Best First Set-Up For a New DJ / Producer

What is the best set up for a new DJ or Producer? This is a common question that surfaces every music forum at least once or twice a month. A never ending post filled with peoples opinions and experiences with a wide variety of equipment both new and old. What works for some may not work for everyone. Some people need more functionality and some people need simplicity. The great battle between what is the best begins here.

As far as DJing goes, if you want to go down the Traktor route, your best controller for utilizing the loop recorder and basic remix decks for some freestyle sampling is indeed probably the Traktor Kontrol S4 . You could always add a Kontrol F1 later if you wanted to really get involved in samples and on-the-fly remixing. On the production side, FL Studio is a fine DAW, but don’t rush to buy Midi keyboards, launch pads and so on. You can experiment with the software without any hardware at all, and that’s what I recommend you do at first. What if you choose to go with Ableton Live software instead? This will affect your hardware requirements. Both FL Studio and Ableton Live have free trial versions, so this is where you can experiment before shelling out on gear .

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