Matt

sounds a bit cheesy on paper.

Practically you'll need some kind of midi controller too... indeed. I am looking into this too.

and sl1 will be supporting video... so i can get a rodec after all!!! really great news from gzmo

its a winter vomiting disease.

yeah your probably right the loop roll thing, is that like the thing in traktor- i've always liked that the problem i have with serato is it is so inaccurate in calculating bpm's quite often the autoloop function cuts the loop wrong. so from having a perfect blend, autolooping one, you then go out of sync.

surely they will make you buy the 57 to do this i saw a second hand one go for 750 the other day. madness. apparently there;s a bit of software that does tracklists for you already, having an inbuilt one is cool- typing up 6 hour set playlists is a bit of a bind!

I've noticed the Scratchbox is out there for £572 new which in purist terms is what i need However the gear monkey inside me also wants to use Video-SL such a dilemma

i took me a while to stop being shit on it, about 18 months maybe? some might argue i haven't actually achieved that yet

i've just watched serato (second hand) go for £340 inc postage. so where is the cheapest for a new 57sl?

Times have changed though. That's coming up to 6 years old now! I should put that on Youtube really just for posterity. What happened to C4 and Biba Lau? I completely lost touch with biva lau after a kut above the rest stopped happening. C4, was he from Hudds, the first guy on? he was tight. doing then what I'm doing now, lol. meanwhile then I was str8 looking terrified. i agree times may have changed but all this dirty electro beat / double time scratch ish is played. the techniques then are still dope

I was watching the leeds battle vcd a couple of weeks ago, I prefer sinical's routines on there to this. lots of disses, halftime chasing and shit, it had pure attitude.

am i right in thinking you don't have to use a killer antivirus too? i fancied getting an asus eee atom with linux but i can't run serato on it. the idea i had had was that because linux is much less resource sapping than xp it would allow me to do more with the same spec. alas..

make sure you daisy chain out of the house mixer in that case. hopefully matt nice will buy my serato in the new year and i can get the 57sl, if I mug a few grannies on pension day

was that matman and wooze? I'd been out for dinner with my missus and was suited and booted but thought fuck it and mat put me on the guestlist for it. went into that backroom and there was about 10 people or something standing in front of them. one kid kept saying to the missus "these guys are amazing" and it was pretty surreal. they were hella tight, but the place was falling apart and there was no-one there. the promoters must've paid a fortune doing those nights. the problem to me was the residents weren't good nor were they established enough locally for people to be interested in what the flaredycats were doing. I've had weekly residencies and its always been on the cards that mid month venues would be quiet, and even though I tried to prepare to it being quiet I've still found it a little soul destroying. in such cases i always find myself getting more experimental with what I play and try to view it as a 5 hour practice session, doing more juggles, cutting stuff up, mashing stuff together. When there are people there I've always tried to find the balance in keeping themusic accessible without going down the root of playing straight classics / party hiphop. I've not always succeeded but on the flip side when you do have a room full of merry people dancing away I find it quite easy to sneak stuff in that they're never likely to have heard before but still bug out to. Some of the worst gigs have been birthday parties, one where all they wanted was "smooth rnb" which I have no idea nor desire to know about. A couple of months ago I had to cover at a girl's 18th birthday party. on paper I think, cool, 18 year old girls. then I get into it, playing funk, disco and party hiphop , and after an hour someone comes up and asks for something "we know" then reels of a request list of shit I don't know. I need to learn to be slightly more diplomatic and tell them to fuck off in the nicest possible way, instead of engaging them

I find it easier to do it by ear. I have tried using the waveforms but sometimes Ifind the waves look lined up but the beats are clipping. i do like the feature when I'm well in a mix in a club and the monitors aren't great though.

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i can't sell til I get my NYE gig out of the way. cheers for the offer, I will give you a shout unless I get a better one. Edit, dood, I think I might get a beter offer, cheers thou laaa http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SERATO-SCRATCH-LIVE_...p3286.m63.l1177

£900 is too fuckin much imo. i might flog my serato and use that income to offset some of the cost. how much does a second hand serato hub go for?

he still does the odd good track this break up is probably 4 years late for their legacy

postscript it was my antivrus. which was strange cos as far as I was aware i didn't have any

cheers!

9 hours a day is for pussys it depends on how busy I am. If i've got a lot of stuff on quality time with the missus takes precedence. generally I probably manage 8-10 hours a week, probably 3/4 of that will be cutting drumming or juggling. really ought to be much better than I am by now. hmm

what are the advantages of variable bit rate?

that's the nail there steve, ta is that gapless as well?

howdy chaps, already got a shareware version of winlame, which allows me to bounce the wav down to a 128 kbps, but was looking for something that would do the above any pointers?