traktors pretty good but yeah you do need a controller, theres no feel or skill using a mouse, and tbh, for beat matching no real skill at all anyway.

pm me for a link to get it free

i once got my boxers ripped off by a wegdy :hopeless:

haha, soon i reckon we’ll finally meet each other! i vaguely remember speaking to you on the 3rd, i was really really mashed! i sound like a twat accordin to me mates, good job voiceboxes arent everythin 😉

Traktor is ok i suppose it all depends on how you want to control your mp3s? do you want to be using a control surface that resembles near enough real mixing? If so you might want to look into serato scratch live or tarktor. With these programs you can use your existing decks whether they be cd or vinyl to control mp3s. This works by using special control records and cds. Your mixer is then plugged into a special interface which plugs into your computer. So anything you do to the record on the platter will automatically happen to the mp3 that your computer is playing.
Then there is ableton which Is my personal favourite as it is much more unconventional and will probably be very different than anything you have ever done before unless you have ever tried your hand at producing. Ableton is basically like a very very advanced itunes or something. you have a screen in which you can choose to set up as many channels as you like in each channel you will load a selection of mp3s. You can load in as many different mp3s as you like to each channel but you cant fade between mp3s in the same channel that’s why you add lots of different channels, I don’t use anymore than 5. Before playing you can load in all the songs that you might be likely to play. You can then roughly arrange them in the channels and colour coordinate them so you know where your 89 acid house selection is. The difference between mixing on decks and ableton is that you do all your beat matching before hand. You have to go through your mp3 selection and add a warp points every time there is a beat. This means that ableton will sync all of your tracks together perfectly when you are playing and they will all stick to a set tempo. This leaves you free to get really creative with your mixing by adding lots of different effects, cutting and adding loops and with abelton you can even wack in new beats on the spot. It really is a completely new way of mixing. Ableton can auto warp tracks but some times it gets it a bit wrong.
The nuo 4 is a sicccccc mixer! Unfortunately for something like ableton it wont really give you enough control you need loads of buttons and knobs. You should check out some you tube demos. If your computer is slow I would recommend ableton live 5 it runs on my old ibook quite nicely and personally its my favourite version. Hope this helps a bit.

yeah 7 rapes processor tbh i dont really think there are many laptops out good enough yet to run it to its full effect. i run 6 on a 2.3 core 2 imac with 4gb of ram and it runs pretty smoothly but 7 brings a lot of advances over 6 and i’m not sure how it would cope.

At some piont I’m definitely going to look into mp3/ digital mixing, even if it’s just to add samples over tunes I’m mixing. I’m often adding basslines to tunes in my head!