1. Removeable
2. Beamatching
3. Display

so i can finally use my monitor again while mixing

I only have one I can think of...that's scrolling through tracks using the joystick instead of the turning knob on the ttm57. Is that even possible? That and more effects!

(1) Options for 3rd and 4th decks
(2) Upgrade to Firewire 800 (twice the through-put of USB2)
(3) Support for 24-bit/96k

A cup holder!!!!!!

1. More id3-tags (or whatever tag type applicable on chosen codec), at least the rating tag.
2. FLAC support (or any other free/open lossless codec)
3. More control over the GUI (turn on/off waveforms, skinnability, etc)

1. Split Cue option for the TTM57
2. More effects for the TTM57
3. Allow Tracks when moved to the prepare window to not be deleted when you exit the program
4. Make the GUI not so jittery and allow more control over apperance and functionality

yeah skinnability would be nice. that way we can customize the way it looks to fit our personalities!!! WE got color vinyl.. now lets be able to make the program look like our own too!!!

Mixer, Vinyl, and Gui all match? Hell yeah!

1: SSL to generate a Midi Click, and Midi Learn for the Controls.
2: third Deck option.

SSL
1. Crate management (sub/smart crates, album art browser), link crates to folders.
2. Equalizer, settings are stored per track/file
3. Right click

***extended list:
4. Ability to listen, set cues, order etc tracks w/o the S-S-L box attached to it.
5. Extended/combined relative and absolute mode so I can use loops/edits in "absolute" mode as well (I hate using relative mode cause I need to fiddle around with the mouse to jump
6. Loops with adjustable cycle number, so that can do real edits inside S-S-L ***

TTM57SL
1. Allow the promised mixtape mode, meaning being able to use SSL *and* the ASIO devices at the same time, so you can record both PGMs postfader at the same time *while* using ScratchLIVE
2. Effects controled with footswitch
3. Being able to use for example the kill-buttons as normal controls (I never use the kill buttons)

Oh I forgot all about Midi.. replace Midi with my number 3.

i'd like autoplay to swap between 2 decks, and crossfade
i know most are club dj's...
but i'm more a wedding, sweet 16, etc.
and i need to play background music for first hour,

i currently use PCDJ for this, which works great
just set to autopilot, and have the crossfade set at 15 sec, and that's it.
relax and drink.


support for midi controllers like Novation Remote SL,
this would ROCK...

naming CUE points

displaing song bitrate, (don't remember seeing this)
and have ability to display it or not in Config.

ability to CUE to a point, without having it play at all.
pressing the 1-5, actually plays your cue for the amount of time you hold it, so even a tap will play a bit of song, which i don't want..

P&T like otheres asked.
change tempo keep pitch which we have in 1.7 (can be improved)
change pitch, keep tempo (harmonic mixing)

1. Tracks shouldn`t turn green if just pre-listening ( www.scratchlive.net )
2. better skipless mode ( www.scratchlive.net )
3. auto loops / fixed loops ( www.scratchlive.net )

1. date and time stamp. (that way i would know when i played a song last. This is great for radio jocks)

2. Crossfade option with auto play.

3. Some fx would be nice

pozzi ;)

Nice suggestions there..

I'd like....

1. More robust browsing options (Ability to hold down ctrl and select several BROWSE attributes, (like R&B, POP, HIP HOP along with a BPM Range 96-99)

2. A modular GUI. Able to disable/remove/rearrange certain GUI elements.

3. "Crippled Mode" where you can have one deck, no effects, no pitch, Internal mode only for setting cue points, BPMs and loops. with out the SSL box connected

4. True Mixtape Mode

5. Third Deck

6. MIDI time

1. MIDI
2. P'n'T
3. Crates linked to folders
4. 3rd INT deck (such a good idea, mex!)

VST and MIDI support

We should be able to jump in relative mode. (This should be relative to the point the track started.)

Also it was mentioned somewhere that if the needle is put back at the start of the record the song should start over. I agree with this. I think it should stay in relative mode.

split cue for ttm57
echo in ttm57 go to 100% for a looping effect
vocoder for ttm57
bit crusher for ttm57

and i guess video would be nice

i like the suggestions above....but the main feature i see being very useful for those of us with large music collections would be to not have SSL be so dependent on where a file is (basicaly keep all the links in the database for a file regardless of what folder its in).... thats huge to me, and i noticed many others on the forum who also agree with that! thanks :)

PnT.

Effects that you can use.

loops in 1/4,1/2 etc..

Crates linked to folders thats a good idea

Being able to use for example the kill-buttons as normal controls

Ability to listen, set cues, order etc tracks w/o the S-S-L box attached to it.

split cue for ttm57

i like idlemind1999's suggestion on "cripplemode"
that did occur to me once

it would be great to be on the train, or at someones house, or wherever, and be able to at least open up serato, and set CUE points, etc., at least via one player, as he suggested.
without having to take the Rane MP4 or other mixer which is permanently installed in my rack.

and yes, being able to drag a main folder which has a subfolder, and have crates, subcrates automatically assined, as others suggested...

keep th ideas coming.
hopefully the Serato team is listening.
and hopefully they are hard at work on version 1.8 :-)

Word
+ midi clock and auto-looping functions for on-the-fly creativity!

what i would suggest, is not to make the program to complicated by adding all these features that not everyone will, hence taking up CPU time and resources. The product is almost perfect (hence you can never be perfect, then there would be no more releases of Serato). What you guys should look at doing is patch installs. So what you would have is the basic serato application, then have like a "auto bpm indicator" batch, were if you were after a bmp indicator to show up in serato, you would just download that patch and install it, and away it goes.

i use serato just for the basic's. i probably wont use the effect functions and things like that (as im sure many others wont either, but im also sure that you will have ppl that will love that function), that is why i probably wont upgrade to the latest version. im running 1.6.2 and im loving it. it does what i need it to do, and when i need it to do.

i dont know if that would be more work for you guys or not, but probably something you guys can think about.

Thats my 2 cents..
keep up the great work guys.
All the best in 07

FX (filters, beat effects & delay) & MIDI control!!!

1. Midi for all controls
2. Auto/seamless looping functions
3. VST FX for both channels
4. Smart Crates (drag and drop whole folders with sub folders and make an identical copy in Serato)
5. Ability to see another laptops track/waveform info for playing tag team Serato or four deck to laptop

(either that or the ability to hook up two SL1 to the one laptop, but even i think that might be asking for two much... the same for 3rd deck on the internal soundcard.... not happening)

Bloody cool my post got posted 6 posts above where it should have been..... or did i just go through a time space continuum....

Again.......... should have been after this one Rane Mod.....

djaleksei
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1. FX with midi control (per deck) (or VST Support with MIDI)
2. Auto/Seamless Loop, 16/8/4/2/1 etc.
3. Internal 3rd deck with beatsync to playing deck
4. Smart crates
5. Alphabetical sorting of crates or sub crates
6. Ability to select and move multiple crates at once

After we have these features, scratch live will be unrivaled.

TTM57SL wishlist!
1. when scrolling for tracks on the 57sl the list expands for like 2 seconds, then it shrinks on you again, very annoying. Needs to have a longer delay or a customizable #secs delay in setup.

2. SL1 mode for the TTM57SL

3. The ability to assign any control on the mixer, any function in serato.

Get a 57SL! Already has that sans midi control.

1. VIDEO (mpg, avi, xvid, mkv, whatever)

2. 1/1 1/2 1/4 1/8 loop effect in REL mode (like on the Pioneer CDJs)

3. Being able to look into 2 or more crates at once.

the top 3 things that would really be nice:
1- automatic loop. I used to have finalscratch 2.0 but turned to rane because of it's stability (FS2.0 crashed once, which is one too many in a club...) I was using traktor 3.0.2 and it has a easy to use option where you can simply click and the track automatically find the closest lap and loops itself non stop every 4 laps, Now that feature made it soo sweet it made it extremely hard to switch over to serato. I'm sure the good guys at rane will come out with that excellent feature soon if they haven't already (I'm still new at this)
2- a dual monitor support!! Yeah I know I'm dreamin in nerd land, but for home used it'd be sweet! you can see more tracks, make the main board bigger
3- ...Hmmm I dunno, diffrent background, screen colors... I dunno I could just think of 2 LOL

BIGGER Waveforms that can be displayed Horizontally across the entire screen, which can be resized vertically as well

1. MIDI
2. Crippled Mode (to set cue points and loops w/out the SSL box)
3. Crates linked to folders
4. 3rd INT deck

Not really in that order or any particular order for that matter... Just wants... ;)

If you have a widescreen laptop, increasing the audio cache will increase the horizontal waveform size to fill up the screen. Obviously not verticle waveforms though.

1. FX with midi control (per deck) (or VST Support with MIDI)
2. Auto/Seamless Loop, 16/8/4/2/1 etc.
3. Internal 3rd deck with beatsync to playing deck
4. Smart crates
5. Alphabetical sorting of crates or sub crates
6. Ability to select and move multiple crates at once

After we have these features, scratch live will be unrivaled.

1. Lossless codec support. Preferably FLAC, as it's a completely open standard, and therefore gives me more flexibility. Failing that, I could live with Apple Lossless.

2. Allow tracks to be sorted by more than one category. I want to view my tracks by artist, followed by title. I don't find tracks by album or track number, so I don't want my tracks sorted by those two fields.

3. Don't change the colour of a track until I either unload the other player, or (in the case of the last track played), close Serato. Oh, and give us the option to right-click a track and mark it as unplayed please.

These three things are my only remaining gripes with SSL right now. If you can sort these problems, SSL will, for me, be absolutely perfect.

How about prepare lists that can be loaded from and saved to file?

hell, i think its good as it is.

1. AAC file support
2. Soft links / Crates linked to folders
3. Midi

My wish list :)

you're a bad man. =)

1. 3rd virtual deck
2. Auto beat loop
3. Pan and eq knobs

I would love to have a "auto-shutdown" feature when building overviews. In that way, I could start building the overviews before I go to bed, and when the building is complete, SSL shuts down the computer for me.

1. Midi for all controls
2. Auto/seamless looping functions
3. VST FX for both channels
4. Smart Crates (drag and drop whole folders with sub folders and make an identical copy in Serato)
5. Ability to see another laptops track/waveform data from an outside source info for playing tag team Serato or four deck to laptop
6. FLAC and AAC support

1) prelistening turns yellow/red for a preset time(15-30seconds) and if you go past the preset time it turns green

2) close the playlist/crate menu so the main library can extend across

3) with interface disconnected one internal virtual deck that will play through my onboard sound card so i can setup cue points, markers and loops (phone calls faxes e-mail etc etc)

4) ADJUSTABLE FONTS SIZES

It would be nice to be able to prepare music for a specific deck.

