Serato Scratch Live 1.9 Beta

Rane Serato Scratch Live 1.9 beta has been released and as promised, delivers stunning features to enable DJ’s to new creative possibilities. This free upgrade places a stunning array of features at DJ’s fingertips, enabling creative possibilities never seen before. Major new features include SP-6 Sample Player, LiveFeed, native MEP-7000 support, Loop Roll, enhanced History, and support for Video-SL 1.1.

The new SP-6 Sample Player adds six extra audio players that can be triggered with the computer keyboard or a MIDI controller, turning compatible Rane hardware into a high performance sampler.

Brand new in Scratch Live 1.9 is a groundbreaking feature called LiveFeed, taking live external audio and placing it directly on a Scratch Live virtual deck, all in real time. The DJ has instant control of live external audio with Vinyl, CD or MIDI.

“LiveFeed gives DJs a live stream of audio to mess with, the creative possibilities are really endless,” reports General Manager, Sam Gribben.

The Pioneer MEP-7000 gains plug-and-play native support, joining the popular Pioneer CDJ-400 as a Scratch Live control surface. Control CDs are not required, and song data is shown directly on the MEP-7000’s displays.

Loop Roll adds an interesting new stutter effect, which can also be used in conjunction with the new LiveFeed feature.

The History function now keeps a comprehensive record of every track played, during every gig. This is a real time saver for professional DJs who need to log their sessions.

Album Art is also added to the virtual deck in Scratch Live, assisting with rapid song identification.
Scratch Live 1.9 also adds offline video playback, in conjunction with the Video-SL 1.1 plug-in, also being shown at NAMM 2009. This feature lets Serato Video-SL users manage effects, cue and loop points for their videos without hardware connected. Video-SL 1.1 adds support for the Rane SL 1 and Rane MP 4.

Download Serato Live 1.9 Beta

The beta release has been available for a few weeks now, and has had tremendous reviews. Here are some video tutorials on some of the new features:

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Jay Tripwire – Live From Brazil

Jay Tripwire has kindly passed on a live dj recording from Brazil. This is quality street – nice juicy deep delicious house music for your Monday. Here’s some more info on the local Vancouverite:

Jay now has over 100 releases to his credit with over 100 000 records sold on some of the finest labels underground house music has to offer. His music has featured on numerous commercially-released mix CD’s by many major artists and has been charted by everyone from John Digweed to Terry Francis to Fred Everything, illustrating the fact that his music has a vast range of appeal: crossing the many boundaries within underground house and even managing to pull progressive DJ’s back into it. Jay’s most recent achievement was the custom made track “Room 2” for Sony’s Wipeout Pure for the Sony PSP handheld.

Jay’s most recent project started out as a secret but word soon spread about the real identity of his mysterious alter ego, Mr. Barcode. Under that alias, Jay has explored a sound that is all things robotic – yet his unique production ability turns even the nastiest 303 into pure dancefloor funk. The Barcode sound has been gaining popularity through singles and a slew of remixes, and has appeared even on Music For Freaks for their BAD ACID compilation mixed by Chris Duckenfield of Swag.

We know there are plenty of choices out there but when it comes to naughty basslines and dirty grooves, there’s only one name: Jay Tripwire.

Listen or download the mix from either of the links below:

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Here is Jays latest release available via traxsource

Links:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jay+Tripwire
http://www.myspace.com/jaytripwire

Thanks Jay!!

Classic Daft Punk Live Mix from 1997

I recently moved and found an awesome box of old mixtapes including a classic daft punk mix recorded Dec 14, 1997 at fun radio. After playing it this morning and thought it was amazing and brought back some great memories. Here is the complete tracklisting: Read more

January Update

Hello Friends!! I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas and New Years. I wanted to write a quick post to recap some cool things we’ve done since the site relaunch in September and some nifty cool things that are coming down the pipe.

First, apologies on the podcast. It ’s been suffering as i’ve been working on a slew of other projects, I’ll save the complete details for a rainy day, but we’re not far from a facebook application, an affiliate deal with djdownload, and a swanky house music cd (it seems like its been delayed forever.. And no, its not my designer or my favorite photography team :p. They’ve been great, i’m just a lazy sod).

Anyways, enough banter.. I’m fixing the itunes feed later this week, and Jay Tripwire will be the first guest of 2009. If you haven’t subscribed yet, check the sidebar for instructions and don’t forget to join my facebook group and say hello.

For those that might not know, i’m a bit of an ‘analytics junkie‘. Since September we had a 380% increase in web traffic, and we tripled our podcast subscribers. Just amazing! On top of that, I’ve met some really cool people and made some new contacts from all over the world. So thank you, and nice to meet every one of you. I hope you stick around and enjoy the music as much as i do – all the best for 2009!!!