digital system.

Thanks for the tip Jared - I scored the last one from the Derringers in the city, not sure if Forrestville have any left.

they dont went in with the cash today 

so im ending up with rohan's copy... just gotta catch up with him, sooner than later!


how is everyone finding tsp?

Khem, Jared, enjoying things?

i need an extra bench or stand to put my laptop on, havent even hooked it up yet

Yeah its sick, loving it. Esp for old skool tracks ive had for years and never mixed. Haven't really gotten deep into the program, just straight up mixing. Pretty impressed with how responsive it is, not sure how it compares to Serato. Had issues when i upgraded the software on my 64bit lappy so just ran with the original version, stable as.

tsp 2 out april 1..


 feel a bit   but then had a look and dont really think i would use any of the extra features really.