Based on our record, Mixxx seems to be a lot more popular than Giada. While we know about 65 links to Mixxx, we've tracked only 1 mention of Giada. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Mixxx is excellent and has pretty wide hardware support. FYI the "limited" functionality of Rekordbox can be hardware unlocked with some Pioneer controllers. https://mixxx.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
There are quite a few DJs that use Ableton for DJing (or hybrid sets). Of course, Ableton wasn't made with DJing as its main function in mind but you totally can use it for that purpose and (with some tweaking) do everything and more that would be possible in a dedicated DJing software (like Traktor or Rekordbox or Mixxx). Source: 11 months ago
I’ve used Mixxx a little bit and have been surprised how capable it is. It’s an open source project and is free to download: https://mixxx.org/. Source: 11 months ago
Mixxx (you already mentioned this; it's certainly a great piece of free software to test the DJ waters with and works with a lot of gear). Source: 12 months ago
Alternatively, you can also use Mixxx with the S4 MK2. Mixxx is free. But instead of a Traktor control vinyl record, you'd use Serato timecode instead, as stated in the docs. Source: 12 months ago
I had to google "Vaporwave"(totally out of touch with EDM sub-genres here, so I'm going by the description offered on Wikipedia). Reads like a sampling synth' of some kind would be in order from here. I'd suggest Giada, because it's a BEAST. Though having said that, Giada's extreme tweakability can become somewhat overwhelming right off' the bat. It's well worth the effort to learn if you're using a sample-based... Source: over 1 year ago
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