Scratch Live 1.9 What You’ve Been Waiting For
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Serato has recently announced Scratch Live 1.9 at 2009 NAMM and apparently, the greatest dj program on earth, just got greater, let’s go over and watch the press review:
Serato unveil new performance tools in Scratch Live 1.9
Auckland, New Zealand (January 15th, 2009) – New for 2009, Serato Scratch Live 1.9 now arms DJs with more tools than ever. This free upgrade places a stunning array of features at DJās ļ¬ngertips, enabling creative possibilities never seen before. Major new features include SP-6 Sample Player, LiveFeed, native MEP-7000 support, Loop Roll, enhanced History, and support for Video-SL 1.1.
The new SP-6 Sample Player adds six extra audio players that can be triggered with the computer keyboard or a MIDI controller, turning compatible Rane hardware into a high performance sampler.
Brand new in Scratch Live 1.9 is a groundbreaking feature called LiveFeed, taking live external audio and placing it directly on a Scratch Live virtual deck, all in real time. The DJ has instant control of live external audio with Vinyl, CD or MIDI.
āLiveFeed gives DJs a live stream of audio to mess with, the creative possibilities are really endless,ā reports General Manager, Sam Gribben.
The Pioneer MEP-7000 gains plug-and-play native support, joining the popular Pioneer CDJ-400 as a Scratch Live control surface. Control CDs are not required, and song data is shown directly on the MEP-7000ās displays.
Loop Roll adds an interesting new stutter effect, which can also be used in conjunction with the new LiveFeed feature.
The History function now keeps a comprehensive record of every track played, during every gig. This is a real time saver for professional DJs who need to log their sessions.
Album Art is also added to the virtual deck in Scratch Live, assisting with rapid song identiļ¬cation.
Scratch Live 1.9 also adds ofļ¬ine video playback, in conjunction with the Video-SL 1.1 plug-in, also being shown at NAMM 2009. This feature lets Serato Video-SL users manage effects, cue and loop points for their videos without hardware connected. Video-SL 1.1 adds support for the Rane SL 1 and Rane MP 4.
FEATURES
ā¢ Add video clips to your Scratch Live performance
ā¢ View loaded clips and output from your computer
ā¢ Many built-in transitions and effects
ā¢ Includes TTM 57SL mixer overlays (boxed version)
ā¢ Supported video codecs: H.264, DV, Motion JPEG A and B, MPEG-4
VIDEO-SL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
ā¢ The Rane TTM 57SL has built-in capability; OR SL 1 or MP 4 (MIDI / USB controller recommended)
ā¢ Scratch Live 1.9
ā¢ 2 GB RAM
ā¢ 5 GB free on system drive
ā¢ Storage for video files
ā¢ Mac OS X: 2 GHz MacBook or better.
ā¢ Windows XP or Vista:
ā¢ 2 GHz Core 2 Duo or better.
ā¢ Minimum graphics card: Intel 945 or better*
Recommended cards:
ā¢ Nvidia 8400 or better
ā¢ ATI 1650 or better.
Rane Serato Scratch Live (Macintosh and Windows)
AGIPRODJ runs through the new version on NAMM 2009:
We Will update as soon as there will be a public beta available for download!
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The still image in the start of this article is NOT a screenshot of serato but a mockup I did in July 2007, using iTunes list view as a source of “inspiration”, to illustrate a feature request.
The original sketch was uploaded to my flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/audun_notevarp/853831929/
There is still no option to browse the tracks by album art, like you would in iTunes, Media Monkey, Windwows media center, Rapid Evolution etc. And this remains a request by a lot of the SSL users.
WarpNote.
Thank you for the clarification, and for the lovely mock-up
You’re welcome, in this post on the serato forum you will find more of my mockups, and a discussion of the artwork browsing issue: http://scratchlive.net/forum/discussion/?discussion_id=119966
(scroll down to the first post by “WarpNote” on that page…)