A question for CDJ/Traktor users.

I'm really not trying to start a flame war or be a troll but I had a legit question for those of you who use CDJs with Traktor. (A friend mentioned he might buy used CDJs and use them with Traktor.)

Why not just use the software built into CDJs to do everything?

If you like Traktor more, then why use CDJs, since at that point they are just expensive controllers?

Is it because they are the club standard? (At least that I've seen.) But when you are at a club, are you still bringing your laptop to use their CDJs?

Is it the external screens so you are not looking at the laptop? (Which is why I liked my S5 when I used it.)

Or is there is there some extra benefit using the two together?

 

I had my two cdj2000's before i got into Traktor, when I bought my S8, i also used my CDJ's with the traktor software... so i had 4 decks... yes i know the S8 has 4 decks but putting deck 3 and 4 on the cdj's meant more control over them for me... just preferred to work that way.
Would I do it the other way round, buy cdjs after getting traktor and the S8? No, the S8 does everything the cdjs can do except of course play cd's and considering how all music is available in digital now... If you have the money to buy CDJ's, why not spend the money on a decent controller?

 

my biggest Pioneer reason is big jogwheels.
my biggest Laptop reason is not having to maintain USB sticks.
my biggest Traktor reason is not having to build playlists, and use OS folders instead.


I wrote some blog posts about my setup.
why DDJ-1000:
https://github.com/pestrela/music/b...ADME.md#why-is-ddj-1000-my-hardware-of-choice

why traktor:
https://github.com/pestrela/music/blob/master/traktor/README.md#Traktor-software