There’s a lot of other stupid counterintuitive stuff in the software. Glad I paid 50% off because I hate it. I can see running loops in it to create new loops to play somewhere else (loop recorder), and I hope I’ll get more out of it down the road, because I know people like it, but it’s lack of clarity, lack of saving and export sound functions, and this stupid naming issue just make me hate the software from the gate.

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Traktor Pro beats serato hands down in track and inventory control…. gives much quicker editing of your set list manipulation and building….Serato sometimes can be a bit cumbersum .. if scratching and “effect” DJing is your thing serato rocks …real world wedding gig
guys (money makers) Traktor Pro is the way to go…

Pitch-fader should be a con – manually turning record by hand FTW!

And props to Dystopic – I 100% agree! I’ve had too many arguments with djs who are sure that the sync button is the end of djing. Yeah, becasue quantisation killed music production, right? It just becomes about doing something else that sounds awesome. I’ve heard djs who think that beatmatching at all isn’t ‘real’ djing (Har Mar Superstar) and that all records should be played at teh correct speed. Last night for the first time I saw a guy djing with Ableton (using an APC40) and his set was bangin’! Gonna give that a go myself, but all songs are auto-synced; so what, he sounded amazing. I’ve heard djs who just quickly cross-fade between any two players, but drop tune after tune and so can play anywhere on anything so long as they have their tracks. A dj is there to play awesome music and get a party jumping (or get a great chill-out mood – play great sounds that are scenery-appropriate), so in my mind the only ‘bad’ dj is someone who insists on playing whatever THEY want regardless of what else is going on (like killing the dancefloor mood by following some full-on DnB with minimalist downbeat dubstep, or something equally shit). And you can always tell a ‘good’ dj by how people love listening to their music, regardless of how good their technical skills are. And like Dystopic said; by relegating to a robot those tasks that can be done optimally by a robot allows the human to concentrate on all the awesome things only humans can do!

I have used it for four years and it has never crashed. I’m not sure your computer is the reason why it crashes?!