YO DJ! anyone use Serato?

[swampviking]

I have no need for this. No beat matching in punk rock.

[rockologist]

My favorite part about this is that he can be setting up his laptop at home 10 minutes before his gig and i can tell him about a track that would be prefect for his set and he can get it in minutes and throw it down in his set. Hell, he could be downloading beats on his way to the club in his car!

takes the hunt out of getting certain records, and it could be said that those once hard-to-find jams lose a lot of their holy grail appeal. definitely a nod to the immediacy of a culture absorbed with archiving and spreading itself. that said, my thoughts at times are archaic. in the same discussion, i can easily heap praise upon a model of distribution and community which allows a kid in alaska to make perfect baltimore tunes and get them thrown into a mix by a kid in australia, to be downloaded by another kid in canada.

[rockologist]

it is just another tool. The popularity of CDJ's got the same heat. I don't care what a DJ uses as long as the mix is on and the tracks move the floor, it really doesn't matter.

ultimately, yes. "DJing" is a progressive thing, and that includes new technology, whether purists like that or not. pitch control was at one time a new technology.
i'm into ms.pinkys.

[jblomquist]

I've used Serato Scratch Live for the last year or so, and I wouldn't use anything else. It is ROCK SOLID. I run it with a Mac PowerBook G4 1.5ghz w/1gb of RAM, and 2 external firewire drives with all of my music. I haven't had one problem. I used to get smacked with extra baggage charges when I traveled, but not anymore! 6000+ songs in my backpack. Don't believe the hype on all of the other imitators, Serato is the way to go.
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And to reply to some of your comments... Serato has no "automatic beat match" function. If you use it like I do, or most DJs for that matter, you do all of your pitch adjustments with the turntable's pitch control. As for "taking the hunt out of certain records"... I still collect vinyl vigorously. Except now I only have to record a rare record once, and I can play it millions of times with no wear and tear.

[Papercuts]

I've used Serato Scratch Live for the last year or so, and I wouldn't use anything else. It is ROCK SOLID. I run it with a Mac PowerBook G4 1.5ghz w/1gb of RAM, and 2 external firewire drives with all of my music. I haven't had one problem. I used to get smacked with extra baggage charges when I traveled, but not anymore! 6000+ songs in my backpack. Don't believe the hype on all of the other imitators, Serato is the way to go.
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And to reply to some of your comments... Serato has no "automatic beat match" function. If you use it like I do, or most DJs for that matter, you do all of your pitch adjustments with the turntable's pitch control. As for "taking the hunt out of certain records"... I still collect vinyl vigorously. Except now I only have to record a rare record once, and I can play it millions of times with no wear and tear.

COOL this is how i would be using it. I have tables, had em for 8+ years, but couldnt use them for a long time as i was away at school.

Now I am deciding between serato, torq (probazbly going with serato) or cdj's


Question, any mixer (like a djm800) all the effects it has will run/translate.work through seratoi right?

[El Negro Magnifico!]

I'm glad this came up! I recognize how powerful a tool it is, and there are some that argue about how it's killing vinyl. My friends Co-op and Hunnicutt use it on the regular.


Buck 65 using Co-op and Hunnicutt's set-up (photo by Co-op):

[Papercuts]

Its practical vs traditional, and considering i have about 15000 songs digitally that I dont have on vinyl I think its well worth it.

Plus I get a laptop out of it. SWEET.

[Papercuts]

I will be selling my BRY green lady, if anyones interested.

[jblomquist]

COOL this is how i would be using it. I have tables, had em for 8+ years, but couldnt use them for a long time as i was away at school.

Now I am deciding between serato, torq (probazbly going with serato) or cdj's


Question, any mixer (like a djm800) all the effects it has will run/translate.work through seratoi right?

any effect you can put on your line/phono output will still work. I'm assuming the effects are built in to your mixer. I use a Rane TTM-56. Btw, I had the CDJ-1000's for a while and sold them to get the Serato system and some RAM for my PowerBook. Best thing I ever did... CDJ's are alright but NOTHING like vinyl. And it seemed like I was burning new cds everyday.

[Papercuts]

is that the mixer that comes with the software? Like it?


Yeah I have a feeling id have 1000s of burned cds laying around all unorganzied if i had cdjs. Thanks for the help. Scratch Lives the way to goit sounds.