Scratch Live is a
vinyl emulation software
A close-up of a time-coded vinyl record
Vinyl emulation allows a user to physically manipulate the playback of digital audio files on a computer using the turntables as an interface, thus preserving the hands-on control and feel of DJing with vi ...
application created by
New Zealand
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based Serato Audio Research, distributed by and licensed exclusively to
Rane Corporation
Rane Corporation is an American pro audio equipment manufacturer. Located in Mukilteo, Washington, it was made up of former employees of Phase Linear Corporation, and started out with products aimed at small live bands. They now carry many pro ...
.
Serato
Serato (stylized in all lowercase; ) is a music software company.
History
Serato was founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Steve West and AJ Berstenshaw, who created software that changes the tempo of a recorded track without changing the pitch.
S ...
was first known for its
Pro Tools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-productio ...
plug-in,
Pitch N Time, which was sold predominantly to the film industry.
Scratch Live allows manipulation and playback of
digital audio
Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical samples in a continuous sequence. For example, in CD audio, sa ...
files using traditional vinyl
turntables
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
or CD players via special timecode vinyl records or CDs.
The product is discontinued and has been replaced by Serato DJ.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://serato.com/scratchlive/
Acoustics software
Audio mixing software