*moved to general*

There is no direct timecode output from scratch LIVE, the only way I guess would be to somehow have one of the decks in Scratch LIVE play a track which is timecode as audio?

running live... = Ableton Live?

this question is coming up alot lately. Seems like we need a good solution.

There are 2 good solutions.

1) Buy a mixer with Midi Clock output. The Ecler Nuo5 and Allen & Heath Xone:3d are the only ones that do it.

2) Build a midi-clock device that takes in audio, extracts the tempo, and syncs a midi click to it. This will probably cost you more in lost productivity than the other 2 mixers, but it'd make you feel cool. www.ucapps.de has information, but idk if there's enough information or capability in the PIC to actually do this.

and one bad solution.

Red Sound used to make MIDI clock devices that did just what I described above, but they stopped making them...they're in limited production now (if it's not over yet)...and they cost like $500.

Josh, there is no timecode... only noisemap. Come on, you guy inveted it... I think.

lol I wouldnt call those good sollutions for people with existing setups. Anyway..

midi clock is not the way to go, except if this midi clock has spring push/pull lever like on the Xone 3D, which nobody yet has tried btw...

What we need is a simple pitch bend function in Ableton Live, so the problem here is not on Serato's side...

What do you mean? I'm a bit confused.

Isn't a timecode just a digital time (ie 000 001 010 011.....) and a noisemap kind of like a grid with co-ordinates (ie
a00 a01 a10 a11
b00 b01 b10 b11
...

I think that would be an over simplified version of the noisemap on the CV's (compared to the "timecode" on lets say FS vinyls). I think the reasoning behind the faster latency is that if you read one co-ordinate from the noise map it will be faster then reading the absolute position timecode.

haha, I know how the noisemap works...

It's a pseudo-random bitstream which has the quality that any consecutive 20bits is a unique number within the stream, move one bit, and you have another position, etc etc.

My confusion was from the statement "Josh, there is no timecode... only noisemap."

Sure we don't control our system with timecode, but that doesn't mean we couldn't output timecode to slave up some other system.

(and ^that doesn't mean we will ;-) )

DO IT PLEASE! or make Serato have a very accurate bpm which sends midi clock to Ableton so it autosyncs or something ... :D

Please

head over to the feature suggestions area guys... and search!

Opps.. sorry for the confusion. I was thinking you were talking about the input.