Monday, June 29, 2009

The Mac DJ revisited

After working with my mac DJ set up for almost two years I've settled into a working routine and feel comfortable (finally) with my setup. It's actually quite different than the pictures posted over a year ago (I will post pics of my new setup soon).

I purchased a wheeled and handled (imagine a suitcase) CD case and converted it to my iMac DJ case. My laptop case also got the same type treatment. I purchased the upgrade to NI Traktor Pro and have a few pros and cons regarding that upgrade. I've also been using another piece of German software for the Mac DJ simply called Djay by Algoriddim software. This program design is kinda the opposite of Traktor in it's use of a simple as opposed to Traktor's "deep" GUI. Djay relies on iTunes and works nicely with it. The price is also part of the contrast with Native Instruments. $50 as opposed to $300 plus.

When I post the pictures of my redesigned setup I will cover my likes and dislikes of both softwares.