Reply to DJ Set Up Advice (This should be interesting)

I have a question for you Digital DJ pros out there. I'm not too familiar with midi mapping and my first question is...does anybody have a good tutorial or link on how to do it properly if I were to use Traktor?

My second question is more gear related. I plan to buy the Stanton SCS3 System and Traktor, but I'm pretty sure I won't be a big fan of the touch strips on the scs3m mixer so can any of you throw some knowledge my way in terms of a suitable replacement for that piece of kit? The way I want to run things is to use the two scs3d decks as normal decks and have the scs3m mixer as some sort of effects pad and then have a midi controller mixer or real mixer at the heart of it so I get to twist some knobs. So far I have an Apple Macbook Pro and the Traktor Pro software and I'm figuring out what gear to put together to make it work. So would this set up work? 2 x Scs3d decks + 1x Scs3m Effects/Mixer + External Mixer/Midi Mixer.

One final thing, what would you add to that set up to really make it fun yet retain its portability?

Fire away. You guys are the shit.

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-Discotrick