1) Tracks shouldn't turn green if pre-listening, selectable time-based or load-the-other-deck-based www.scratchlive.net
2) Subcrates
3) NO EFFECTS/EQs/SAMPLERS

3) ability to turn off the beatmatching displays
3) support for the Allen&Heath Xone3D www.xone.co.uk (yeah I know it probably won't happen but wouldn't that be flippin' sweet) although maybe if MIDI were supported?

i take it you haven't seen the 1.7 betas. =)



midi support in general would cover that. i don't expect to see that appear until a 2.x release, though.

can you explain further please?

1) Flac Flac!!! Its about timeb this was looked at properly
2) 3rd Deck (wud have to be internal though unless a new box)
3) If files moved from location ability to show Serato where to find them (or is this possible already?)
4) BPM from Tags using decimal points (it doesn't like them now i hear)

oh yeah and very importantly 5) Ability to clear 1 track from green back to white if put on and decided not to play it then etc rather than have to clear all

Ability to pitch up the default 0 via the software so the decks can play something apart from -8/+8
e.g. change 0 to +8 so that deck speed range is 0/+16 instead of -8/+8

in addition to pong....

1. Tetris (left turntable rotate block , right table move block)
2. Snake (control snake with either table)
3. Super Breakout (control bar with either table)

hehehe

1) FLAC
2) 4 Decks with ability to swich which pair of decks should be controlled by the 2 inputs (And later on maybe a SL2 with 4 inputs)
3) crates linked to direcotry
4) Crossfade option with auto play
5) ability to slelect more than one crate simultaniously

Am I the only one who thinks the virtual vinyls on the screen are pretty much close to useless except taking ALOT of space on the screen for the important stuff like the track display. Their should be an option to unlock the view so that you can resize the apearance, just so you can minimize to the smallest possible the stuff thats not really of any direct use

1.- Ability to switch laptops without having to play regular vinyl or CD's.

2.- Auto/Seemless Instant Loops like on the CDJ 800.

3.- Save Set Playlist. SSL Can't record your set cause you're controling it from an external mixer, but at least it should be able to save your set playlist.

4.- Songs shouldn't turn green right away (when previewing them). We should also have the ability to reset them, or do we already have that?

5.- Right-click Controls for indiviual tracks while mixing. On other words, let say someone hands you a flash drive in the middle of your set with a HOT Song on it. You should be able to put it in your library, right click the track, and select from the drop down menu BUILD OVERVIEW, AUTO BPM, AUTO GAIN, MP3 TAGS, etc. This feature should also let you do this to multiple tracks at once.

I agree. I like the CDJ Display better. Maybe SSL could incorporate a CDJ type of Display that takes less room, rather than the virtual vinyl.

My top 2

1. Ability to listen, set cues, order etc tracks w/o the S-S-L box attached to it.

2. Allow the promised mixtape mode, meaning being able to use SSL *and* the ASIO devices at the same time, so you can record both PGMs postfader at the same time *while* using ScratchLIVE

I'm using Rapid Evolution software to detect the key of every song. It would be great if SL could display the key-tag along with the usual information (so I can sort songs according to key).

Just put your keytags into the comment field

Go into options and find the serato option. Writes key and keycode information to the 'grouping' ID3 tag, this can be used in SSL.

video

1. small sampler buttons for drops with the computers regular line-out
2. option to disable the beatmatch-displays

I like it just the way it is, reliable

If anything id suggest that whatever CPU intensive features are implemented are given the option to be disabled to keep things stable if need be.

I second that. Options to enable and disable certain features would be great.

1. Show the Mp3 bitrate in the browser

2. Allow multitrack recording of the two channels at the same time, saved to 2 separate files

New control vinyl with locked grooves controlling loops within SSL.

I also put this on the control vinyl topic, but i think it's such a great idea it should be here too.

Go me.

it's already there, just enable that column.

I think he means the import browser, when you click on import.

1. Video
2. Video
3. Video
4. More effects for the 57sl
5. Video

And info for the 57sl when you click on the "?" icon. It only gives keyboard shortcuts...

You forgot to mention video LOL

no video... its overrated.. turns your dance floor into zombies stairing at the screen...

I would like to see one deck being albe to be used without the sl1 box hooked up (not a third deck) to use for preveiwing tracks/ setting up loops and cue points without having to set up your whole system through the computers system sound.

Instant loops (1-2-4-8-16-32 beat loops) at a touch of a button

More Colored Vinyl control records in more colors!!!!!!!
^^Maybe custom designs (like the picture vinyl some of my EDM vinyl is in)......ok now im just dreaming!!

video. maybe not so good for the party
video. is THE shit for shows

i agree with you in all points

Im guessing that auto loop will be the next feature, I reeeeally hope Im right.

but serious, the display needs a facelift, the virtual record and song names on top are way too big

I think its video

IMO it would be a good idea to create a solid and useable plugin system (with SDK) so stuff like Video, VST, MIDI could be implemented as needed while users who do not need/want these features can keep their system sleek and clean..

I would like to see a feature where you can tap your bpm in serato and it will automatically change in your itunes folder, sort of vice versa, like how you create a bpm in your itunes, and if checked in your serato setup "read itunes library" it will show the bpm in serato. But i would like to do it in reverse by tapping the bpm on serato and automatically changing in your itunes as well!

i agree

if you set the bpm in serato, it writes to the bpm tag and itunes will display it after it re-reads the tag (by playing or viewing track info).

that already in 1.6.3.. iTunes just needs to re-read the tags in some way or anouther.
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Anouther thing i would like (wich i said earlier) is skinnable interface.. then we can chage the color of the program to whatever... or even make custom designs!

i think a colour-changeable design would be enough (like you can colour the record labels but thats a nice idea...

yeah possible colour changes would be pretty nice

Must admit - I think the best suggestions on here are limiting things rather than adding new features!

The killer feature for me would definately be to add the 'cripple mode' for 57/ssl-less setting up of tracks. One deck, no pitch slider, maybe even low bitrate playback on low bitrate tracks, as long as you can set your cues, loops, label colours and preview tracks to sort into crates without the default media player popping up over the top for every track you play....

The other thing I'd like to see is the option so switch off the beatmatching display to stop me relying on it when practicing. Still, that's nothing a piece of paper overt the middle of the screen can't fix!

Really? Before MIDI?

both are important, but

PLEASE, GIVE US MIDI (not shouting, just excited)

imagine the possibilities,
any midi controller, novation remote SL, Allen & Heath Xone 3D,

MIDI controllers is where its at, and Serato should really jump on this.

it can only benefit them , BIG time, in the long run

imagine being ablt to "map" any shortcut, function, etc, to ANY midi controller.

now that's some creative power waiting to be had

oh, by the way,

my Novation Remote Remote Zero is mounted in my rack, ready to map Serato,

i can't wait to change crates, scroll my songs up and down via endless knobs, changing pitch via sliders, volumes would be nice too, going instantly to any cue on both decks..

for those that have not seen this novation controlle check it out, it is AWESOME...

www.novationmusic.com

hope it's ok to post links to other products

last thing Serato, don't forget your "Automap" for this controller :-)

there are ways to use you midi controller with it now.... you just have to have a 3rd party program to map the midi controlls to keyboard keys..... not full midi support... but will still give you some use for your midi controller

Lets stick to the top 3 guys.

Normalizer to even out the irregularities of digital music recordings...

This sounds amazing in clubs when you've been playing all night - the atmosphere is electric as you can push the volume and clarity of the clubs sound system to the peak.

Yeah!

mexicannnnn

you want me to stick to my top 3 ?

no problem

1. Midi Support for Midi Controllers

1. Midi Support for Midi Controllers

1. Midi Support for Midi Controllers

oopss, i meant to # them 1, 2, 3

lol!

Yeah Midi would be good.

no, Midi would not be good

it would be GREAT :-)

-AAC support (including DRM)
-key correction
-Asio and Core Audio Drivers
-Split Cue for TTM 57SL

If you dont do this serato, somebody else will (look at m-audio...)

Maybe aac support, but don't count on DRM'd aac support anytime soon, if ever.



Key lock is already in 1.7. Unless you mean key/pitch shifting?

you think that m-audio is going to add split-cue to your serato-enabled mixer? =/

1) 3rd Int Deck
2) Moveable GUI
3) More access to free music

KKGO

more configurable faders.......xfader is to sharp/ plus the dip needs to be fixed

ROFL

DRM'd AAC won't happen until Apple license FairPlay. That won't happen any time soon.

I've been ripping my m4p's to cd (through itunes) and reimporting them. Use a cd-rw so that you can use 1 cd and not trash cd over cd.

** I would like to see support for more than 2 decks in SSL. Not sure how it would work and still be easy to use.

** I would like to see the layout a little more customizable. (e.g) make the font a bit bigger if you have a large screen.

Version 2.0, able to plug two SL1 in one laptop and have four decks visible......

1.8 needs a drag and drop sampler that plays out the line out of ya lap top ,a serato midi sampler that workss with the 99$ mpd 16 mpc pads!!! thats all i want for serato! and thats it im good after that!!

1 is definitely on the top of my list.

I like 3 too, itd be nice to be able to assign the filters to the corresponding kill buttons, high pass on the high kill (or low pass on the high kill). Maybe have it auto enter the fx group when a kill is pressed so you have instant access to the freq and mix settings, optionally of course.

flac/nero aac support

any sort of midi/rewire

option to have pitch carried over when using instant doubles.

and maybe an option to automatically turn on the x-fader reverse switch when input reverse is used. and mayyybe an auto channel swap option for the input reverse as well.

I'm happy with everything I have right now in serato. I'd like the ability to remove the waveform display.

1) Full Support for Digital Mixing (DJM-1000, CDJ-1000MK3, Digital Cables (24-bit/96k) )

(have to say only use the program for pushing music over the CDJs. But all connectors are analog cable.)


2) More Digital Deck Supports. 4 CDJs at least.

3) Customize Skin

4) Cusom Font Size and Type. !!!!!!!

1. MIDI Support.
2. Crippled Mode. Ability set cue points & loops without having to hook up the SL1.
3. Effects : Some basic stuff for the people that dont have effects on their mixer or arent able to pay another 500 - 1000 $ for an effects box. Im thinking simple effects like the one on my numark cdx which are pretty useless if u use timecode cd, since it distorts the signal :-)

this is a good idea...

Very good idea!

1. Create a Rane MP44SL, for 4 decks with SSL (using USB 2.0 or Firewire). Or a MP24SL.

2. Compatibility with the Denon HD2500 (native support) for an external controller with SSL.

3. Live Auto-BPM counting and a Build overview button with software and hardware on.

4. Print option for Crate Lists!

Number of tracks selected vs whole crate

How about an SL2 (2 channel) where you can daisy-chain an SL1, and the SL2 will carry the 4-deck info back to serato?

I agree with DJ Jinnai....print option for crate list as a matter a fact to be able to print your whole library.

Also if you could see total number of songs in library.

