For the traktor users..... is beatmasher a cheap version of what a lemur does essentially?
Don't must djs who use cdjs at club use them in combination with laptop/software anyways?
And the reason im interested in cdjs is the incredible durability and the fact that its a standard now.
If I go to a club with my midi controller than I gotta set up and it might even not be possible to cue in to the last song of the last persons set.
it is in NO way a standard. MANY places i go to the djs still rock vinyl, and most of them fuck around with midi controllers etc, some even whippin out the occasional bass guitar.
essentially, CDJs eliminate the
need for a laptop.
in fact ive only ever seen software in conjunction with CDJs once in my life.
to be honest, they are over-hyped, over-rated, and over-priced.
if you wanna pay out an extra few hundred for something that you'll need more space for, more shit to carry, etc, then be my guest.
ill still be in the dark, blunt smoke filled basement rockin my laptop and traktor pro with my lil bcd3000 and a usb stick full of music.
at the end of the day, its up to you-
you can lug about the mixer, the cd decks, and all the cds,
OR
you can lug about a laptop, a midi mixer/controller, and a portable hardrive full of so much music that if you had it in physical form you'd need a flatbed truck to transport.
i choose the latter, evidently.
PS - yes, beatmasher is basically a cheap version. The FX and tweaking capabilities of traktor pro FAR outweigh what certain hardware has built in.