Reply to A new - old guy. Sort of....

Hey DTT community ,
Name's Packrat, or Rat for short.
I'll nutshell this to make it quick. Started DJing in the late 90's w vinyl, quickly went digi/vinyl hybrid around 99. (Things were very...very different then...)
Did some events in the north east, for a few years, then everything kinda collapsed where I am originally from, and I walked away from DJing in '05.
Last year was asked to DJ at a regional burn, reluctantly said yes, and got sucked back in. There are soooo many new things since I stopped producing/spinning, and now that I've jumped back in with both feet, I am uh...spinning a little myself.

There was not this much stuff back in the day, I started using Acid, around version 2.0 produced a couple little ep's (only one of which remains alive in digi due to a hard drive crash).

So I started production again, primarily working in LMMS (yeah im an open source kinda guy, though i am not totally opposed to Closed Source applications). I have done several large parties since my return, and it's been going well, but I feel a bit stagnant, and want to push things a bit. However, with so many new options, products, and costs...i could really use some help/insight.

Current rig is this:
WinXP64 bit, running traktor pro 3.4 w/RMX300 as well as Mixxx.

nice to meet you all in advance.
Rat