Oh yeah....Axledental Dj hit it right on the head with #3. live auto-bpm counting...good one my friend.

Another one from me would be asio drivers!! So I could use my SL1 for other things than just serato. Saves having to carry 2 sound cards.

A crossfade in auto mode would be great. For those times when a toilet stop is needed or even for early on in the night at a wedding etc.

Time stamp for when a song was last played.

Ability to print off a crate list

abillity to select multiple crates at once (for moving etc.) and exporting your serato library.

do you guys really need 4 decks? serious! How many DJ's use 4 decks? Not enough for them to put that on the 1st to do list

1. Crippled mode.

2. Tetris. w/ crippled mode support

3. Display Full screen wave forms on a second display
(so i can hook the second dispaly output up to a digital projector or big hdtv so the listeners can see the music being mixed as well as hear it, plus it will give people a sense of what sounds are being mixed and what are part of the same track.)

Yeah, especially when someone wants to see what songs they can request...just hand them over a notebook instead of your laptop.

Like a live-normalizer....that would work for me!

you can actually do this as an export through itunes.

it includes the following fields:

Name Artist Composer Album Grouping Genre Size Time Disc Number Disc Count Track Number Track Count Year Date Modified Date Added Bit Rate Sample Rate Volume Adjustment Kind Equalizer Comments Play Count Last Played Skip Count Last Skipped My Rating Location

No Popping when mixing.

File suddenly deleting.

NO BEATMATCHING! Come on now.....Their has to be some talent when using this software.

Drink holder.

haha.

LOVE SL!

USB DROPOUTS are really upsetting me. I went to better needles, now I am going to a better cable. Hope this works.

Definitely this...

And a fix for the loop lag it has on the Denon S5000...

Thats the thing... I don't really want to go through the Itunes Way.

number 3,please

as for the MIDI suggestion can somebody please elaborate for us how this would be used.. obviously it's a good idea since so many people suggest it but my only experience with MIDI controls is in music production and composition (Reason & ProTools) .. not with live DJing.. thanks!

Basically if you had midi it would allow for the use of an external controller eg DAC 3 or similar. Maybe not so handy for the vinyl lovers. But for DJ's who come from a CD background then it would eliminate the need for hooking up to a CD player in the club. Just whip out the DAC3 (or whatever) plug it into serato and away you go. It would be like DJing in internal mode but instead of using the keyboard shortcuts you would use the controller instead.

OR

If you had a mixer with midi facilities eg the allan & Heath, you could programme the buttons to control certain functions of serato eg use the wheel to scroll up and down track lists etc

the a&h is a bad example... the midi implementation on it is minimal at best...

an ecler nuo4 would be a better solution for what you're describing. 4 decks + a dedicated control strip for navigating the software.

Even the 3D?

www.xone.co.uk

that has to be fixed with a firmware update on your dn-s5000 (like the one they put out for the 3500).. its just like the way they use cues.. the audio curve thingy

just wait for 1.7. major response improvement for any cd deck.

Midi & Record your dj-set button =)

Check out DJ Enferno's set on Youtube to see what you can do with Midi. He uses the M-Audio Trigger Finger as well as some other gear that he has all set up to Abelton Live.

nope, they got that one right. =)

Holy Crap I would pee my pants if the Xone 3D worked seamlessly with Serato. Imagine walking into a gig with an unassuming little box and your laptop. I would seriously consider not carrying around turntables any more. And running it through Ableton? Good Night!

Xone 3d = cost way more money than I make at any gig....:(

it's worth it if you can do this:

Watchwww.youtube.com

to be able to sort comments/bpms/artist/title/etc indepentely

Thanks

I thought you already could (at least when i use it it seem i can do that)... Explain what you mean?

I think he means sorting by more than one thing at a time. Like sort by BPM first, then by artist.

ASIO and ASIO and ASIO driver for sl1

already comming in 1.7

konix, you are right on.....microsoft excel has this......say i want to sort artist then sort bpm then comments...what do you all think of this feature?

Hi
1 - total time for crates & subcrates
2 - saving crates as iTunes playlists (or to .pls or .m3u file)
3 - More advanced auto BPM option - at least recount or divide/multiply selected tracks.


and of course - ASIO
greetz

I think I would like that very much. No, I KNOW I would like that very much. Bump & cosign.

Great idea!!! I love the PnT options, def more of that ish. A 3rd virtual deck would be illin as well. The whole subcrate thing is key, I hear thats in 1.7 tho. Any ideas when the official version wil be released?

1- auto loops / fixed loops

2- auto loops / fixed loops

3- auto loops / fixed loops

pleaseeeee :)

scratchlive.net

plz autoloops !!! and plz plz plz !!!!!! STEALTH MODE !!!!!!

just buy the 2D then and use your existing mixer :)

www.skratchworx.com

a user customizable interface including a horizontal waveform for those of us who want see where the breakdowns are in longer tunes.

i48.photobucket.com

might be too advanced but...

Cuss detection? auto bleep as a feature when building overviews?

How about some freakin' Vista drivers already!

Linux please

1) MIDI learn
2) Coreaudio drivers
3) show only selected itunes playlists, or just organize them in crates/subcrates. I don't want podcasts and videos in my SSL library
4)make auto gain a little bit louder, or just make the master gain knob louder

AND PLEASE FIX THIS DAMN CTRL-Z BUG: www.scratchlive.net

1) HISTORY/REVIEW

- Why cant we save multiple instances of same song to a crate? [ex:if i use the 'heaven&hell' intro to drop into more than one record in a set, and i want to save that set intact... please allow that]
[or allow the review to be exported to a text file maybe]

- maybe include play data: time played, start/end times, pitch...

2) !!!!STEALTH MODE!!!! (co-sign spOOky)

- Right now Im using electrical tape :)

3) CRIPPLED mode

- that would address bad rca/ground/headshell scenarios


Great job so far, havent tried 1.7 yet, sorry if any of the above suggestions have already been included... I looked, but didnt see them.

how about just a simple running log automatically saves to the root of the system drive, possibly seperated by "session".

either straight text or comma/tab delimited, sorted by time played, with all the tag data, file location/filename, and length of time loaded (note: not length of time played, ssl doesn't really know that).

this would be easily manipulated in something like excel (or another spreadsheet application) to be able to pull out your 30-45sec brief listens and whatnot.

it should be easy to implement and won't add additional clutter to the interface.

crippled mode!!!!

Ability to read CD-Text!

Skins? (But that's just for posing purposes ;) )

Well since we have the official word on some features that are in the pipeline, I'll change my choices:

1. MIDI--I know it's coming in 1.8 but I want the easily implemented MIDI you find in Ableton LIVE. Someone mentioned "MIDI learn" above, maybe this is the same thing??

Check it: www.scratchlive.net

2. Crates linked to file folders

3. P'n'T

co-sign your co-sign, derby!

Especialy the point about being easy to implement/no additional clutter... seen MANY updates as of late, mostly big features being added. Thanks for your hard work, Serato Team, great job with them ALL; this would be simple and useful i think, right?

Please let me know if I'm wrong. I'd still be interested in the mechanics of it.


UH-OH: I now see that 1.7 edits multiple plays right from the REVIEW file... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE implement this 'session' idea - as now there is NO accurate record of play history, let alone a saveable one.

I still dont understand why this would be a problem. Ive heard there was a buggy 'history' feature in v1.5. Ive been suggesting something like this since 1.3 - and i think that was the only time they gave it a shot. The 'running log' would seems simple enough, even if its just in Terminal*... I'd be happy and I would shut up. :)


*Hmm, is there an existing way/hack to do this already?

Man i love Serato the way it is, but on the top of my wish list is a tail echo effect that is linked to the bpm, and the ability to rock video files.

yupz...live auto bpm and live auto gain.

also maybe a record button so we can record our set..

no offense, but people need to think about the way the sl1 works before they (keep) ask(ing) for this.

I know how it works man, I'm still one of those guys that are hoping such feature would be in future updates...dont be too alarm

the "future update" to enable that would have to be updated hardware in the case of the SL1.

the SL1 is not aware of upfaders, crossfaders, effects, etc. so there is no way for it to record your set.

a record input would have to be implemented in new SL hardware to enable this.

I want 1.8 to be able to tell the bar that i need another drink without me even telling it too (part of a cup holder feature.... :-P

Mark multiple crates with e.g. Ctrl so all files from all selected creates will be displayed in the track browser.
That would be great! :)

Man dj's are getting lazy i mean automix and now you want the software to order stuff for you...... sheesh

and censor markers

I'd like to see Serato build overviews a bit faster.

naming cue points
eq
skins

I want an animated figure who tells me things like "It looks as if you are mixing music. Do you want help with that?". It should be able to rock a crowd and make excellent music selections.

Id love to see these 5 things!!

1. the ability to save your setlists. Printable function to print or import you setlist/library to a word or excel spreadsheet.

2. Auto Loops 1/8 1/4 1/2 1 2 4 8 16 32

3. 5-10 sample drop buttons ie i'm rick james bitch or your in the mix with some DJ that would be amazing

4. number of songs in your library total like 88033 songs also an automatic double detection system like if you have 17 copies of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson lol

5. Crippled Mode would be great!!

good ones but number 2 is already been anounced (and its in 1.7 if you know how to activate it www.scratchlive.net
)

I would like to see the build overveiw thing allowed to be accessed with the sl1/57 attached (or at least be able to select auto bpm/gain for then you add the track to the deck and it builds the overveiw to detect both of these for you while you are playing.

The more I think about it, the number one feature for me is:
crates linked to folders.

linked how? do you want "static" crates built from folder contents or do you want SSL to parse an entire directory structure on launch?

the former you can do manually by just dragging a folder into the crate pane. the latter will likely cause extremely long launch times for the application if you have a larger library.

I would like it to be "active" or whatever you want to call it, as described in your second example. Maybe a compromise could be a manual operation you could select, like "scan directories" or something, that you could run when you've made additions or deletions from your music collection.

Almost... all songs from the folder and all subfolders will be squeezed into one crate, no subcrates are added.

correct, but you can build a hierarchical* view (with subcrates) manually.


*try that without spellcheck. =)

Yeah, right... I bought a computer to build subcrates manually. And then when I want to update them, update each subcrate manually. Yeah, ryte.

Just being sarcastic, derby, no offense :)

=)

Multiple views for Subcrates would go a little further, say you could have them arranged into Styles of music, BPMs, Keys, Labels Artists, etc.. kind of like a hierarchy sorting ability but in subcrates,

sort by label then by artist then by album

Now that you guys have mono mode set up and it has helped me tones there is one more thing I would like that would eliminate another piece of equipment.

How about a built in crossover on the software side?

I would love if I had my mid to high on one channel and my low on the other channel. This way I could just plug the higher to the powered speakers that and the lower to the amps for the subs.

Club DJ's wouldn't really care about this, but mobile DJ's would love it.

I would love to see AAC support.

