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New DJ Setup – Traktor Kontrol S4
This week I purchased the Traktor Kontrol S4 – a usb controller perfectly designed for the Traktor Pro software, and after using it briefly this week, I’m very much impressed with it.
Before I was using Denon DNS1200 cd players to control the software via MIDI, which worked very well but after the the announcement of Traktor Pro 2, there were some things that just weren’t possible to do or far more difficult to do – mainly the sample decks and using 4 decks to make far more interesting and dynamic mixes.
The Kontrol S4 now combines all the controls needed for the Pro software, not to mention the use of the internal mixer and ability to record mixes in the software itself – without the need of additional sound card or cables and software.
My DNS-1200 CD players, which have been great ever since I first bought them, will now be sold on ebay, so if you’re interested in buying them off me, let me know! They’ll soon be posted on here once I post them on ebay.
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Props on the new setup. I was listening to your mixes and it definitely sounded like you were on some old-school CDJs. I’d love to hear a dope house mix done on the S4!
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Thanks for the comment. The S4 feels great but I haven’t spent much time on it yet. I was using CDJ’s before but I feel controllers like the S4 is definitely the way forward now. Hopefully I’ll get a new mix up soon.