Serato Itch 2.0 - Coming early April!

[DJ Nada]

Sync is for babies, learn how to beatmatch...

I just bought a V7 and was shocked by how well-built it is and how great it sounds. It is a fantastic bit of hardware.

What exactly are the new features in Itch 2.0? I love how I'll get this FOR FREE!! Haha, traktor users feel like saps yet?

[kooper1980]

Sync is for babies, learn how to beatmatch...

I just bought a V7 and was shocked by how well-built it is and how great it sounds. It is a fantastic bit of hardware.

What exactly are the new features in Itch 2.0? I love how I'll get this FOR FREE!! Haha, traktor users feel like saps yet?

"sync is for babies" isn't even worthy of a come back. You just enjoy your free upgrade to 2.0 and I'll enjoy happily paying for my TP2 upgrade.

You're happy. I'm happy. Who gives a fuck whether one paid for an upgrade and one didn't??!! I DON'T!!

[space monkey]

Sync is for babies, learn how to beatmatch...

I just bought a V7 and was shocked by how well-built it is and how great it sounds. It is a fantastic bit of hardware.

What exactly are the new features in Itch 2.0? I love how I'll get this FOR FREE!! Haha, traktor users feel like saps yet?

Thread crap much?
So if an advertised feature doesn't work properly discredit the user base with pointless assumptions about their skill and not the developers. Sounds like a very fun and enlightening group--sign me up!

[loop]

Wonder if there is any indication if Itch will start supporting DVS?

the NS6 has 2x phono, 2x mic, 4 line ins. There's no info on how many channels the built-in audio interface has, but it'd be logical to think that it will be DVS capable. Xone DX is also fully capable of DVS (has the 2 phone pre-amps)

If they really want to compete with T2 (S4 in particular), they may really need to provide DVS capabilities to itch ...

BTW, who knows what's really is this "Rane/Serato contract ending" thing?

[haze324]

Itch beatgridding MUCH better than Traktors. For one you can have "warpable" grids.

The sync though....yeah it gets tricky and messed me up on a few occasions. Once I figured a good flow for it, it worked as advertised, but it's not as user friendly as Traktors.

I'll be interesting to see what they come with on 2.0. I think it's great in general for the controller community. If they bring the Bridge I think it'll have more of impact on Itch users than it did on SSL. Many of those folks are too used to using a TTM-57 and SL1200's. Also if Itch comes out with Video as they have said they are, that's a an entire different group of DJ now using controllers.

[deviantdigi]

Anyone have the slightest clue about the "new features" they described?

[robtronik]

Just cuz something looks better doesnt mean it works better. Most if not all CDJ djs are going to feel right at home with the DDJ-S1

I used both at NAMM, and the NS6 they had on display, was just that a DISPLAY ONLY aka a non-working model. You like the NS6 and tons of people love the DDJ-S1, we didnt have these many choices 4 years ago.

Check it out. Sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUhRbnNeVpk

[robtronik]

why are you pressing sync while it's playing and not beforehand and timing when to start the track?

That's what I do.

But I know what he is talking about. It does jump in between grid markers on occasion and you need to adjust manually.

I tend to use the Sync button as BPM only and then mix in as I would being the dj that I've been for years.

But if you expect total sync, at all times in the way TSP does, I can see how that would be bothersome.

I'm sure they will adjust this in the next release to refine it.

[robtronik]

Itch beatgridding MUCH better than Traktors. For one you can have "warpable" grids.

The sync though....yeah it gets tricky and messed me up on a few occasions. Once I figured a good flow for it, it worked as advertised, but it's not as user friendly as Traktors.

I'll be interesting to see what they come with on 2.0. I think it's great in general for the controller community. If they bring the Bridge I think it'll have more of impact on Itch users than it did on SSL. Many of those folks are too used to using a TTM-57 and SL1200's. Also if Itch comes out with Video as they have said they are, that's a an entire different group of DJ now using controllers.

bolded above is absolutely true. This alone makes the gridding by Itch superior to TSP.

The sync issue is only an issue if you have tracks that aren't correctly beatgridded throughout a track (like in TSP - but minus the part where you can adjust due to tempo changes).

I think we can all agree that TSP's gridding isn't perfect either. Have a track with variable tempo (or even tempo drift) you are out of luck.

If you play perfect temp tracks (a la techno made today) in either software, you are golden. (ha ha, hi Ean).

But if you play tracks that aren't electronic or one's made 5 or 10 years ago (usually, MIDI created tracks with drift, or sampled sequenced beats from back in the day, or hip hop or music played by real live bands), good luck with that in TSP.

So, apples and oranges. