Scratch Live is a

vinyl emulation software A close-up of a time-coded vinyl record Vinyl emulation allows a DJ to physically manipulate the playback of digital audio files on a computer using turntables as an interface, thus preserving the hands-on control and feel of DJing with vinyl. ...

application created by

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

–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 Phase Linear was an audio equipment manufacturer founded by Bob Carver and Steve Johnston ...

Serato Serato (stylized in all lowercase; ) is a music software company founded in 1998 in Auckland, New Zealand by Steve West and AJ Bertenshaw. History West and Bertenshaw met in computer science class at the University of Auckland. When West created ...

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 signal (signal processing), digital form. In digital audio, the sound wave of the audio signal is typically encoded as numerical sampling (signal processing), ...

files using traditional vinyl

turntables A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration Waveform, waveforms are recorded as correspond ...

or CD players via special timecode vinyl records or CDs. The product is discontinued and has been replaced by Serato DJ.

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* {{Official website, http://serato.com/scratchlive/ Acoustics software Audio mixing software DJ software