I don't know about final scratch but I can give you a complete run down on digi scratch.


Basically Digi Scratch is by American DJ. It is just like a standard Dual CD player Dennon 2100F, American DJ 400 e.t.c. e.t.c. The only addition that using a box that your turntables RJ cables plug into you can use a special piece of vinyl to control the track playing in the CD drive (that the turntables scratch box is hooked up to). Using this piece of vinyl you can do pitch bends, scratching, cueing up e.t.c. e.t.c. So basically it is an additional feature to the CDJ unit. NO COMPUTER IS REQUIRED. Also note your turntables can also be used as normal turntables. The scratch box has like a pass through. So if your mixer channel is on Phono it will be a normal turntable and if it is on line it will be the controller for the CDJ. Note also that you still have a standard controller for the CDJ. This controller has all the normal CDJ functionality. Also one side of the special piece of vinyl is for 45 and the other is for playing cd's at 33.


My opinions on Digi Scratch are firt of all manipulating a CD with vinyl is cool. It doesn't really have the same feel as DJ'ing with a normal piece of vinyl though. For example when you cue up with the special piece of vinyl and rub back and forwards over the beat. It doesn't seem to hit as hard as normal vinyl would. Other things that are annoying is there is not wave form display of the track in the cd drive. As the vinyl is generic you can't see whats coming up in the track on it (Build ups e.t.c.). Another annoying thing is obviously like the above you can't just place the needle at a point on the vinyl and expect the cd to go there.


Cheers, Josh