I used the S8 for the first time in a club last night, was DJing for 5 hours and it never missed a beat, was a risk taking it and not my CDJs but it performed brilliantly!

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Originally posted by Zak McKracken so its actually a good solution then? is it necesarry to prepare anything or can you just insert any random harddrive with WAVs into your computer and fire the music in traktor with the S8 on the fly? I like a instant solution, currently nothing has yet replaced vinyl for me. also i dont want to touch the laptop at all, however to have the screen doenst bother me. Will the S8 help in that? are there serato options?

The more I use it, the more I like it, the more functional I find it, I do think that its a very good solution.
There is no need to prepare your music in advance, Traktor will analyse tracks as they are loaded into it so yes, you can plug a random harddrive into a computer and play them instantly.

I will say, I still find browsing for tracks is easier on the laptop, when using the S8 to browse, you select a folder, load a track then go back to the directory to choose your next track, the S8 always goes back to first folder in alphabetical order, so then you have to scroll through the whole music directory from A to Z where as on the laptop, you don't.
that really needs sorting out by Native Instruments and then you could truly use the S8 without ever having to look at the laptop.

The S8 is purely designed for Traktor, so there is no serato option however Pioneer are doing various controllers based on serato and now of course their own DJ software, RekordBox DJ...


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A small alteration in my set up...



Just until I get some brackets for the CDJ 2000s

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Originally posted by DJ Sarah H The more I use it, the more I like it, the more functional I find it, I do think that its a very good solution. There is no need to prepare your music in advance, Traktor will analyse tracks as they are loaded into it so yes, you can plug a random harddrive into a computer and play them instantly. I will say, I still find browsing for tracks is easier on the laptop, when using the S8 to browse, you select a folder, load a track then go back to the directory to choose your next track, the S8 always goes back to first folder in alphabetical order, so then you have to scroll through the whole music directory from A to Z where as on the laptop, you don't. that really needs sorting out by Native Instruments and then you could truly use the S8 without ever having to look at the laptop. The S8 is purely designed for Traktor, so there is no serato option however Pioneer are doing various controllers based on serato and now of course their own DJ software, RekordBox DJ... - - - - - - - A small alteration in my set up... Just until I get some brackets for the CDJ 2000s

I've seen that table before...is that IKEA? I need me one of those to replace a stand (more permanent house install)

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY I've seen that table before...is that IKEA? I need me one of those to replace a stand (more permanent house install)

Its a Sefour X30 DJ Console



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