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Originally posted by onceler go and read the article for yourself... http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,61273,00.html it states... "So we added some new technologies: MIDI implementation, new knobs and buttons and dials so that a mixer which traditionally controls just the audio feeds controls two G4 laptops. " (talking about what his dad did to the A&H Xone 62 to make it the CTRL mixer) and then... "I've got two computers. One is running Final Scratch and one's running this program called Ableton Live, which enables me whole options of doing looping and sampling and different effects work. "

Well that is nice. The version of Stanton FinalScratch I have is 1.1 (aka TraktorFS) and it does not use MIDI. Two sound cards (the insides of the "scatchamp") are used (one per TT) to decode the "timecode" coming from the vinyl so it knows which part of the song is playing (which is then sent from the soundcards in the "scratchamp" to the mixer's inputs). Now I think it would be great to have FS integrated into a mixer (though I don't think someone like A&H will do that till the ScratchAmp is of much better quality... maybe they could make there own version.. that would rule). Anyway, my whole point is that FS does not use MIDI, there may be lots of other software outthere what a DJ would want to control with MIDI, but FS aint it.

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that mixer, has too much eye candy!!

i probably wouldn't be concerned on mixing rather than salivating at all the pretty colours!

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Originally posted by auujay Well that is nice. The version of Stanton FinalScratch I have is 1.1 (aka TraktorFS) and it does not use MIDI. Two sound cards (the insides of the "scatchamp") are used (one per TT) to decode the "timecode" coming from the vinyl so it knows which part of the song is playing (which is then sent from the soundcards in the "scratchamp" to the mixer's inputs). Now I think it would be great to have FS integrated into a mixer (though I don't think someone like A&H will do that till the ScratchAmp is of much better quality... maybe they could make there own version.. that would rule). Anyway, my whole point is that FS does not use MIDI, there may be lots of other software outthere what a DJ would want to control with MIDI, but FS aint it.

Doesn't traktor use midi ? And I thought traktor was used with FS...

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Originally posted by `pr0digy Doesn't traktor use midi ? And I thought traktor was used with FS...

TraktorFS is different from Traktor. I do not have the normal version of Traktor, nor have I ever used it so it may use MIDI. The TraktorFS version does not use it, this version is basicly the same as version 1.0 of FS but with better software written by NI. The hardware interface and everything is exactly the same (that is why you can by the software upgrade and still use the same ScratchAmp).

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Holy crap.

And the same for the price...heh. I'll stick with my DJM-500 until I win the lottery

ohh cool, thanks..

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Originally posted by onceler Richie uses the midi so he can control Final Scratch on one G4 laptop and Albatron (sp?) Live on the other w/o moving away from the mixer. The midi just gives the dj another technology avenue to play with. For example, say you had a song written in Reason that you wanted to spin. you could hook your laptop w/ reason on to this, play the song, and in realtime, via the mixer, tweak different knobs and settings on reason w/o going to your laptop. You might say that you dont need this, but it adds to the performance. What looks better, a person on stage playing w/ knobs on a mixer, or a person on stage playing with a laptop and mouse?

wicked.. but way out of my budget. Looks certain to be seen in club setups in the future though..

Where could I buy one of those?