I realize that it's much simpler, but I find that I have no real need to do it. It's still very easy to mix well and most of my tracks are automatically gridded well enough for my liking and needs. I really only find the sync buttons handy for fine tuning the tempo as the pitch sliders often jump too far between increments.
I fully understand what is being said, that the tracks will stay in sync if they are gridded the right way, but to me there's something I do enjoy in having manual control over the tempo of the tracks in the mix and that if I wanted to mix tracks with the computer keeping them in sync, I prefer to use Ableton simply because there are more possibilities.
I'm not saying that you guys are wrong, that's just my opinion and how I feel about it.
Back to the topic though, I was actually looking at getting a Total Control, but my brother ended up giving me his BCD2000 which works well enough for me. (Although I did have a hell of a time configuring it to work with Traktor.) They look more pleasing than the BCD and from what I can tell work much the same if not better.

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Last edited by Teezdalien on Dec-07-2008 at 09:12