Reply to At a personal crossroads.

About 10 months ago I decided to go with a "best of all worlds" solution to get back into DJing, grabbing a Kontrol S2. My intentions for it was to get back into the hip-hop & r&b scene (at that time in the DC area) and hit up some clubs and what not. This was not the most ideal choice, since I grew up playng on SL1200s.

Since that time I moved back to NY state (work in the city for a big media conglomerate of all places) and I have spent less and less time practicing. Also as a new home owner my weekend time is further diminished. At the rate I am going I don't believe I will realize my dream of hitting a club before the end of the year.

I enjoy using TP2 (although 2.5 brought on some CPU issues) but I have not been as happy with my production sets. I have published a few mix tapes http://www.mixcloud.com/ParisCreative/ and a scratch sample http://http://soundcloud.com/pariscreative that I am only basically satisfied with. Maybe it was perception but I always though that at my prime (late 80s to mid 90s) my sets were much tighter, but since I have few tapes from that time it's hard to judge.

At this point I am wondering if I would find more pleasure with something like Ableton. While I could keep my S2 and do some scratching, juggling, etc. to layer in, I am finding my mixes to be kinda flat with my current use. Maybe I am just being over critical, but I have thrown so many mixes out because of a big error, and I had sworn not to "splice" mixes together. Now I am believeing of going a full 180 and doing something like Ableton.

Has anyone been in a similar position as I am? Any thoughts, critiques, criticisms you would like to share?