supacuts Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 If you had a specially-modified mixer and turntable with crude "polygraph pens" attached to them and some paper feeding though (perhaps with lines that denote bars on them), would one not be able to decipher that information and learn scratches from them? Think of it like a live "TTM" writer. Or am I still drunk and that is a shit idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rasteri Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I've thought about doing this but electronically, using a mixer with MIDI-crossfader-output and timecode records (as well as some sorta timecode decoder). It'd be fairly simple to hack it together using bits of xwax and stuff. I ain't gunna do it though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supacuts Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 I ain't gunna do it though. I totally respect this attitude and it is one I live by! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rasteri Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 To be honest actually, this would be quite a useful tool in many ways. You could use it to teach scratches to other people, to analyze your timing and accuracy when cutting, to figure out exactly what it is you're doing when you invent a new combo, etc... Hell you could even have it go the other way and use it to edit mistakes out of your scratching (like you can edit midi notes played in on a keyboard). I could totally hack something together but it's a couple nights' work, and it'd only run on linux coz xwax is linux-only. If I could clone myself and have one copy of me do this and the other work on the faderbox etc then I'd totally be up for it, but I only got so much free time. Maybe if enough people requested it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfsop Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 There used to be video somewhere on DV or another place (yeah, I know: Great help!) with someone scratching and a program calculated the TTM directly from the audio signal. Maybe someone else knows more about it..? Found it:http://www.digitalvertigo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=33437 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rasteri Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Wow that's exactly what I had in mind. Shame it's not been updated in 6 years... http://www.skrasoft.com/soft/TS/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Symatic Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 i think the rane 62 and ableton would let you record transcriptions of your fader and record movements maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rasteri Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Fader yes, record movements no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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