Seriously - these new dj advancements are supposed to progress the art of djing.There were 1000s of djs that existed b4 the 1200s and 2 channel mixers came out .. Granted they did little to no mixing , played plastic records , 8 minute songs to the end - flipped record - repeat .. These guys smashed out dance floors big time for a long time..but we needed something better.. Enter 1200s and 2 channel mixers ... Once dis got their hands on these game changers they took the art to places that we never thought humans would or even could go....Then a new need popped up ... These records are to hard to travel with and are very user unfriendly.. They scratch, warp , loose sound quality ,were heavy , big ,and got to be really expensive .. but the 1200 was still that epic tool that never let you down .. So we went digital music and created a way to use the same 1200 u always had ..Music never stopped growing... so we then had a overflow of amazing music and a worldwide underground music scene that could not be stopped ... Boom ... Everything was perfect..i still have my 1st scratch live SL1 box that i have used for over 1000 gigs during the past 8 years..I never had even one problem with the thing still to this day.. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPEND????? All these new jack , blinky light memorized , no skill or general info having tool bags ruined shit.. If u can't get 1200 for you gig serato made it so you computer keyboard was now a FULLY FUNCTIONAL , FLAWLESS device that could very easily access every aspect of the program scratch live ... U had to just read the 30 page info book and dork out a bit to re wrap ur brain around doing..it was great to learn to do something you had been teaching yourself for decades on a completely different system , but still have the same raw outcome that you were hands on making happen live all along ... We didn't need anything else..these lazy , raisin brain wanna be djs flooded the whole thing and were to self entitled and "cool" to learn anything about anything really..So companys treated these new (i can't even call them djs) pumped up off too much epic bassline posers like baby..They made these giant stupid controllers with huge blinking buttons so these morons would go buy these pieces of shit for hundreds of dollars - cus- well - stupid people will buy anything thats big and blinky.. Then they go show off to their other raisin brain poser friends who in turn go buy a bigger blinky piece of shit .. Then 100s of piece of shit dj programs came out to keep up with the market that was booming out of control..- cus - well - for some reason stupid people have a lot of money to buy shit they don't even know how to use ..There is nothing that any giant stupid controller can do that i can't do faster smother and with 0% bug issues using my macbook key board..I don't give a shit what anyone says.. play . pitch , bend , cue points , sampler & all the FX is all your controller can do..I know this cus thats ALL THE PROGRAM DOES .. And here we are now..I always buy new dj shit when it comes out unless it has a sync button..Well - Cus - if u use a sync button for any reason AT ALL you a tool and should never consider yourself a dj well - cus your not .. U took out the only thing that demands respect due to its difficulty. Thats like paying someone to build you a house . then telling everyone you build houses or buying a plane ticket and telling people your a pilot .. Serato dj comes out and they tell me if i want to be able to move forward with rane/serato i must buy serato dj because they will no longer be focused on scratch live and the box to turntable setup. So i try all the top controllers and the Numark Ns7 was the best for me and my style of djing..Its actually the coolest dj anything I've ever owned straight up WHEN IT WORKS CORRECTLY ... Within a month it had bugged out at 3 different gigs and had bugged out countless times at home practicing.. So i looked up problems on all the other top companies controllers and thy are all a fkn mess.. So now i have 1600$ worth of dj equipment that i can't trust using live..They are slowly de bugging these things but back to my original point..We don't need any of this bullshit .. . Lets go back to focusing on scratch live so we can use turntables , cdjs , computer keyboard , or any controller they make . There is no point to serato dj at all..Its a stupid ploy to make more money possible for all these companies making shit devices.. And if u can't do that then throw a bone to all the real dis that trusted scratch live and your company by continuing to make scratch live so we can continue to use the one thing that never let us down -Technics 1200 turntables ..If you don't then all you did was lead us away from a perfect thing and then ditched us in a bubble of wackiness with no way out .. Oh no Traktor is making money so we should do what they are doing.. Great business plan . Cus thats what u are now .. A sell out company that caters to money .. Which makes you another company that is over exploiting a beautiful thing and assisting the wackness...Stop selling shit that sucks , Stop working with shit companys that don't give a fuck about us , stop catering to the people that did nothing for the movement that made your company possible.. We made your company possible . The djs , rock bands , hip hop artist , breakdancers , graffiti artists , people that dedicated their lives to not follow the weak , people that lived for something great , something powerful , something better then the bible ........SOMETHING REAL........ There might not be as much money in SOMETHING REAL but whats money in a world that sucks ass full of people that compromised happiness being controlled by lies & people with no souls ..