I still mark my records with a sticker, and I use that to go back and forth and do tricks. I'm not using it to match the waveforms or anything other than playing the music. I only look at it when I'm switching tracks. I barely ever look at my laptop when I'm using Serato. Like, I'm very stingy about even sharing my files. "The funny thing with Serato," adds DJ Mel, "is that I've applied everything I believed in with records to this software. It's obviously not a tangible item, you know, but there's still gotta be some sacredness to it." "For me, the bottom line on Serato," says Chris "Prince" Klassen, "is that even though you're using these digital files instead of vinyl, you still ought to treat those tracks like a record. "It just makes the whole process of DJing a lot easier." It allows you to be ahead of the curve while you're in a club. "You still feel like you're spinning records because it comes with special vinyls that are encoded with time markers that then sends a signal into this black box, and then from there to your mixer to your laptop screen where you can visually beat-match the tracks via their sine waves. "Basically what Serato allows you to do is DJ MP3 music files instead of vinyl records," explains Cut Club's Dave "Kidindie" Pacho. So you wanna be a DJ, but you just can't get the hang of beat-matching, and the idea of hauling around 100 pounds of delectable vinyl makes your back ache? Not to worry, Rane's Serato Scratch Live software enables even the most diminutive of DJs to operate minus all that heavy black wax ( Not that Serato has smoothed over the ideological skirmishing between vinyl purists and those less skilled in finer points of real-world DJ finesse.
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