Serato Scratch Live 1.9 Easter Eggs – Third Deck and Space Invaders!
If you’re using Serato, you probably already know that Serato Version 1.9 is in public beta. As of this writing, it is currently in Public Beta 2, which historically will be followed by Release Candidate 1, 2, then the actual release of 1.9.
On the Serato Forums (and other DJ forums) there has been a lot of discussion about the Easter Eggs in Serato 1.9. The first is supposed to be much like the Pong Easter Egg, only with Space Invaders, and the second Easter Egg is supposed to be a third deck.
I could care less about Space Invaders, but was excited to hear about the third deck. I’ve wanted something like that for a long time – I mean, Traktor users get 4 decks, what about us Serato guys?
Well, after much searching, I discovered that these particular Easter Eggs in Serato 1.9 were a complete hoax and do not exist………BUMMER!
I’m sure since 1.9 is such a HUGE release/upgrade, there will be some Easter Eggs, but as of right now, nobody has found any.
No easter eggs? Think again! lol
isnt serato coming out with a new scratch live that has 4 decks? bummer because your gunna have to buy the new interface to support that…another 500 hollers (=
Personally I don’t own any DJ software, as yet. Though, I’ve looked at them all.
I was dumbfounded to see neither Traktor or Scratch have 4 deck capability. Although, it looks like the biz, Abelton is far too complicated for my simple head. Easy for likes of Sasha and Freemasons etc. !
Quite often (and, this is an old 4-deck turntable habit), I’d have two tracks sync’d up perfectly then, I’d use the 3rd deck to float an acappella over the top. The 4th deck would sometimes be used to sync a percussion track to the mix or some light scratching effects.
In the old days, I used to turn up to clubs with a 3rd deck & a Revox B77. A lot of my old personal edits (as well as copies of big name U.S. DJ edits) were on 1/2 inch tape (before DAT, before CDR). I realise, these days, most of audience can’t tell if you’re playing 320k mp3′s, vinyl or cd. But, I can hear it! So, I prefer to take the high road and use 16bit 44.1Khz PCM WAV (my vinyl rips are 24bit 96k – ouch!). Thank god for Spinpoint 1.5 TB drives and eSATA connections!
Please post news/confirmation on this 4-deck software. If it’s going to be another year before this surfaces, I’ll wait it out.
what about the ‘trainspotter mode’ ??
click in the BPM display, then press A, then M.
Hides your track names from prying eyes