I prefree the old ones and twos. the manually approach. but then again i would always be up to learn ableton.
funnly enuff i seen dave the drummer up in dublin back in jan. he was meant to do a liveset. he started with turntables and then started to move on to the live equip. after a short while he just pulled down the laptop moniter and went back to the turntables and absolutly belted out...
I suppose a dj r producer just use what there comfortable with. . records are still be used even do tapes came then cds,mp3s and so on.