My library is at 70,000+ songs. I've been DJing for 19 years so my collection has grown. I just bought Serato and began to convert my songs, but the quality just isn't there going from one lossy format to another. So unfortunately I have to wait and see what happens in 1.8 or I have to get another software package. I DON'T WANT ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT SSL!!!

Allow a user to scroll music with a larger/re-size-able album art view. Like used by iTunes 7.0. This would allow a user to simply flip through the album art pix like flipping records in a crate. Also allow for the album art to be shown next to a loaded track or a track that is playing.

The latest and greatest is actually eSata that supports up to 3gig/sec

an Expresscard interface has almost no latency and high transfer rate, i think this is where most soundcard interfaces will go in the future, firewire is actually a joke for audio, but it's probably the best we have at the moment

video
video
video

echey...check the vid in this post ;-) you'll be happy

www.scratchlive.net

I would like to see when the NEEDLE gets Dirty and you have to quickly hit INT mode. The program auto turns INT on.

That would be cool lol

no one seems to want to develop the express card format yet :(

I was looking for one because the Dell's that don't carry the TI chipsets for their Friewire port can't handle audio very well through fire wire.

I've ended up going for a USB 2.0 card - the EMU 0404 and i gotta say it's superb - but i admit i'd have loved to have been able to use something like the Emu 16/16 PCMCIA card in a PCIe card version.

1. Splice www.scratchlive.net This is a must for radio DJ's who do quick mixes.
2. Crossfade option (0-10 seconds) with auto play.
3. ASIO while Serato is Open.
4. MIDI
5. Ability to listen, set cues, order etc tracks w/o the S-S-L box attached to it. "Crippled Mode" where you can have one deck, no effects, no pitch, Internal mode only for setting cue points, BPMs and loops. with out the SSL box connected
6. PnT
7. Soft links / Crates linked to folders & Alphabetical sorting of crates or sub crates
7. Some EFX already
8. Sample Drops and assignable quick scratches.
9. Overview builds w/ Auto Gain & Auto BPM while Serato is plugged in.
10. Live Auto BPM while song is loaded.
11. Make an affordable RAIN MIDI controller for each turntable. No more getting confused hitting the wrong button on the keyboard.


CTRL T for Auto Loops is the SH*T!!!!

1. Fixed Relative Mode www.scratchlive.net

2. Record your set (not the audio, the actions)

3. Auto Playlist generation. (whoa)

1. Fixed Relative Mode

2. Auto Rel -> Abs switch when needle is moved to lead in on control vinyl

Can't wait for the day, i reckon Laptops should have 3 Expresscards and some USBs for controllers and things

Expresscard 1 - Soundcard
Expresscard 2 - Dedicated Effects Card
Expresscard 3 - External Hardrive

1. Video
i am a vj as well. so i like the crowds to watch the screen.

2. Skins
would be nice to change how SSL looks.

3. VST/MIDI
it would be nice to get the other software i have to sync with
SSL

Setup global control over the track information display. So you dont have to go to each individual crate and subcrate and select the information to be displayed individually. You would simply set this up globally and whenever you import a folder into your crates the folder will only display what youve setup in the global setup. This is useful when you have to rebuild your crates from scratch. The current process is monotonous.
Thanks

WaveRT support for vista???

1. Folders linked to crates or some kind of explorer (like a c: tree display). ive got all my folders organised and when i put loads of new stuff into various folders it means i usually have to import all the crates again!

2. Adustable/free pitch control - bring it on!!!

3. Ability to set it so that when you switch to relative mode and load up a new track WHEN THE RECORD IS STATIONARY it automatically goes to the beginning of the tune, i spend too much time fiddling with the mouse!

apart from that, i agree with some of the guys up here about video and effects creating unwanted complications and making the program too cpu-hungry. i think one of serato's best features is the fact that you don't need a kickass laptop to use it, video and effects would push the system requirements up like crazy. just my thoughts!

....and i forgot, please please please ability to have the crates automatically displayed in aplhabetical order!!!

I thought most PC/laptops came with one...???

CRATE REFRESH!!!

Yeap! I hate using iTunes with SSL. I would love for Serato to have a refresh button to auto sync the crates with the music folder in OsX. That would be sweet.

Crossfade 1-20 sec. on auto play for backround music/coctail hour

Alphabetical order option for crates!

Please! So all we have to do is touch the gain!

1 EQ Highs Mid Low per deck memorizing each songs setting




2 SMOOTHER WAVE FORMS new versions have been choppy bring back the smoothness of 1.4





3 THE ABILITY TO EDIT WAVEFORMS chop off those 1.8 seconds of your vinyl rip so it starts right on cue and you don't have to exit SL and put music in sound studio and chop great for making battle breaks! And routines

Rock that shit

Kid Who has got it when he says:
"1. Folders linked to crates or some kind of explorer (like a c: tree display). ive got all my folders organised and when i put loads of new stuff into various folders it means i usually have to import all the crates again!

apart from that, i agree with some of the guys up here about video and effects creating unwanted complications and making the program too cpu-hungry. i think one of serato's best features is the fact that you don't need a kickass laptop to use it, video and effects would push the system requirements up like crazy"

- An easier, less messy browser area, clear with larger fonts.

- A way of balancing the volume of all the various digital recordings. This is very important.

- KEEP IT SIMPLE!!! The more complicated, the more it will crash, press wrong buttons, waste time setting up etc etc. Keep it the simplest way of playing digital music in clubs.

I'd like SSL to remember the last key lock state.

Why should I activate it every time?

better yet, why would you want it on all the time? why subject a track that doesn't need to be keylocked to unneccessary processing and potential keylock artifacts?

Because you can always deactivate it manually.
But many would prefer key lock to remember its state.

Ive thought a third deck would be dope you could free up a deck to drop another track...

also id like to see new skins


and cue naming.....

keylock artifacts? That shouldn't be noticed within +/- 4%.
Plus, every time you pitch bend (even a little), it sounds ridiculous without Keylock. I'm not talking about you house/trance DJ's that mix in key. Props to you perfectionist.

Music is made not to pitch it at all, but since we are DJ's, Keylock for the world. I keep it on all the time. Remembering the last state will be nice.

unnecessary processing? Just like future added effects, if your cpu can't handle it, don't use it.

make custom mini keyboards,for each deck. and sell them at a low price.

That was one of my request LouisMarcos

11. Make an affordable RAIN MIDI controller for each turntable. No more getting confused hitting the wrong button on the keyboard.

I will buy two. I can also design the interface if Serato is interested. Similiar to how I did this www.skratchworx.com

1.7.1 Final
- The Key Lock buttons now remember their on/off state when you quit Scratch LIVE

Mother Trucker that was fast. Serato team ROX.

just asking for that your library can me sorted by example: artist>bpm>comments

1. Simple export of review to text
2. Auto update of new files when library is based on folders
3. Show song length anytime the song has existing overview already built, so you don't have to rebuild overviews when you re-add files or remake your recordcase just to see how long a song is. (I like to use lengths as a tool to help weed out doubles)

I would like to see "because it could be that im lazy"

A bpm consistency box... where you could select a desired bpm say 124bpm and when you load any track, the tracks get loaded at that selected bpm automatically for your entire set.

Wich would allow your Pitch Adj. to stay almost centered most of the time, still allowing adjustment.

How about a button that could be represented with an '=' sign, that when pressed in internal mode, would adjust the pitch to match the bpm of the opposite player. Sound like a bad idea? If you've ever had to pull off a mix in internal mode, you wouldn't think so!

ohh.. god.... this is going to start a big NO AUTO BEAT MATCHING/MIXING thread again

lol when i'm lazy i just visit a party as guest

no auto beat matching/mixing please.........
I don't want NO "dj" using scratch live

they can use other fantastic program


:-)

I don't think he means auto-mixing, he means letting serato initially adjust the pitch for you when you load the next song. That's not auto-mixing.

Forget i mentioned it... But we might as well have rane disable all functions that in anyway allow the dj to be assisted at any time, if thats the case they should remove the waveforms and cue points and i can go on.......but I understand we want to keep a high standard and Integrity for this product and im all for it...and since you put it that way, i do see what you mean.

p.s.

I was also a bit tipsy at my desk last night when i was brain storming, and came up with that thought..

read what i posted..... I said both..... im just saying that this is going to flair this same discusion up in another thread... sence most peeps get this confused anyway

kool

I'm all for it, if I don't like it then I wont use it the end.

EFX Please

Can we have something that shows where a particular track is on the HDD .. the file path. And also, which crate it is in, would be nice too :)

If a song is in a crate, don't you already know which crate it's in? Also you can show the filepath/location already in a crate as one of the columns.

I'd like to see the "added features" start to go separate from the essentials. I'm currently using 1.6.3, which is hardly my favorite, but I have to agree that, as far as handling files goes, it's the best so far.
If there's a way I could get some stuff that has been coming out and that I think everyone benefits from (new way to handle the timecode, better overview building) and leave out the ones that only matter to some people (auto-leveling and BPM detection, for example), I'd like that.
Why?
Simple. I can see the software getting more and more demanding as far as computer specs go, and I have no plans on getting a new one anytime soon.

i second this... i would like to see a feature where you could see what crates a certain file is linked to

1.8 should come with a little notepad so I can write down the phone numbers of all the hot chics that come to my venue.

Sweeeet!

Sampler

Speaking of having lists in Serato, someone mentioned on another thread to have a set list option instead of just prepare. And yes I understand what crates do.

Maybe a way to keep tracks in a specific order on demand. Click on an Icon within the crate, and poof, ready made set list. Different sets for different nights. (Obviously yoy put the set list together before you play.)

The only way to put songs in order now is edit the track name, and put a number or some thing in the comment area.

"Prepare" takes up time that you could be workin on cue points and places to drop in. Spend more time preparing the mix, Serato has already addressed that. I like the idea more than having a set list on paper of some kind of text that I have to minimize Serato to see. I don't even use set lists, but I probably would if Serato had this option. You'd have the freedom to use it or not.

This could be a drag and drop method and rearange at will, during a set or not. And you'd always have a set that you put together and know works. You can fine tune sets this way.


Put it on another drop down menu within the crate labeled "sets" ahhhh I love it, great idea musiclee. And woe to you oh closed minded ones, it would only improve your inabilities that you MAY have.

Don't keep from improving Serato just cause you might not have a use for something. Shit look at final scratch, you want to talk about things you won't use? (People where downing this idea on the other thread)

Another good one!!!

These are simple ideas that will not put more excessive load on the cpu.

