Reply to My new DJ set-up

Hi,

this is my first post on this amazing community !

I'm currently using my M-Audio Xponent with Torq. The Xponent has recently found a new reletionship with beer and other liquids. It's therefore not working well. The pitch sliders in the software is not following the movements on the hardware. If I put them in +/- 0% they start to live there own lives and goes all the way up. Very annoying.

However, I really need a new set-up for practice and for some gigs. After hanging out on DJ TechTools, I've realized that Traktor is the way to go for me. Especially with the new Remix Decks that seems very cool. I also want to learn some scratching and a DVS is really attractive to me.

I started sketching on a new set-up. Check the first attachment!
overview.jpg

As you can see, I would like to build a custom controller, due to the narrow mixer (Ecler Nuo 2.0), to get my hands of the computer.

My idea is to build something like this:
ownmidicontroller.jpg

[EDIT]: Oh, I forgot that there is supposed to be one rotary encoder on top of both FXs to change the effect in Traktor.

What do you guys believe in general? Does this seem to be a good set-up to work with and to improve my DJ-skills?

I looked around for a i/o usb board to base my controller on. The Hale UMC32 seems easy to work with. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts about which board I should use? I really like the idea of not having to use a "midiconverter"software. I guess the UMC32 sends a midisignal directly to Traktor, is that right? And I assume the UMC32 can handle all the rotary encoders, potentiometers and buttons

It's very nice to be new here. I hope you don't mind potential misspellings and so on

Thanks!

//Niklas