Interesting D2 Review

He points out some limitations and issues one should consider before dropping a lot of money.

 

Workflow is the key to any good controller, and as the video states it's not going to work for everybody, least of all the guys like me who have not fully embraced Remix Decks.
I'll probably still get one to add to my collection but I think it'll be hard for me to let go of my pair of X1mk2 because I'm one of those guys that uses hot cues and loops, and I need to have access to at least Play, Cue, 4 hot-cues/preset loops and bend/nudge control for at least 3 decks at once.

The way I'll do it is to set up the following as my console layout:
CDJ2000, D2, Mixer, X1mk2 (then MacBook)
It'll give me a pair of screens to choose songs when I'm furtherest away from the laptop, and I'll have the rocking most compact ideal solution without a screen when I'm essentially in front of the laptop and the ability to control all 4 decks at once.

Mind you, it'll be a few weeks till I can get my hands on one, besides the fact that I'm from Australia and we're always a few weeks behind, I'm actually on holidays till the first week of June

It was great timing for the holiday though, I got to see Pete Tong on Friday night at Sound Nightclub in LA, he was rocking an S8 and seemed to work his way around all 4 decks, with only the occasional Remix Deck.