Just because someone gets tracks beat matched doesn't mean they can mix. There is a difference. And It's not hard to look at the visual cues onscreen to figure out if your beatmatched or not. So wtbfd. Again, more time to find good cue points. And just because final scratch has it, doesn't mean it stays beat matched. You got to watch that booger or it'll slip right out your nose and cause a train wreck! (and no I don't use FS)

but I have

Nope. There is a column "#", if you click on it you can sort the tracks to your needs. That pretty much makes the need for a "playlist"... pointless.

yea I caught that from someone already. Sorry for the wasted space

FLAC and Apple Lossless support would make my day :)

I tend to organise my crates in terms of folders - so without backing up crates etc.. I can just drag and drop a list of folders into SL and I’m ready to go. This would be greatly enhanced by two new features:
1. Sub-directories create sub-folders when importing
2. Shortcuts can be imported into crates as a reference to the original file location
The second feature allows the same track to be put in multiple folders without needing to make copies.

Auto/Seamless Loop, 16/8/4/2/1 etc. !!!

thats already in 1.7(ifyou know how to get to it.... lol search for easter egg / cookie) but it will be in 1.8 without having to "Click Click Clickiety Click"

Still really want(and not sure if it will ever happen) syncing to a designated folder(s). So i can add/remove stuff, like how itunes users get to do it, but without having to use itunes.

itunes doesn't sync folders.

no, it syncs with SSL, so if i used itunes, and deleted ab unch of stuff from my itunes, it would sync with ssl. get what i mean?....

1. EFFECTS !!!!!!!!!!!
2. Longer mic sample time
3. a fix for auto bpm !! curently displays about half what it is (1.7x) - i dont use it , its just annoying !
4. detachable beat match thing coz i find my eyes allways looking at it !!
5. ability to change the tracks all back to white before a set (u migh be able to do this currently just aint found it!!) i.e make all your tracks white before a set so when u have played them they go green so i know what ive played coz i forget!!!

yup lol it did !!!

my 5 pence worth (assistance is futile, learn to mix 1st then master everything else) :P

click on review, then clear.

In 1.8, I'd like to see all the disastrous FuckUps that are in the 1.7's remedied. This past Saturday night, I made by hair of my chin!

uh, since many people haven't had (m)any problems, would you mind being more specific?

i have had no issues with 1.7.1 yet playing live.. had one issue building overviews where it said i had 2 overviews left to build out of a crate.. but they were realy all done

Specifically 1.7.0.
85% of my music would not play. The overview appears. The main waveform doesen't.
I rescanned my entire crates. Didn't make any difference. USB dropouts like crazy.
Before all of that, I noticed this shit! ........ all of my rock music was kicked out of the Rock crate (basically it's like literally throwing an actual crate of records out of a window).
So the whole night I'm just loading music one after the other til I loaded something that actually played, for the sake of keeping continuous play (russian roulette). It was pretty fucked up. Thank the force for alcohol consuming party goers.

I tried to reload 1.6.3, but no go (on a mac book pro). So now there is no SSL.

After I hook back up my gear, I'm gonna load 1.7.1 on my iBook and see what happens.

Oooops! I take that back, about the issue relating specifically to 1.7.0. It happened on 1.7.1 first (macBookPro). Then went back to 1.7.0 (macBook).

Lets stick to the topic:

Top 3 you want to see in 1.8
----------------------------

Who went off topic?

Anyone who didn't stick to their top 3.

Does anyone else like peach pie?

Ok, guess I'll oblige...
1. Make all cue points and loops visible at one time in the main waveform display (instead of having the loop show up as a green section, but only one at a time)
2. Maybe add an "undo" function to importing / modifying crates (eg - I imported like 1200 songs from an m3u playlist to the wrong crate. Doomed it beyond repair, gonna have to redo it from ground up). Shouldn't be too hard, from what I've heard this information only gets written to the file once you exit the program, right?
3. Some way to show absolute position under relative mode (in what part of the song you'd be if you were in absolute mode).

Two things I would like to see added in the future:

1) A way to print music lists and cd inserts using SSL (like I-tunes)

2) A seperate manual document that only details the changes to SSL (so I don't have to keep reprinting the whole manual and run out of printing ink- those colors illustrations are murder on my printer!)

You should be able to choose what pages to print on your computer.

Every new release comes with details about what's new and a change log of fixes and updates.

1 - ability to print entire library as well as crate/playlists

ability to show duplicates...something like itunes does.

As a house/techno dj i would realy like to se some improvement for looping. Like it is on Pioneer players ( 1 2 4 8 16 beat loops ). In serato it would be enough with 4 8 16 32 beat , automatic looping. Mark the start point , press nuber of beats you want to loop , and voila. It is so much easier then mark intro , mark outro. It´s a realy cool feature for let´s says some beats , hip hop or house loops. I use alot of extended versions of hip hop tracks ( funkymix , x-mix, ilhot mixes etc etc ). and it´s kind a cool to find a cool loop in one track , and realy fast loop it in another track , just by pressing the number of beats you want to loop, instead of putting markers by yourself. It´s not all the time you have that loop prepared , sometimes you come up with some crazy ideas when you play .) Other then that , it´s all good.

1) split cue
2) more effects
3) DJ remote, so I can freak girls on the dance floor while still DJing. (not practical, but would be cool)

thats already in 1.7.1 but its hidden (b/c its still in testing) look in the genral chat forum and search for Easter egg or cookie

I have changed my mind:

1. A stable version
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and this will be fine, too:

2. Tracks shouldn`t turn green if just pre-listening ( www.scratchlive.net )
3. better skipless mode ( www.scratchlive.net )
4. auto loops / fixed loops ( www.scratchlive.net )

I second that!

1. i would like it to dispense crown royal directly into my veins through the mic out of the SSL BOX

2. i want it to make all the girls tops fall off while in auto loop

3. i want it to automatically mix every track automatically and read my mind of what i would like it to play. Personal interface.

Surprise me.

I 3rd!

Mac or PC RussOne?

mac

Go figure, me too. Seems to be a finger pointing game goin on between Mac and Serato.

Menance, you on a Mac too?

By the way I don't not under any circumstance believe it's Mac. I've tried switching the ports cause everyone keeps saying there is an issue with one, but has made no difference.

do not believe, sorry

Menace

I'm on mac and 1.7.1 is very very stable for me. I use it 4 days a week or more with NO problems EVER! (that were not my fault that is)

except for the whole "everybody else with a music app having a problem with mac USB ports" deal.

also, macbooks running windows xp don't experience the USB issue.

it's an OSX USB implementation issue that will eventually (have to) be resolved on the apple end.

More stuff i'd like to see...

1) Option to alphabetize or rearrange crates.

2) HD scan for tracks IN Serato. Nothing like missing a song and trying to dig through 300 Gigs of music.

3) Export Review As A Crate for playlists. Even a simple HTML file to post on your website.

This on will prolly never happen...

4) "Instant Mix" Be able to link tracks together for dual play. EXAMPLE.
I wanna drop the instrumental of a song that's already playing. I've got the BPM set at the same speed, I drop the track into the other player and BAM! The acapella for another song goes instantly to player 2 taking out the original song. If I set this up right I could have a live mash-up ready to go in seconds. It would be like instant doubles but more like "Instant Mix". I dunno. Just a wacky though

#1, I second

#2, this is why I love mac for this one. Just click on the folder or drive all your music is on, and type in what your lookin' (even if it's an idea of) for in the window's search tab. Whalah!

Yes, Intel Mac.

I am not concerned about USB problems, though. I have problems with bad control signals now - which I don`t have with version 1.6.1 .

I'm going back to 1.6.1 as soon as I can.

Right now I use 1.7.1 for overviews and 1.6.1 for my gigs. I am fine with it. I just need to backup two ScratchLIVE folders now - one for each version.

it'd be nice to be able to sub-catagorize, like if i sort by artist, the ability to then sort artist by say bpm or album within the intial sort.

I Agree scratchlive.net

i'd like to see spotlight search for us mac users...
would be nice to search the whole drive instead of the selected folder! :)

I did already but I think it`s a kinda sad.

New features in new versions are worthless if new versions are unstable/buggy or the new features don`t work like they should. Serato should focus on repairing the bugs first. Otherwise these bugs will stay forever and Traktor could become first choice for DJ`s again.

At least Serato should think twice what to call a FINAL version. It`s really embarassing having sound problems with 1.7.1 in front of an audiance all of the sudden.

Not everyone experiences sound problems, and none reported this issue during the beta.

The problem was reported on February 3rd. That was before the final version came out.

thanks m8 mucho appreciado !!

maybe instead of serato having a mind of it's own, you have some processes/registry entries/ANY number of things that can go wrong with a clean install. I'm sure that 1.7.x is more cpu intensive when you have key lock on or something like that, bt it could be one of a 1000 factors that can effect any microsoft system.

yes but you know they can't work on a bug unless they are able to reproduce it.

they can wait for publishing a Final version, though

but alot of us dont have this issue... personaly 1.7.1 is very stable for me!!

Lucky you. Serato versions used to be good for everybody back in 2006, though.

As I said I`m fine with 1.6.1 - no problems at all. But if can`t take advantage of Seratos new features anymore and if the new Traktor Scratch hard- and software will work fine I might switch back. (I never thought I would ever write this.)

I just hope Serato will not become to Serato Crash Live.

Lol, i suggest trying it on another machine, it might be wipey wipey format time for your OS install.

There is always someone having problems. The question is whether its a SSL software problem or something different.

For me it`s obvious.

Well lucky enough you dont belong to the developers :)

you forgot "bug" between "the" and "developers" :-)

How do you know this?
I like how you take your general experiances and apply it to EVERYONE, EVERYONE was fine with 1.6.x now EVERYONE has problems with 1.7.x, maybe it's just you, or your machines, or a virus, or anything.....

or maybe not

I am outta here. Back to:

What do you want to see in Version 1.8?

I think you should get banned for that comment because thats a clear insult towards the developers.

Problems vary from computer to computer. I'm finding 1.7 to be the most trouble-free release yet for me.

yeah right, first don`t forget the smiley behind my comment and second would it be strange to get banned and getting a present from Serato for previous helps at the same time

it`s really strange that this came from you, nik39

where`s the exit from this dicussion :-)

Menace, ryte, yeah you deserved the bag. :)

Pete, can you vinyl scroll?

I fixed my car once...

1) Inflate-a-flat bundled with every new pair of control vinyl.

1. Sampler
2. VISTA Support
3. More Colors for the Tracks
4. Video :-)
5. Auto Save the playlyst I play

I Love My SSL ! ! !

Being able to highlight, copy and paste your playlist to say, like, Text Edit, etc.

Everything a dj needs is in SSL 1.7.1 now! I would like to see SSL 1.8 be less resourse demanding.

True dat! After all, I thought thats why the interface is stand alone. ..... and more stability concerning the usb dropout issue etc,. Then again, maybe these so-called issues will be resolved once Leopard is released. Hopefully!

Is it possible to create a Beat Lock mechanism for serato, where once you have the beats lined up and you have them playing at the same tempo you can hit the beat lock button and it will hold the beats together.
For instance if i have track one playing and i have track 2 cued & ready to go, now soon as i drop in track 2 & i see the beats are lined up i hit the Beat lock button and it holds the beats together.

