Digital vinyl !?

mule

Yea I think vinyl is here to stay, but not in the way you are used to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEGjbrjszrw&feature=related

kinda cool but round about way to get where you are goin.

honda cber

not really.... serato and similar have been around a bit. actually, it works pretty well, but as you would imagine, it can glitch. the reason, you see, is so DJs dont have to lug crates of records. while most things seem to have gone the way of 1s and 0s, the DJ scene still loves vinyl. in fact, in some circles, you immediately lose cred if you show with a CDJ or just a lappy and ableton (or some other live sequencer). this just allows for a bit of trickery, as well as seamless integration with aforementioned applications..

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phuz

This is really meant for DJs only. No "audiophile" would really consider this, since all it really is is a method of playing digital files. You don't get the "benefits" or sound quality of vinyl, you're limited to the quality of your medium and digital source which is usually mp3 and a laptop.

I have a couple of DJ friends who use it and say it's a lifesaver, especially since airlines started charging $50 per bag of records. Not to mention the ability to just carry the serato system vs. 4, 6, or 10 heavy **** record bags around to gigs.

mule

its kinda interesting, the way I understand it the vinyl has a digital time code cut in (not audio) and it is oriented to the time code on a mp3 for scratching and looping.

So it initialy makes you wonder why not just get denon cd decks, but if you think of the really cool part, old school guys like gang starr and probably stetsasonic and what not would have a band lay down tracks and get a lp cut just to scratch their own beats, but with this setup you could lay down your own tracks, record them, have the mp3 to scratch and loop your own beats instead of digging vinyl.

Its a totaly round about system but I like the finished product

I also read some where that technics made 10,000 of these decks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8KdTyYDEc&feature=related

and sold out in under 1 year, thats cool.

phuz

The serato/final scratch records do have an audible tone on them. If played on a normal deck you hear what seems to be a solid tone, but it's a series of very short beeps/tones that help the computer track the time of the digital file. Think binary. Ones and zeros. On and off. Tone on = 1, tone off = 0. This tracks the digital file, which is also ones and zeros. Pretty cool technology if you ask me.

CD decks don't feel anywhere near the same is vinyl when working with them. It would take a long time for someone used to vinyl on SL1200s to adjust to using CD decks, and then one would have to re-adjust to new CD decks as upgrades and newer models come out.

This is partly why the SL1200 and it's variants have been the standard since the 70's, and why nobody has been able to get much of a chunk of that market share.

I wouldn't say it's a round a bout system. It cuts out the middle man and the need and cost to have dub plates or masters cut, as well as the cost of moving and caring for tons of records.

hearingimpared

Digital to vinyl has been going on since the late 70s probably even before. I have several, several copies of digital vinyl LPs and most sound pretty darn good.

honda cber

hearingimpared wrote: »

Digital to vinyl has been going on since the late 70s probably even before. I have several, several copies of digital vinyl LPs and most sound pretty darn good.

that isnt what we were referring to, HI.

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