Pro's & Con's

Pro’s

• Price: a Reloop Digital Jockey costs around € 320 and comes with Traktor included. A CD-DJ will have for that same amount of money just one midrange CD-player. And at € 1,30 for an MP3-download it’s cheaper than any other format out there.
• I currently have three days of music indexed in Traktor, that’s the equivalent of roughly 60 CD’s.
• I can indicate cool parts, set loops, create playlists ... all when mixing live or in advance.
• If your power fails, thanks to its battery the notebook will still keep working, allowing me to prepare a come-back as if the black-out was on purpose ...
• Unlike CD’s or Vinyl Records, MP3-files stored on a well maintained hard-drive don’t get scratches by being played to often. They will always sound brand new.
• If a in internet connection is at hand, I can update my musical collection on the spot.

Con's

• Computers do crash, but with proper system maintenance and weekly back-ups chances are slim.
• Computers have latency, but using external hardware (like Reloop’s Digital Jockey) to generate the sound eliminates the computer’s latency.
• Using a computer to DJ is not actually DJ’ing? The Vinyl people said that same thing about CD’s years ago ...