Put Away Your Precious Vinyl and Scratch Digitally!
Rane and Serato have teamed up to create an amazing DJ rig! Scratch LIVE is the ultimate software and hardware solution for bridging the analog world of vinyl and the digital world of computer audio files. Using regular turntables or CD players, you can scratch and mix files from your Mac or Windows XP computer's CD or hard drive, add in a live mic input for scratching, and even bypass to standard vinyl if you wish. Scratch LIVE is the complete digital solution for the vinyl junkie -- take your entire collection wherever you go and leave your precious vinyl at home!
Rane Scratch LIVE at a Glance:- Simple, reliable hardware interface connects turntables to computer
- Powerful, easy-to-use software allows scratching, needle drops, and all other DJ functions
- Included vinyl records offer real turntable actions
Simple, reliable hardware interface
Rane Scratch LIVE includes the SL 1 interface to connect one or two standard vinyl or CD turntables to your computer. This extremely rugged, portable, high quality, bus-powered USB interface features two switchable phono or line inputs, a microphone input, two line outputs, and pass-through outputs for the phono/line and mic.
Powerful, easy-to-use software
The Scratch LIVE software gives you everything a DJ needs and then some. Its visual waveform display makes it so easy to match beats, you can do it without even hearing the tracks. Scratch LIVE offers Absolute Mode to faithfully reproduce movement of vinyl control records, including stops, starts, scratching, needle dropping, rubbing, backspins, powerdowns and other turntablist techniques. Or use the Relative Mode to disable needle dropping to ignore record skips, but still allow scratching. Scratch LIVE allows you to save your digital tracks in virtual "crates" to make finding the right tracks easy. Plus, Scratch LIVE can handle MP3, AIFF, WAV, OGG, and CD audio.
Included vinyl records offer real turntable actions
The included 12" vinyl records each have a Serato exclusive and unique control signal which allows Scratch LIVE to track the motion of the record, simulating the same movement with digital audio. Due to Serato's proprietary control scheme, the result is a feel and sound indistinguishable from playing vinyl. As a producer and DJ, the track you finished today can be played on a real turntable tonight. You'll never have to cut a dubplate again!
- Runs natively on Windows XP and Mac OS X
- Supported File formats: Fixed and Variable Bit Rate MP3, AIFF, WAV, OGG, CD Audio and direct from the mic input
- Play and scratch tracks direct from CD and CD-ROM
- Record from the mic input and immediately scratch as if it was on vinyl
- Absolute Mode: faithfully reproduce movement of vinyl control records, including stops, starts, scratching, needle dropping, rubbing, backspins, powerdowns and other turntablist techniques
- Relative Mode: disable needle dropping to ignore record skips, but still allow scratching
- Internal Mode: play songs without vinyl control, enabled automatically when end of vinyl groove is reached
- Digital "crates" for quick access to your favorite collections
- Full iTunes integration, Windows and Mac
- Browse music collection by Artist, Album, Tempo (BPM) or Genre, with optional album art display
- Instant full text search of ID3 tags, matches partial search terms; Edit ID3 tags with full Unicode support
- Adjustable gain per song file
- Drag and drop importing of tracks, no preprocessing required
- Add whole directories of music files on the fly: tags are read in background, no performance interruptions
- Single key song loading. Single key deck swapping
- Full track overview showing current play point
- Variable zoom waveforms centered around current needle position
- Waveform coloring to distinguish different musical features
- Large on-screen record label, for scratching and beat juggling
- Visual markers can be set at important cue points, and triggered from the keyboard
- Large elapsed time and time remaining displays
- Beat display emphasizes transients in tracks to visually assist with beat matching
- Tempo display assists with rapid tempo matching of tracks
- Latency can be adjusted to match CPU power
- Assign the same track to both turntables simultaneously
- Current RPM Indicator: 33 / 45 RPM vinyl selector
- Scope display for testing signal path quality
- Low power warning when running off laptop battery
- USB interface and bus-powered for fast, simple setup
- Phono level inputs for direct connection of 2 turntables to your computer - no phono preamp required
- Line level inputs: No extra hardware required for CD decks and line-level turntables
- Input-thrus: Switch instantly back to regular vinyl
- Microphone input with adjustable gain; Microphone thru output
- Analog circuitry fully isolated from the noisy USB Bus
- Optional external power pack for permanent installations, or switching computers during a live show
- Side A: 10 minutes plus Vinyl Select area. Side B: 15 minutes
- Vinyl Select allows you to play a whole set without touching the computer
- Visible minute time markers on vinyl
- Continuous control signal on vinyl allows smooth accurate scratching
- Innovative positioning system for fast and accurate needle dropping
- Two 15 minute control CDs included
