djadonis206 wrote:Patch wrote:Drag n' drop Live clips onto a Turntable to scratch 'em? Control Lives master tempo with control vinyl? Who knows...
loop the scratch or just just the drums
lock that into the other 2 tracks
cue up another track with control vinyl, double beat that one over your three tracks
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
I've been thinking about this a lot, trying to envision how it's going to fly.
When you're using Scratch Live, the program demands a lot of screen real estate. You need to see the moving waveforms readily, and you need to see your library to be able to throw songs around a lot. By default Scratch Live opens up in full screen mode to take advantage of every precious inch of your laptop's monitor.
It would be really cool if the two programs acted as one hybrid. Like how two audio programs detect one another with ReWire. If you launch Live and then launch Scratch Live, you would be prompted if you would like to go into
Serabletono mode.
I was about to write that it would be wise to avoid having too many screens, but it occurred to me that one of the coolest things about recording a DJ set with Live is that you can go into Arrangement view afterward and tweak it out a bit more to your liking. IT WOULD BE AWESOME if you could do this with Scratch Live. Record your DJ set then tweak it in Arrangement! Yes!
Back to the hybrid thing. I think it would be a good idea to try to integrate the performance tools of both programs into one screen, with the ability to "go back to arrangement" only when necessary. Integrating elements of Session View, and Clip View would be sick. The current looping functionality in Scratch Live is baby food compared to Session View. Nix the Serato looper and give that real estate to Session.
I want to be able to launch a scene, pick it up and drop it on a deck and fuck with it. Once you have a scene playing on a deck you can continue to add clips to it, and take them away. All that tasty real time functionality - with vinyl control and the informative waveforms and cool beat matching tools of Serato. As far as the automatic beat matching ability of Itch goes, I wouldn't put it in the first version. Save that bit for version two, once all of the stubborn old school DJ's realize that they cannot live another day without Live. Then stick it in there to compete with the lesser DJing programs in the market.
I recall that one of the fruits of the Cycling 74 partnership was going to be the ability to have Live communicate more openly with hardware. As important as screen real estate is, it'd be nice if this collaboration was planning from the get go to have the performer not rely on a computer monitor. The more feedback from these programs that you can send to displays on controllers the better off the world will be.