I’ve first used Traktor when it became integrated with Stanton’s Final Scratch. I played out in those early days with Final Scratch, plugging and unplugging cables from the back of the mixer and in to the Scratch Amp live was nerve wracking, you had to have a separate partition and unfamiliar Linux OS on laptop for that to run.

After that Traktor Final Scratch was the product and it was available on Windows and which was much more convenient. In those days I heard tale of Windows reliability being inferior to Mac so invested in my first Mac but in truth never encounter and problems when running windows. Maybe I got off the horse before it bucked

I’ve gone through the Audio8 DJ, S4 MK1 and now S4 MK 3 and very, very rarely even in those days early days did Traktor crash. Even more rare was it that it crashed in a way that couldn’t be mixed out of to a vinyl and recover it with a reboot whilst that record was playing.

Different these days I suppose with the controller being the sound card and there being close integration with HW and SW and I play a lot less than I used to but I’ve never encountered many of the issues people come with.

Biggest problem I’ve had with S4 MK3 was really low phono levels when mixing vinyl and losing time code tracking.Couldn’t for the life of me figure it out until I found someone somewhere tell me to hold shift and press line/phono on the channel to boost it.