The Serato crew are in Anaheim right now, as you probably know, for NAMM 2009. The first day was full of pretty kick ass announcements (1.9, Video-SL) and cool new stuff from other companies.
The ever serious NAMM huddle
Read on for a bit of a low down and some photos.
The announcement of 1.9 seemed to go down a treat with some great new features included in Scratch Live. One of my favourites is the SP-6, or the sample player. Finally, a way to play my many foghorns on my radio show. Or, if I'm feeling really skilled, I could layer another song in through there. For those wondering what it will look like, take a squiz at this:
Scratch Live 1.9 SP-6 Sample Player
The quick-keys for it should be the bottom row of your keyboard, which on my computer is ZXCVBN. If you have a foreign keyboard that doesn't look like mine, it will still be that bottom row.
The history function will come in handy too. Instead of losing your review when you close Scratch Live, SSL now saves your playlists and can tell you what song you played, on which deck, for how long and on what day. One of the things I like about this is that if you just listen to a track, and don't actually play it, it will show up grey in history, instead of green, so you'll know what you actually played (instead of what you played amongst a bunch of tracks you tried to cue). You can name and rename them as you like, as well as export them as a .txt, .csv or .m3u. Yussssss!
LIVE FEED. Good golly miss molly. This is going to be crazy, there are some unbelievable things you can do with this. It's kind of taking the mic record function quite a few steps further. You can stream live audio to a selected deck, and instantly manipulate it. Reeeeeemiiiiiiiiix.
Another big one, of course, is Video-SL offering support for the SL 1 and MP4. Everyone who has wanted to have a go at video but couldn't afford the TTM 57SL, can now go crazy with Video-SL 1.1. Well, not NOW, more in like two weeks. Early February.
The new version of Ableton Live (Live 8) looks seriouuusssssllly cool with a new looper, more effects and online sharing. Particularly online sharing.
Bill really liked the APC-40 from Akai, specially designed to control Ableton Live!
Sam really liked Maschine from NI - "a combination of hardware and software that has a variety of features designed to appeal to both fans of the classic drum machines and grooveboxes of the ’80s and ’90s, and ultra modern sound-manglers alike." I'll take photos today and post them up.
The Rane Booth
Setting up the Serato Booth
Dinner at Downtown Disney
There'll be more updates from NAMM as the days go on and I will try and update as I go. If you plan on coming to NAMM this weekend, Serato has booth number 7010. Come down and say hey, I'm there all day! Props to Nathan for the photos (thank-you driver!).
The Serato crew are in Anaheim right now, as you probably know, for NAMM 2009. The first day was full of pretty kick ass announcements (1.9, Video-SL) and cool new stuff from other companies.
Read on for a bit of a low down and some photos.
The announcement of 1.9 seemed to go down a treat with some great new features included in Scratch Live. One of my favourites is the SP-6, or the sample player. Finally, a way to play my many foghorns on my radio show. Or, if I'm feeling really skilled, I could layer another song in through there. For those wondering what it will look like, take a squiz at this:
The quick-keys for it should be the bottom row of your keyboard, which on my computer is ZXCVBN. If you have a foreign keyboard that doesn't look like mine, it will still be that bottom row.
The history function will come in handy too. Instead of losing your review when you close Scratch Live, SSL now saves your playlists and can tell you what song you played, on which deck, for how long and on what day. One of the things I like about this is that if you just listen to a track, and don't actually play it, it will show up grey in history, instead of green, so you'll know what you actually played (instead of what you played amongst a bunch of tracks you tried to cue). You can name and rename them as you like, as well as export them as a .txt, .csv or .m3u. Yussssss!
LIVE FEED. Good golly miss molly. This is going to be crazy, there are some unbelievable things you can do with this. It's kind of taking the mic record function quite a few steps further. You can stream live audio to a selected deck, and instantly manipulate it. Reeeeeemiiiiiiiiix.
Another big one, of course, is Video-SL offering support for the SL 1 and MP4. Everyone who has wanted to have a go at video but couldn't afford the TTM 57SL, can now go crazy with Video-SL 1.1. Well, not NOW, more in like two weeks. Early February.
The new version of Ableton Live (Live 8) looks seriouuusssssllly cool with a new looper, more effects and online sharing. Particularly online sharing.
Bill really liked the APC-40 from Akai, specially designed to control Ableton Live!
Sam really liked Maschine from NI - "a combination of hardware and software that has a variety of features designed to appeal to both fans of the classic drum machines and grooveboxes of the ’80s and ’90s, and ultra modern sound-manglers alike." I'll take photos today and post them up.
There'll be more updates from NAMM as the days go on and I will try and update as I go. If you plan on coming to NAMM this weekend, Serato has booth number 7010. Come down and say hey, I'm there all day! Props to Nathan for the photos (thank-you driver!).
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