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Serato Scratch Live

DJ Software from Serato belonging to the Scratch Live series

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Published on 08/21/07 at 05:45
Value For Money : Excellent
I bought it in late 2006 and I installed the latest software available on a small pc of 2001 that does not even have the USB 2.O
I am more than happy and I admit that a m&#39;vite collosaux costs of purchase or acquisition of vintage vinyl (like the 250 vinyl - it&#39;s not a joke) among others. Without having value as piracy sounds I use in gnral fell into the public domain for ages.

In technical terms on a turntable:

The tracking is excellent and all positions Absolute / Relative / particulirement apprciables are intelligent.
The management of shortcuts is very well thought and actually a manip keyboard complete without the mouse pad is made intuitive because Grable.

+ A big, big + for tracking in scratch, once the calibration - super simple to do - is set up, round trips on the vinyl are good quality trs.
Sometimes I lose track of a long session (but when I practice and not the concert) and only on trs quick cuts, such as Flares 1-2 3-clicks, and when the pc a long running and I&#39;m just a.

The five points are trsractifs cues and allow a lot of small pleasures found on the turntables CDs, you do not, however, the same effect - at least I did not find - that one can have on a Cdj 1000 MK2 CD stopping position and pushing the jog, or even some slow motion effect, but this is normal after all, the software will not be a prtend object that replaces the Traktor or other apps, it does sound qu&#39;muler numrique on vinyl or CD media (the coup Obviously the absence of effects I mentioned above, is more to consider if you work on a CD player)

The loop effect is quite frankly, prcis with a good management of the recovery of the beginning of the loop, there is no knock as one might hear on some soft drinks or platinum CDs. Knowing that most effect the loop can be controlled by the vinyl was still a pleasure.

- A little less for the cut point. You can sometimes find that 5 cue points is not enough, you can always cheat by renaming mp3&#39;s and adding a 5-SERIES cue points, and by playing on the other deck, but must admit that it &#39; is a little look to take the head. It could be that the latest version of software provides hot-cues in addition to the five pre-Defines but I have not yet sought.

- A little less for the pilot loop effect directly on the desktop, the timing is inconvenient, at least for someone like me who comes from the vinyl - and I can not get a timing of the beginning and prcis end of the loop without using a tray or a jog, then relative position.

- Still less for the multi-loop, which grate is difficult sometimes when we want to direct more stalling, since we do dfile positions 1/2/3 etc ... to get its loop.

+ A reading of the spectrum, trs trs is useful for me, who am trs visual, and that previously used the paths for me again.

+ The microphone jack with the recorder. Sometimes I record my music live and use the samples with strong cue-points.
It can also record a vinyl or a deck, I never tried but may be we can record the session scratch, I do not think has not at all.
- Can not save the two decks at the same time.

Technical character that motivated my choice:

The almost unlimited possibilities (7 min or 10 min) to mulate all sounds.
The absence of parasites ds wear grooves of vinyl.
The large solid-CODS hard time, the redemption price plutt cheap bte all the possibility to return the disc, if by chance a silent face scratched.

Which need:

From scratch first. All the techniques are applicable with certain limitations evokes, but can equally well be linked poor quality of a cell reading that low processing give the computer.

Which Systm:

2 pdx Mk2 Pro Vestax home
Stanton Trackmasters II cells, RS for one, sometimes Ortofon Gold.
A mixer Ecler Hak360

GETTING STARTED

No bp compatibility trs the app is just greedy.
The manual is a little dated, is that of version 1.4 but a pdf version of the forums and good call quality day additions.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

An old Compaq with 512 Ram, and a pro. something ghz.
USB 1.o (the motherboard has never t flashes)

I happened to have some bugs, and for restarting, but never on scne.
My computer is not very young and do multi-chih (like sending a CD in the drive at the same time) is not recommended for all fawns.

OVERALL OPINION

More than eight months now.
Trs flexibility of use.
I tried Stanton THE FIRST version of this kind of app that&#39;s me.
It is certainly expensive, but still a good value trs qualitprix knowing that I have an unlimited possibility to play what I want.
A choice that I do not regret.