I am not looking for some AUTO MIX BUTTON, because that would detract from the skill of beat mixing. But in my experiance(7yrs) of using vinyls i have never had the fluctuations i experiance with FS, yes there are fluctuations while using 12 inch vinlys but no where near as bad as the fluctuations that i experiance in FS.

All i am suggesting is once you have beat matched the 2 songs using the good old ear method--
(which is how i beat mix)
(some of you might use the waveforms to beat mix i regard this as cheating and only 1 step away from a auto mix button, Djs of the old skool who never had a visual aid & relied totally on their ears, in my opinion this is how DJ's should mix)
--you then hit the beat lock button and it holds the beats together.

I dont believe this detracts from the skill of beat mixing because you have already done all the work yourself to get to this point. All it offers is peace of mind especially if you like to do long mixes, which is something i like to do. There will be those of you out there who will disagree but if thats the case then simply dont use the Beat Lock Button, it should be down to the INDIVIDUAL user to decide!!!

In reply the above comment, that is almost like an auto-mix scenario.

Why would you want it? If you are good enough to get it to a tight enough level, you won't even need to press a button to prolong it, a simple nudge of the record here and there will keep the mix going strong.

From a turntablist point of view i can see where you are coming from (eg if you have say 5 decks and you were making a tune with all of them), but realistically this wouldn't be the case.

Essentially you're asking a pitch lock to stop the pitch DEAD, with 0 fluctuations? There is one flaw in that it is night impossible to keep the beat held dead on, it will inevitably be 0.11111% off, therefore a LOCK would be useless, as you would encounter the same drift as any normal turntable.

The other method of 'beatkeeping' again, in my opinion is cheating :).

What would i like to see in version 1.8?

No bloatage, lets remember what SSL is for, its to replicate vinyl records END OF. Some comments are amazing asking SSL to do their laundry for them. I don't need samplers, loops, effects. If people were that serious they would invest in a mixer/hardware that would encompass all of those things, serato should be kept to pure, solid vinyl emulation. ;)

Hopefully when P&T plugin arrives, 1.8?

I would like a pitch range option to change the pitch range, imagine -6% to +6%, amazing accuracy!

My $0.02 :)

Let's face it, Automix is coming, sooner or later.
Why not, really?
You can always choose not to use it.

Uhm, no. Someone from the mods wrote that automix is not something they want to add.

(some of you might use the waveforms to beat mix i regard this as cheating and only 1 step away from a auto mix button, Djs of the old skool who never had a visual aid & relied totally on their ears, in my opinion this is how DJ's should mix)

Phatblankz,

they never had a beat lock mech. either....this comment is so contridicting. we all need to move with the times and stop hating on new technology.

lets keep it real and keep ridin in our horses and carriges :)

you can stick to your old beliefs, and we all know it takes more skill, but it doesn't mean it's something people that just jump on SSL are going to teach themselves, they will use the aid of the visuals.

Do you still cook over open fire with using sticks to start it? Do you sit at home in the dark because those new people with electricty are cheating? sometimes things change, even if you hate it, or think it's for the worse it's jst the way it is...

At a certain point it will just make sense to implement auto mix.
It's just not that time yet.

dj skraps i fail to see how i am contradicting myself. care to clarify your comment...

they never had a beat lock back in the day because they never had final scratch(thats a no brainer really) - if they had both i think it would be safe to say they would have used both. Its really up to the INDIVIDUAL.

Please read what i am saying carefully - i am NOT looking for a AUTO MIX, AUTO BEAT or a AUTO FUNKY MONKEY BUTTON.
All i am suggesting is once you have beat matched the 2 songs using the good old ear method you then hit the beat lock button and it holds the beats together. I beat mix using my ears, having spun nothing but 12 inch vinyls for 7years I had no choice….

The Visual aid is as just as good as a AUTO MIX, AUTO BEAT or a AUTO FUNKY MONKEY BUTTON - y did they put that in then in the 1st place if we are all such bloody purists.

Technology is there for a purpose, lets embrace & make the most of it – lets give people a chance to make up there own minds whether they choose to use some new gadget or not.

If we all stayed purists where would human evolution be???

If something really irritates then just dont use, its as simple as that.

hi. interesting argument here ^^

anyhow, back on topic... changes for SSLv1.8. as i've just posted in another thread:

BIGGER ACTUAL/REAL-TIME/CURRENT BPM READOUT. Here's a jpg I made to illustrate.

www.3amrecords.com


...thanks. carry on. :)

auto-mix, nah...but beat lock, i can see being implemented.

and i wouldn't mind if ssl DID do my laundry too...as long as it's optional and doesn't take up much resources =P

How many times is this argument played out over and over

I've been djing over 20 years and it makes me sick to hear people asking for beat lock and auto mix!

maybe you are only getting older.


lol

I think if you want beat locks buy a set of CDJs the pitch doesn't fluctuate

I want 1.8 to turn the eq's for me.

oohhh you know what they say about sarcasm, but seeing that we all being stpuid here, i want version 1.8 to..

.wipe my ass
.download my porn
.bye my weed
.roll my spliffs
.make my MDMA
.jerk/suck me off when i need it
.auto find all my tunes in soulseek
.spit out money when i need it
.make sure there is a good swell when i go surf
.bring out all the chicago house DJ's to South Africa
.destroy oil
.destroy the Bush Family/ actually lets do this properly - destroy AMERICA
.heal the world
.promote peace love and happyness

i can go on & on - Serato team please do all the above for version 1.8

ps: can you make Mandella president again - he really is a good guy :-)

oh & short cut keys for all the above will be sweet!

CTRL B+J

1.where are the customisable keyboard layouts???
or at least a more symmetrical option to match the vertical ergonomics of decks/mixer etc,
also..shorter short cuts!..ive got enough to be concentrating on with decks and cross faders to also have to try press and hold ctrl/option and keys, why could make it so ctrl/option only has to be pressed once to activate-so to set loop point i would press ctrl then 1 instead of both at once, quicker one handed operations-maybe this could be highlighted on screen or only last for 2 secs..

2.which leads me to the screen layout in general
-imo it seems that a load of space is being wasted by the currently loaded track info
i can hear whats playing so i dont need it in massive writing-meanwhile i get to fiddle about with the mouse trying to click on tiny buttons-why not put the current loaded track inside the virtual decks and fill the space around the decks with some bigger buttons?


other than that no complaints...1.7.1 works a charm, auto bpm did not work on alot of stuff but the tap counter is great..
great stuff altogether:)

We want efx, some live efx
We want efx, some live efx
We want efx, some live efx
Snap a neck for some live efx.

I like the bigger buttons idea..... there too small

Asking fot trouble to have Serato do it for you, I'll be surprized if they do it. If they do, look forward to bugzzzzzz.

1. Vista support
1. Effects (Filters like Xone mixers)
1. Midi
1. Auto Loop

1. Midi sync support via USB on 57


2. sampler/3rd internal TT on 57


3. VST support


(and better beat-matching views)

That'd do me.

But better loop controls would be nice. eg time buttons like on an efx but for true looping rather than echos

1. Find the cause of drop outs on mac's(not many different spec's except for ram and software. Do barebone tests with different ram levels)
2. Better external hardrive support(some people have drives that sleep... have serato auto touch all drives to keep them active
3. Maybe a start from scratch, relay the foundation, sometimes its necessary to patch the holes that already exist.

I would just like flawless play with any system but at least macs since they have about the same specs!

Absolutely

What HeaVyy said. Can't be more simply put. The USB dropout issue is straight up insurgency (Shit kills me, especially at the gigs that count).

again, i thought that the USB issue on macs was determined to be a USB implementation issue on the apple side.

also, regarding external drives in windows, you should be able to turn "powersave" off on the USB port/drive to keep them active.

BUT some drives habe it built into the firmware of the drive..... on those drives you cant change that

still would love to see support for 3rd party VST-plugins

But if Serato could keep it busy every few minutes with a 'blip' of some kind, it won't go to sleep.

i would love to see some 1.sound fx
2. upload your own sound fx

Actually Derby, I stand corrected. It is an apple issue. Something I find Dumbassed on they're part. I certainly can't repeat what was explained to me (I'm not well versed verbally in Tech), but I do know it has something to do with power distribution amongst the ports. An issue I'm dissappointed to see associated with Apple.

Hey Jay, see if this helps any......
www.zshare.net

I would like to see:-

*Hi and lo Eqing (2 or 3 band) settings that are saved to the track like the gain setting.

*Vinyl sticker image (circular) on the spinning vinyl for each track.

*MP3 Repair function for bad mp3s that sound ok but for some reason show up as corrupt.

*File organisation system that could automatically remove dupicate files and prompt the user when there are files with very similar overviews (i.e. two files that are the same track but different recording qualities and/or bitrate.

*screen resolution support for displaying on HD LCD TV screens

*row colour (basically, the colour u change the spinning disc to for that track also changes the row colour for that track so its easier to spot than a little dot). This might look a bit silly though so i'm not sure about that one.

I don't think thats asking too much although i doubt I'll see many of these features till ssl v2

Ok i'm new to this forum. I would like to see one thing on 1.8! I use MixMeister beat analyzer, it often doubles my BPM's on slower hip hop tracks. I have to go in and manually change them. I would like to see a little button or something next to the BPM's that divides the BPM in half. Thats all I need.

This is entirely a function of the video card on your computer.

integrated recording options

Some good stuff here.

My list:
1. As everyone has said - MIDI learn as found in Live 6 (just in case we want to try out other hardware)

2. A Rane MIDI controller that is the BEST for SCRATCHING on the market - I think Rane can do that somehow. Records are out, but they still have the best feel. (so we can ditch the 300 pound DJ setup)

3. Backup your work everytime you move audio files to different folders in your browser, change tag info, etc. - ie Read the hard drive like it reads iTunes.

Yes sir that's some good stuff cMo.

I wish the crates recognized the songs in the folders. If the song is there in the directory folder, it will show up like windows explorer. If it was moved, it won't be there. No more backing up folders every time. Especially for the DJ's with a new iBook that goes to sleep when not in use. No more automatic deletes.

auto tagger so ath you can change file names to song names in an automated process.

More accurate bpm counter!

read hard drive like iTunes (thats a must for me)

oh and to provide a hot chick to stand by me every time i use it telling me how sexy i am and that im the best dj she has ever seen!

What I would like to see is the ability to use the loop function in the "abs" mode.

Also the abilty to customise the size of fonts in the track listing. On My Laptop the fonts are small and I have to get close to the screen to see what tracks to play. Adding some basic effects like doubling reverb, etc who be wicked

the only way i really see this working would be if you try to loop in ABS, it automatically switches to REL. if not, your ABSolute needle position would not match what was playing during/after the loop.

A field for the "key of the song" for more harmonic mixing.

good call!

