This would be really difficult, even for the Scratch Live team, to execute properly. Performing routine maintenance in Scratch Live will be an utter pain in a device like this - things like adding/modifying tracks, moving things into/out of crates, setting BPM values, typing in comments, and so on. Plus the price would be extremely high (the 57SL is already very expensive) and the unit would be much larger and more fragile / prone to problems. I think Rane/Serato have done a good job focusing on what they can do well while resisting the urge to try and do everything at once. They didn't get where they are by creating products with the most features but by taking a simplistic approach to solving basics needs. This just sounds like too big a mountain for even Serato to climb at this point.

Besides laptops are dead cheap nowadays with more computational power than you'd ever need for such a job...

Reliability is the word of the day!

I agree with the above..

It'd be very easy for this mixer to go down and you're basically screwed (unless your carrying a spare which given the price i'd expect i'd highly doubt) With SSL running through a USB card at least if something happens to your laptop you can easily switch another one in.

The other thing is getting them around...The only reason I wouldn't buy a TTM-57SL is because I wouldn't want to carry it around between places, a laptop and the SL unit is a lot easier.

Come to think of it, seems like a CDJ-2000 might suit you perfectly.

Hey guys,

This wouldn't necessarily be much bigger or more fragile or weigh more than a normal mixer or be less reliable, and it would remove the need to have the SL unit completely. It would, in fact, be largely MORE reliable. Saying that this is at risk of "going down" is similar to saying a big sound board is at risk of going down, some of the high end units from DigiDesign use FPGAs inside to do similar things. You would just connect the turntables directly to the mixer and then to ADCs connected to the FPGA. When you drop a digital media file to a turntable, it would load from the external flash storage into the FPGA where it would be converted to RAW audio from whatever codec it is, and loaded into DDR. It would then load buffers of the audio track into FPGA internal SRAM buffers which it would play out to DACs based on the timecode input from the ADCs. At first, this could be accomplished quite simply without any fancy features, no touch screen, no effects, just a simple LCD display to show the list of songs on the thumbdrive and a simple button on each side to select that song to load for a particular turntable. You wouldn't get the displays, the fancy software, but you also wouldn't have to interface to a PC and a keyboard in order to play digital music as if you own the vinyl and would reduce the "lag" between vinyl movement and audio output as close to zero as possible.

cdj 2000, cdj900, or those older denon units...what was it....hs...something?

Clearly the reason they are not designing something like this is because the market isn't there. I'll consider the question answered.

I think some market is there, I mean, you already have some products like TT's and CD-players with built in harddrive that kind of behave the way you describe (almost). But I think the market isn't that big. The SL-unit allows for flexibility in equipment, you can use whatever mixer, whatever Turntable, or whatever CD-player you want and use that with SSL. And that's the power of this concept I think. You can stick to your favourite mixer. And also, you can go as cheap or as expensive as you want.

People like choice and I think that's why your concept wouldn't be popular enough.
my 0.02$

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good idea but prob would be thousands of dollars. so a seperate computer would be affordable. considering SL3 is already around $800 is most places alone.

Nice idea but I can see it being cost prohibitive for most.