serato or traktor?
serato or traktor? Posted on: 12.10.2012 by Alene Kalush serato or traktor? | |
| Debra Lagrua 12.10.2012 | I love them both....for their own uses ... |
| Lina Rawie 12.10.2012 | I owned Torq for a few months, then Serato for a few years, then a few months ago I switched to Traktor. What I liked about Serato is that it was rock solid. What it did, it did well. I had no issues with any of its features and it ran perfectly on my fairly weak spec Windows laptop. Negatives - No FLAC support (at the time - it has it now), and when scratching, it wasn't great at handling very slow record movements. Traktor offers more potential and has more features, but I've found a few bugs in the software and reporting them to Native Instruments has been a painful process. I find that it's nowhere near as good as Serato at automatically analysing the BPM of tracks and the grid is usually way off - bear in mind that I'm not playing EDM though (Traktor seems fine with music where there's a very steady kick thumping away like a heartbeat). When key lock is off, I believe it performs better than Serato for scratching. When key lock is on, it's worse. Certain actions will hammer the resources of my computer, which is a high end machine with a Core i7 3770K, 16GB of RAM, SSD etc. Overall, for my needs, I have to give the nod to Serato. I've had buyer's remorse about Traktor since the day I bought it and I still have it now. Perhaps that was made worse by the fact that Traktor 2.5 came out shortly after I bought it - which is a major upgrade - and that bugs need to be ironed out, but still, I can only comment based on my experience. I'm currently saving for a Rane 62 and I will dump Traktor when I get that, but software updates may make Traktor much better (or Serato worse!), so my opinion is certainly not set in stone. |
| Margie Pavell 12.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
hopefully loverocket has them all out of his system... |
| Romelia Stankard 12.10.2012 | I thought for sure this was going to be a loverocket thread |
| Margie Pavell 12.10.2012 | come on man...you know better than to make a thread/poll like this... |
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