So who ordered a Z2?

Very happy indeed so far. Makes Traktor a much friendlier place - I'm definitely more of a hardware kind of person, without any mapping skills, so it's approach suits me. Not an all out battle mixer - the crossfader is surprisingly good, but the ups are set way too stiff. One day mine will have a full inno in the cross fader and the free moving variant of the mini-innos in the ups, but for now it's fine. It's not every answer to every problem, like a 62, but for the money it does a lot and does it well. I'd speculate that some of it's shortcomings will be improved upon with future software updates (I bought maschine when it came out with a few flaws that were all fixed with subsequent free updates). As predicted you can't use it's FX when in real vinyl mode (yet)... but when scratching with DVS, I believe it's the tightest and most like using real vinyl I've ever experienced. If you did buy one now and found that you couldn't stand it, you'd probably be able to sell it on with minimal loss. Let me know any specific things you want to know and I'll do my best to help.

For me, it's made some of traktor's abilities so much more accessible - I've used more of what traktor can do in the last few hours than I've done with the software in the previous two years. Software with dedicated hardware is definitely my preferred working method for both DJing and production though... and so far, I've found the Z2 more reliable than midi mappings with other controllers. Early days, but so far, so good.