djaniquinn
11:12 AM - 17 January, 2007
you'd have to have an internal mixer in serato to control the levels of each sound that you wanted to use for the drop effect. and you'd have to pre assign which output it came out of. this is assuming you were using the same ssl box. there are only 2 outputs , right ? one for the left turntable (or cd player, or internal mode, what ever you are using) and then one for the right side. so when you trigger the sound it would need to know which output to play from. i'm just writing as these thoughts come to my mind, excuse my non linear thought process. i want to be able to have drops, but i don't want them sharing an output with my music. the drops need their own output, otherwise they could potentially distort or mess up the quality of the sound. i think it's a great idea to have the ability to add drops to your mix with SSL. The number keys already act as triggers. so you could potentially have one side of your cue points, acting as a bank of sounds. you'd just have to make a single file with the five different sounds. and then assign each of them a cue . that's a way to have drops with the way SSL is currently configured. But i know i want to be able to drop sound effects, ids etc. while both turntables are playing at the same time. so that's what makes me think that they need to make a new box with a third output..... for a third turntable and/or bank of sounds.
but then the good people at serato will have their work cut out for them. they'd definitely need to change the layout of the screen. all this can happen though. they've already made lots of additions and changes since the introduction of the rane 57(the serato mixer). there's a whole section of controls for the serato mixer that pops up when you plug in your usb cable to the 57. not everyone would want to use the third turntable/soundbank feature. so you'd want to maybe hide it if it wasn't being used. (which is what happens when you aren't plugged into the serato mixer) i could keep writing, i'm gonna stop. my point is, THEY NEED A THIRD STEREO OUTPUT to properly play a bank of sounds at the same time as the two turntables. and then after that an EMPATH style serato mixer (the 58 ?) with a third controllable line with volume adjust. so you could have three adjustable sound sources playing simultaneously. ALL THIS IS POSSIBLE. it's just a matter of how soon. i think later than sooner though because you're talking about hardware changes not just software changes. (atleast to do it right)
