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>>46706018
Some other things:
You might end up needing to switch to thumb doing both 1 and 3 with your index on 2 for more scratch heavy bits vs just remaining in 1048 position.
Luckily, this is literally just a minor wrist turn away, so it's easy to swap back and forth.

IIDX is a game where you'll end up needing to move your hand a bunch no matter what. No one high-level is 1048 all the time, even if it is generally their main style.
Eventually, you'll figure out things/be better prepared to learn other things once you have the muscle memory for the button positions gained just from playing -- I can swap to 1048 with minor difficulty despite my main style being old-DOLCE style where ring/index/thumb=1/2/3.
It's easier to pinky-scratch with this vs 1048, while 1048 makes wrist scratching trivial.

Buy/build a controller if you want to get into IIDX despite not having regular access to cab. Regular play is a must to learn it.
Naturally, if you get serious about IIDX and aren't broke, get the Phoenixwan. Replace the default switches from the far too light 15g one; 50g is arcade standard.
Replacing them yourself is super easy if you forget to change it, decide to change it later, or they just wear out (they're also like $3 each if you do need to replace them). The FPS is also a good (cheaper) controller, with caveats (smaller turntable, slightly different spacing).

An even cheaper option might be importing the PS2 games+PS2 controller with a proxy (or shit, importing a used FPS from Japan).
The yen is fucking terrible right now. Everything is like 2/3rds the price it should be for a foreign buyer, so you might save a bunch despite shipping costs.

If you're absolutely dead broke, 9 arcade buttons in a shoebox with a Pi Pico using some generic keyboard/joystick firmware will do for now (GP2040CE, QMK, etc, etc) -- turntable up/down vertically next to each other, then 1-7.
The holes for 1/3/5/7 and 2/4/6 are like 12mm apart with 30mm buttons and the distance between the two rows is like 25mm, pic related.
The axis-aligned horizontal spacing from 1 to the turntable buttons is like 113mm or so and they should be lined up around the height where 2 is.
Total cost: like, $40 if you make bad finanical decisions/buy Sanwa OBSF buttons, and it could probably be done for $20 with cheapo Amazon EG STARTS buttons.
I did this when I was juuuust starting out; it really doesn't matter at your level that much that scratching using this is super inaccurate, but it will become something to worry about after you hit like 6/7s.