& A feature that reads the key of the song would be awesome!

defintiely would love to see MIDI added so i can use a controller with the program, would make serato such a beast if it was added

more control over pitch in internal mode, say for example you loop a snare and then want to make a roll out out of it by pitching up so it makes like a roll, to do this atm you hvae to flick through the different speeds & increase pitch, without a midi controller , no midi yet in serato :( ,it makes it very difficult/near impossible to switch back to normal speed quick enough

protect crates when 'protect library' is on.


www.scratchlive.net

use the grouping tag for this.

Ok I'm going to change my top 3 to:

1. More effects / features for TTM57
2. Smarter Subcrates (that link to folders and auto pick up folder changes).
3. Ability to set cue points ...etc without being connected.

An acurate way to test "wow and Flutter"

Unless the loops had an adjustable cycle. That would give the song a real lengh everytime.

wow and flutter is usually caused by a non-centered spindle hole or a warped record.

in the case of SSL, you should be able to notice both of things without 'testing' for it.

1. Support for FLAC
2. The ability to play FLAC files
3. A wider variety of Codec support, such as FLAC

1. Support for AAC
2. Support for AAC
3. Third deck
4. Tracks do not turn green if you are pre-listening

I definitely need an option to lock/unlock cue points and loops once they're set.
(One mistake of pressing the wrong button in heat of the moment, and your setting's gone.)

A way to sort songs in playlists by overviews built/unbuilt

Save time trying to sort out building overviews for tracks i need to build

you can lock loops now by click the loop's number in the selector...

In cases that you wonder if your crazy or drunk or your tables are just fucked it would be nice to have a quick reference to look at. In the caliaration area would be nice.

Yes... Please!

Yay... that too

i want that serato refresh the folders without delete it and later re-insert it. it is very sorrow.

Free Porn!

what about looping in ABS in a similar way to the way censor does reverse? Ie it jumps back to the proper position when you stop looping. With accurate beat locked loops that would be pretty cool, for example if you looped bars 3 and 4 an extra 2 times it would play:

1 2 3 4 3 4 3 4 9 10 11 12

which might be interesting :-)

I'd really like to see an option for cue points to do this.

So, without having to double, you could drop your favourite sample/break/bar of a track for as long as the cue button was held down... and then when you let go of the cue it jumps back to the previous part of the track, just like the censor.

That's very possible and would definitely be cool. Actually the Digitech "Time Machine 7.6" and "RDS 2001" performed that same function. Almost every West Indian DJ sound system was equipt with one way back. It was hot shit in terms of real time performance then.

1.i48.photobucket.com
2.i48.photobucket.com
3.i48.photobucket.com

FULL COLOR BAR FLAGGING!
PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice idea

i like that

Album art on either side of the display decks. (to the left of the left deck, and to the right of the right deck) I'd like to see the artwork of the music that is currently loaded for each deck. not just the little picture on the bottom left for what you are browsing through. The visual connection between the art and the music is something that is pretty potent and I find that I miss that in this digital world.

my $0.02 :-)

NEW IDEA!!!

When alphebetizing, ignore 'The' and start alphebtizing at the second word. I saw another unrelated software do this, and thought it was a good idea.

Now before someone else says it, I do try to omit the 'the', but don't always catch them.

btw - DJ Cue, I like your idea w/ the art.

Corresponding tracks on decks are highlighted file browser in either blue or orange and tracks are able to be chosen via seperate midi knobs.

Knob 1 - Left Deck (Orange)
Knob 2 - Right Deck (Blue)

Scroll file browser by turning, push in to drop on deck

++++++++++++ everything to be midi mapped to different controllers

.wl file support by this editor: www.audioease.com

without the option to convert wl to mp3 of course

itunes behaves this way.

thanks for the link, that will be really handy

yes waiting for it a while now

haha wouldnt that be great!

Only if you have the ability to turn it off!

As not all of us play in places where radio edits are acceptable.

I still want my cuss words!!!!

the peeps around here dontlike hearing the edited ver of songs... BUT the A.L.E. (thet Alcohol Law Enforcment.. the guys who bust clubs for selling underage and other Alcohol, drug, and prostitution issues) will fine you for playing tracks with too much cussing.. they will over look the occational shit, fuck, or god damn.. but much more then that.. the club get a fine and the DJ or MC get a Fine and posibly goes to jail for the night

closest thing to auto censoring...

scratchlive.net


the LC (aka Liquor Commission = ALE)here are just as strict, if not stricter. a fellow dj i know had his record CONFISCATED. yep, after hearing the offensive song (tupac - how do you want it) with swearing in it went over to the dj booth and asked for the record and confiscated it. my friend went to court or some sorta hearing for it and apparently it's within their jurisdiction to do that here. try as he might, he never got the record back either.

hot cues for loops so each loop has its own key and are nameable

I've never heard of liquor enforcement policing music? I hope Pennsylvania's LCB doesn't get any ideas.

I concurr!

Isn't that freedom of speech violation? WTF!

havnt you heard? the constitution has been abolished

Damn, Kinda makes me glad to be British!
None of that over here yet!

better on the fly looping like in traktor!

- Tracks shouldn`t turn green or come in the played list if just pre-listening.

- I'd like autoplay to swap between 2 decks, and crossfade.
Just set to autopilot, and have the crossfade set at 15 sec.

- Have a automatic crates that have the most played songs.
If we put in 100 in the setup it will include the 100 most played songs.

I dont know if anyone said anythin about this..but how about adding two more lines in the back end of it..so we can use 3 or even 4 CDs at the same time, like 2 Records n 1 Cd player or vice versa!!!

Sounds like you guys just need to get Torque (no offense intended)!

Hmm....I'm gonna guess it's been suggested or discussed no less than 20 or 30 times. The search box is amazing. Give it a try.

Hi Guys! definitely Serato is missing:

- for beat juggling in rel mode: having the same track on both decks, both the control record should be on the same postion which means that marks on both the records get synchronized(identical synchronized marks as it is on the screen)
- A SMALL PHRASE SAMPLER such as the one in Alcatech's Digi Scratch!!!
- scroll trough covers view as it is in the new i-tunes version

peace, Dooby

You can do this already by holding both control vinyl markers in the same position and then jumping to the same cue point on each virtual deck in Serato.

have you used that with LARGE lib? IT SUCKS ASS... if you do it with small lib its great.... but when you get into a large lib seaching like that slows to a crawl and iTunes hangs up every other min while it loads more covers into ram.

But how to achieve this while playing?

Well you'd do it on one deck first and let it start playing, then quickly cue up the other day before you start actually juggling. It works for me pretty well and I don't even juggle very much.

I would like the Serato team to take a small pause on new features, and make all the great features we have now run using less computer resourses.

.....True dat, True dat!

Actually, if you look back through both its history and these threads, this is "Team-Serato" priority numero uno.

As frequently as upgrade versions have been released in the last year, they would be much faster and more frequent if this approach was sacrificed.

If resources were not a main concern and standard at Rane/Serato, SSL would never have been been developed and released by them in the first place, and it would not be lableled as a Rane/Serato product. (As is currently the case with most sustainable product in the industry. A natural evolution, when you think about it. If the product cannot compete up to its expected and established industry standard, it will not exist for long.)

Trust, if it's a Rane/Serato product, and it's available to the public, the resources/lag/CPU questions have been visited repeatedly in R&D in the very least, and proven in final release for all practical purposes*.

*This statement is based on corroborated current and evolving research and cross-comparison of available industry product as of this writing.

For me it`s not a resourses question - it`s rather a question if new features after 1.6.1 (Mac)ruined SSL`s stabilty or good sound during DJ`ing.

they didnt mess up the stability for me or sound bad either.... 1.7.2 works GREAt and sounds GREAT and i'm sure that 1.8 will be the same with new things that peeps have been asking for

This feature has existed since v1.3:
scratchlive.net
...is that what you meant?



I think Serato wishes to have bad files/specs/reports sent here:
scratchlive.net
...MODs/Anyone, is this still the case? Has this changed?



Some users have suggested the following:
scratchlive.net
and
scratchlive.net (not sure if there is a PC-equivalent app)

1. AAC Support, and protected AAC support.

2. Auto/Seemless Instant Loops like on the CDJ 800.

3.- Save Set Playlist. SSL Can't record your set cause you're controling it from an external mixer, but at least it should be able to save your set playlist.

4.- Songs shouldn't turn green right away

I'm big on item 3.

i like it!!

Ooops, I actually forgot my #1 Feature Suggestion: I would like the Serato SEARCH function to act and react in the same way that iTunes searches.

If you search in iTunes, the browser window will show all the items in your search query, as well as the tracks below. It helps manage the searches much better and makes it easier ( I think) to find the exact song you want, quickly, in case you don't know the exact title of it.

Thanks.

Rock on fellow DJ's and Scratch Live techs

I save all my playlists. Drag the review list into a new folder.

heres a small feature suggestion, functionality that utilizes the 'scroll' mouse button. i use a logitech mx revolution with the free scroll so it would be handy to scroll whatever list is focused wether it be the Genre, BPM, Artist, Album, Song list.

thanks for letting me put in my 2 cents, keep up the great work, great product.

hmmm....... my scroll wheel on my logitech works fine......Is that what you are talking about? I have the mx-518, mx-500 and an MX-900 Bluetooth optical andthe all work GREAT with SSL... but then again.. I dont use the Logitech Software controller for them.. i use a 3rd party one... the Logitech Controll center is known to not work right with other programs.

1. extended usage of artwork like farm1.static.flickr.com It would help to get the vinyl-crate-feeling back.

2. Selecting multiple crates in the cratelist or genres or BPM's in the browse-view. Would help finding stuff, you could select a range of BPM's or different kinds of "dance"-music.

3. Disabling parts from the GUI (like the spinning records, or the "beatmatching"-part (I don't actually look much at it while spinning, but it would give me more space when looking for songs. Or variant, => at least disable those things when interface is not connected, so there would be more room for the tracklists and a better overview when you're organizing. (as an addiction to that, allow playing of the songs on some basic internal deck or on an external application, I really don't know tens of thousands of songs by heart, you know)

4. Saving playlists

The only problem I see is that there is no artwork for most of my 12's, only a black sleeve with a sticker. And two thirds of my CDs are Promo's or monthly subscriptions that don't have art. I know I'm not the only one who will not be googling thousands of album arts.

Yup, I'm with you. I wish there was a simpler way to get artwork. It sucks that you can only get the ALBUM artwork. What about the maxi-single artwork?

No, you're certainly not the only one that doesn't like to google for these things. But for your 12's you can easily turn this into an automated process by photgraphing all your sleeves, batch-processing them with photoshop or something and then you only have to name them. And for CD's you can download most artwork automatically.

And for your promotional stuff... myes, that's right, you'll probably have to wait until it's released publicaly. But i also suspect that within 5 years you will probably recieve your promotional stuff digital on mp3 or something (cheaper and easier to distribute) and that most of them will have artwork since it's much easier to insert something.

