Gonna buy Serato Scratch!!!

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:07 am

I just need to find a GOOD price. I've not been able to find it for less than £439 (approx. 650 Euro).

Does any body know where I can get a cheaper price than this on t'interweb? I'll be buying from Turnkey in London, and they'll price-match any internet price...

Can anyone help???

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:40 am

Patch wrote:I just need to find a GOOD price. I've not been able to find it for less than £439 (approx. 650 Euro).

Does any body know where I can get a cheaper price than this on t'interweb? I'll be buying from Turnkey in London, and they'll price-match any internet price...

Can anyone help???

Same price here in Germany.www.thomann.de

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:11 pm

Cheers, vakis - I tried Thomann, they saved me a few quid on an Ultralite. Wish me luck - it seems that Serato is priced the same all over Europe...

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:17 pm

Just ask them if they can make a better price,they are good.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:04 pm

I just bought it and I didn't see much rythm as far as the price goes. Seems to be pretty much the same all over. I paid $499 US for it from Guitar Center.

Here in the States lot's of stuff goes on sale this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Retailers call it "Black Friday" - supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year and kicks off the Christmas shopping season. My wife urged me to wait for Black Friday to get Serato, but I wasn't hearing it. Anyway, I doubt there will be any sort of sale for Serato anyway, but who knows. Also, I'm not sure if a US sale would help you out either, assuming "Black Friday" is strictly a US phenomena.

m:o · Post by **m:o** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:30 pm

I don't want you irritate on your decision, but have you hear about Ms. Pinky?
It's nearly the same as Serato and final scratch, but alot more flexible when it comes to different media types (scratching video and stuff like that..)
Take a look. Only 100$! Maybe it fits your need's. Btw. It's flawlessly usable within Live thru the pluggo plugins. Killah!

Will buy one next month.

http://www.mspinky.com

luke_l · Post by **luke_l** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:33 pm

Got mine on ebay for about £300. You may see a few Serato sellers now that Torq is out.

SUPERBANANBOMB · Post by **SUPERBANANBOMB** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:58 pm

There are so many competitors to Serato now that I don't recommend buying it.

I have Serato personally, but there are better programs out there. I reccommend MIXVIBES... it's basically half the price of Serato, offers more functions and it's pretty much better in every way.

Serato is great, don't get me wrong. Mixvibes is better.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:00 pm

dude you could get Torq for next to nothing... and it's better plus has rewire

Adonis · Post by **Adonis** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:02 pm

if you're looking for a deal

try http://craiglist.org - hopefully they're up where you live in that part of the world

throw a WTB: SERATO up and you'll get a couple replies

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:48 am

Whoa - I've never seen mixvibes. It might be in the running, here! The problem again (with mixvibes) is:

Can I use it in parallel with Ableton (ie - at the same time, on the same machine?) and route the audio frommixvibes into Ableton for recording/looping?

[EDIT] HOLY COW - the more I read about this the more I want it!!! Scratch video?!? Hell yeah!!! VST Support?!? HELL YEAH!!! 1 (ONE!) ms latency through ASIO?!? HELL YEAH!!!

And, oh yeah - YOU DO NOT NEED SEPARATE HARDWARE!!! Just your soundcard...

(P.S - the fact that it matches the Mattsonic/Patch Skin for Live doesn't do it any harm, either!

)

[EDIT II] Does anybody know why there is no need for phono pre-amps? I've been looking at virtualDJ as well, and there is no hardware required for that either.

I can remember a while back reading that you would ALWAYS need to amplify phono signals to get them into your computer for processing... What has changed to allow mixvibes/virtualDJ to do this without any pre-amps???

musick · Post by **musick** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:23 am

IMHO there is only one reliable 'vinyl emulation' product out and that's Serato Scratch Live. Even with Ms Pinky you can (already for years) control audio with records, but I would use it in a live stage DJ environment.

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:29 am

Hi Patch,

We can sell you Serato Scratch.

Ill call my distibutor at 9 o'clock and see what the best price is.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:38 am

musick wrote:IMHO there is only one reliable 'vinyl emulation' product out and that's Serato Scratch Live.

I'll assume you've tried 'em all?

Serato Scratch Live
Final Scratch 2
Torq
VirtualDJ
Mixvibes
Ms. Pinky

If that's the case, thank you very much for your suggestion - if that's not the case, what is your opinion based on?

wilxon wrote:We can sell you Serato Scratch.

Many Thanks!!! But it looks like I'm back at square one with the introduction of mixvibes into the equation!

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:42 am

i thought that as i carried on reading the thread.

I have just sent an account request into mixvibes to become a dealer. Ill let you know how i get on through the next day or two.

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