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Scylla wrote:

jam1 wrote:I've been using Serato now for quite a while (after a good 10 years of vinyl purism...) and it's absolutely amazing! I'm just wondering how you guys set up your library? I make a new folder for each release I purchase... as you can imagine, it's starting to get a bit messy

Firstly having a external hard drive here is key. Not only does it keep your laptop running fine but its easy to play your tunes on anyones computer just plug and play.

Set up folders in your hard drive ie. dubstep,Techno,Dnb, only put tunes of the same genre into the specific folders... easy to find this way

Open Scratch live and create a crate for each genre (theres a little crate icon in the bottom left corner looks a bit like a cardboard box) name accordingly

in serato click on files and find your hard drive (E drive ect..) click on the folder you made earlier (dubstep, dnb, whatever) each tune will come up by track title so find the song title you want to add

Highlight the track, click and drag it into one of the crates you made on the left handside. (you have to do this everytime you add a fresh song to your hardrive)

Now every time you open scratch live all you have to do is click on a crate and all your tunes will appear in order (that is if everything is labeled correctly)

I know this probably sounds Like common sense, but i hope its helpfull

I've been using Serato for nearly six months, I've figured out how to make crates...

I have a 'D&B' crate, a 'Hip-Hop/Other Beats' crate and the rest is just dubstep in various forms. Are you saying you only have your tunes organised by genre? If I'm buying 3-10 releases (on average) a week, in another 6 months it's just going to be impossible to find anything.

i have my main genres set up and add to them ass i go.

then whenever i'm playing out i set up a crate with a selection of what i wanna play.

i.e "ragga-fucking-jungle" which has all of my ragga jungle (funnily enough) and a selection of some old school stuff that'll go with it.

but i find that the search bar is pretty good most of the time. when not using that i'm dipping into the most recent stuff i've been buying, which tends to make its way into my most recent playlists.

though i'm the sort of person that waits to see how people are reacting to the song i'm playing before choosing the next one, and through years of youtube houseparty djing i'm pretty good at just plucking a song title out of my head!

i find the history search is good too, sometimes when i'm just having sesh at home on my own and i find something that goes together well, can't remember it when playing out, jump on the history search and wham, its on!


serato is SICK! never looked back!

I've used serato for years. Software is solid and has never fucked up on me during a gig. The developers do a good job of holding back any features until its stable. Great service if u have any problems as well. Do it you wont regret it.

traktor scratch pro > serato sl3

cannot stress this enough, especially with the half price sale at the minute.

TSP shits on SL3, if you don't agree then you're obviously ignoring the facts, go look it up on the net. so so so much better, you'd be a dingbat if you spent more money on a lesser product.

gwa wrote:traktor scratch pro > serato sl3

cannot stress this enough, especially with the half price sale at the minute.

TSP shits on SL3, if you don't agree then you're obviously ignoring the facts, go look it up on the net. so so so much better, you'd be a dingbat if you spent more money on a lesser product.

explain....

yeh please explain why TSP > Serrato

I used Serrato SL1 for a bit, thought sound quality was a bit dirt, especially on + or - 5% timestretch. Also, it would never hold its pitch, tho when i did some research I found out this is likely because of the control vinyls made at that time, holes were not drilled in exact centre.

I'm gonna be picking up either TSP or SL3 soon. TSP attracts cos its cheaper and the mic input and little controller would be great for house parties / dirt raves & djing and producing while travelling. However I have seen TSP fritz out a few times, it seems to be have low tolerance for shitty needles. I have my own needles (shure whitelabel - highly reccomended - just dont overweight or u'll wear them out in half an hour) so not worried about that.

Serrato tho has Serrato bridge, and I produce and remix on ableton, so could work it into a live set.

If SL3 really has better algorithms and quality, thats gonna clinch it. I'm not convinced by the fact that it is more popular and costs more. Part of microeconomic theory is that people perceive higher priced products as being more expensive, as having more value. So a higher price itself is a selling point.

However I do love producing while travelling and carrying 2 soundcards would suck

AAAARGH>>>>>.......

I have an SL1 (bought around two years ago) but want to upgrade to the SL3. I also started using INT mode exclusively a year & a half ago. And this fall I picked up an Akai LPD8 trigger, and took a little time to set up two sets of programs (you can have up to four).

Program 1: assigned effects on/off to the drum pads and the knobs control the effect parameters.

Program 2: drum pads trigger auto-loop rolls, makes for glitchy effects.

I highly recommend the LPD8, especially if you were thinking about getting the Novation Dicer. The LPD8 is less expensive (was $70 at Turntable Lab in NY, where I bought it), and it has knobs, which you can do more with than just pads.