But on the contrary to you, my collection contains only for 1/4th black sleeves. The rest is something original or a sleeve from the label (e.g. positiva) which is enough for me to recognize. Which is also a possibility, use the label-logo as artwork!

It's like tagging your files. Once you have done your collection, it's just a matter of maintenance, and updating the new stuff which is much less work.

I guess thats down to how much effort you'd wanna put into that kinda thing. Personally I actually take snapshot of my records with a camera and pop the memorycard in for transfer, usally while digitizing those tracks. I guess some would think of this as waste of time, but personally i find it a lot more easy/nice/creative .. to able to dig through covers during a set.

For my black 12"s I normally just take picture of the label instead...

So Im all for a better "crate feeling".

please dont gripe at me, but im not sure if this has been posted yet! I would like it if you can just drag a folder as a whole into another section.

I don't quite understand, please elaborate :o)

for example if you have a folder on your hard drive that you want to copy the whole thing currently you would have to drag each file one by one. it would be nice if you can just drag the whole entire folder. do you get me?

1. Lossless
2. GUI (since now there isn't any)
3. no more pinks (resolve the file not found issue)

& why don't the promo labels actually go the extra 3 inches and add overviews, art, official bpms and accurate titles for the tracks so that they are represented correctly and saves the DJ time? It makes their brand better!

Just my three demands:

1. play drm songs bought at the itunes shop.
2. automatic loop alignment to 32,16,8,4,1, whatever.
3. bring absolute and relative mode together. Allow looping in absolute mode, allow setting cue points. Go to first cue point or track beginning when the needle is set to the beginning of the record
4. A third deck would be nice. This would mean that two decks use absolute/relative mode and one internal mode
5. A small sampler with sampler browser. Samples can also be loops so I need a small browser to browse over my tracks/samples and choose the loops from the tracks. This sampler should be assignable to one of the decks so that it can be controlled via vinyl.

they should do that. thats what i would do if i was a rep.

Yep, I abolutely feel those too! Especially 5, and make it like a crate with a shortcut or something, so you can do a quick scratch and go back to the previous track you already queued up or something

I'd like to see a "Loop Lock Function" So Whenever I throw on a track it is set to ON. Helpfull for live mash-up and quick mix DJ's.

Also, The constant "Loop ON" feature would be great for moving to the next loop so I don't have to turn it on for the next loop i want in a track! Grrr!

co-mutha f(*&^n sign

1. Implement Artwork in browser and for loaded tracks: farm1.static.flickr.com

2. Better search/browse functions, able to pull tracks in within a certain genre, bpm range & key, with multiple selection of crates, playlists, genres, BPM, KeyKode, Artist, Album etc, (eg. the whole lot..) Could be implemented like iTunes smartlists: farm1.static.flickr.com and/or Rapid Evolution: farm1.static.flickr.com

3. Add Field/Tag for Keys: (ie keykode) www.mixshare.com

4. Enhanced Record Flagging Feature (MORE color/Clearer): i48.photobucket.com

5. Leave "green" tracks in review crate after Serato is closed down/crashed, for later saving to a crate. (eg when forgetting to do this after a busy night, or system failure)

OK, I know i've bitched about this before in this thread, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE for the love of God, make the size of the adjusted BPM (bpm after you adjust the pitch) BIGGER.

This is obviously an exaggeration, but I was hoping for something along these lines:
www.3amrecords.com

I love Serato, and I spin 4x/week with it. Unfortunately I've gone BLIND doing so, and without any joke, I'm getting Lasik now cuz my eyesight has gone to shit. In short, yeah, please... make the adjusted BPM bigger.


OH! And since we're already making suggestions, is there any way to have new versions of SSL be able to track when you change the folder the original mp3 is located in on your hard drive?

Thanks in advance.

agree

I would like to see an integration of beatunes color matching with SSL. its hard to have both on the screen at the same time even with a 17" monitor, and its cool to be in the middle of a set and use find a color match in Beatunes and then drop that.

1. A simple Jukebox feature that can crossfade into the next song. This would be great for us mobile DJs who have to play dinner/background music between our dance sets.

2. Relative mode loops and cue points to work in Absolute mode.

3. NO BEAT MATCHING! I think this would take up extra processing power, not to mention new djs who will never learn how to mix with their ears.

then it wouldn't be absolute

I'd like to see the CD time code to be changed. When using scratch live cd's, the beginning position for cd is 15:39:71 remaining. It should be changed to 15:00:00 even, or any "solid" number, really.

Also, the control cd's should be expanded to 3 tracks, Track 2 can be to scroll through the library and track 3 could be to scroll through crates. I've got close to 50,000 tracks, and the first 20 seconds of track 2 just aren't enough to get through it all.

BUT! I would like to state that Scratch Live is the greatest thing to happen to DJ'ing in quite some time...possibly the best thing to happen since 1983.

electra you know u can do this your self.

Dude excuse my ignorance but you have my interest picked up! I mean in 1983 i was like 7 so what happened then that you think may have been better than serato? (By the way im not being an ass im genuinely interested)

sample banks

more skin

depends on if its male or female skin :-P

Go for female skin :P That would be nice :P

yeah i agree.....

nicky pm me what u want exactly. I'll do it for u.

Not sure what I can do myself...if you could let me know, that would be great! Thanks.

THC_Electra

pm me specifics on how u want the timecode layed out

now that vista support is here, can we get split cue for the 57? and at least a couple of new fx (bit crusher, i guess flange)?

and fx on/off via footswitch, pretty please =)

Ok, just dreaming here, but... "open source access" to the DSP effects? It would be really cool if you could program your own Fx. Kinda like "this is your input-register (audio-in), this your outputregister (audio-out), these are your input-variables (knobs and buttons on the TTM57), and this is the place where you can insert your algorithm. GO!"

That would be cooooooooool... :o) *drewl*

Dreaming and drooling, hmmm.
Possible Solution: Pillowcase sale at Target?
So, does that mean this should be in Help, or in Tips & Tricks?

Watchwww.youtube.com

Seriously, though. Good Suggestion - would be amazing in general, especially if not just limited to the 57.

+1

When playing in auto function it woud be nice that SSL cross fade between the 2 decks. Before SSL i used BPM-Studio, BPM-Studio has that feature. I used it to play backgroundmusic when the people are eating on a party

Most of the time I play wedding party's etc

for background music, i don't use both decks. i just use a single deck with the auto feature on in internal mode.

but yea, having an adjustable fade between songs (with option to turn on and off) for background music would be nice. just for internal mode.

Yeah I'm with you guys on this

Agreed

I'm totally happy with 1.7.2, only thing that I want to have in future release is to turn of tempo & beatmatch displays... I don't need em so why should I watch them...total waste of space.
And we would also benefit havin larger waveform display, wouldn't we? ;)

I'm going to change them again to:

1. Better sounding key lock
2. More effects
3. Ability to set cues w/o SL1

1. Split Cue
2. Skinz
3. Sort by (aa) then (bb)

LooooooooL
*cough*
Oooh, just been able to breath again, especially after that youtube, hadn't seen that one. Hilarious!

But it would be cool to put together your own Fx-algoritms in Assembly or C and being able to use the DSP of the 57 for this. It would certainly beat having to buy a 250 dollar DSP-EVM or designing one yourself and having to figure out a control interface for it.

you know what i wanna see in version 1.8?

how bout it's release already...
nothing more than that

anyone else?

well they can prolly release something and call it 1.8..... but unless they add things then why do they need to if they just released 1.7.2

i want...a function that lets me use the fader and volume sliders on my ttm-57 to move the mouse arrow like a trackpad (so I never have to touch the laptop again!)

i know its crazy, so am i

well, apparently they have some beta 1.8, as they were showing it off...demoing it..

why i need 1.8?

one word,

MIDI

TTM57SL
1. Allow the promised mixtape mode, meaning being able to use SSL *and* the ASIO devices at the same time, so you can record both PGMs postfader at the same time *while* using ScratchLIVE

Has this been done (request by nik39) for the 57SL?

Nope on the 57. It's possible for windows users when NOT using SSL. On Mac even that is not possible, you'll be able to record PGM1 and Main (wth?!)

Cappinkirk: I don't think it's very realistic, but that's some creative thinking there :oD. I would like to add a second suggestion. Why not use the P1 and P2 as mouse-controller, in a kind of "etch a sketch"-way :oP (remember? www.amazon.com)

From what I can tell, ScratchLive is single threaded, or if it is a MTA. Its working on one processor. I got 2 processors and now that quads are out I assume one day quads will be out for mobiles. Might be an idea to fully utilize all available resources (processors).

sort out the pioneer cdj1000mkiii/serato skipping problem now.

Linking crates to folders is the number one thing i wanna see

As many people have mentioned already in this topic...
I think some means to save/print/recall what you played last night/week/month would be AWESOME

one step on from this would be some sort of "suggested next track" based on the data from the saved playlists.

Also, it would be REALLY great if there was a drop down of the last 5 or tracks that have been queued up - sometimes I will choose one to see how it sounds then change my mind... and then change my mind again. would be great to just click 'Back' or 'Forward' instead of doing another search of my library.

Other than that I'm extremely happy with the way the app performs!

The ability to set the time for the track-end warning...

Agree, both on a track basis AND global basis

Agree, and why not keep all played tracks in the review crate even after serato is restarted, with playback date & time (clock) stamps for the tracks...

Agreed for both.

1. Splice www.scratchlive.net This is a must for radio DJ's who do quick mixes. On the DN-S5000, this feature was known as SPLICE.

It's where you can skip a certain portion of the track seamlessly. You can skip:
- Skip to the end of the song for quick mixes. Great for Radio DJ's.
- Skip cuss words
- Skip long ambient music with no beats in trance music
- Skip a certain verse you dislike
- Skip right into a loop.
- You wouldn't have to edit your library of songs you want to quick mix.
- For practicing, you wouldn't have to wait to the end of the song before you can mix again. <- My favorite. I love to mix non stop.

2. Crossfade option (0-10 seconds) with auto play

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why do we need something that tells us when the bar is full.... if you look up from your computer you normaly can clearly see that the bar is full ;-P

What i realy need (and i hopoe that will be in the software soon)

More (longer) track view.
It should be perfect when we have 1/2 of screen with the running track. and the other track the other 1/2 part of the screen.
I like to see more time in big because the smaal overvieuw of the track is not easy to view.
So you better can expect the break ore other changes in the track.

1 = longer view in the bigger track run view.
2 = direct record from normal vinyl track on pc.
3 = saving mode of playlist songs each set.

1> increase buffer... Make them horizontal and they are plenty big!!!
2> its already in SSL where you can record your normal Vinyl to you PC within SSL
3> yes would be nice to add

dont get smart with me sonny-jim... lol

"TOLD"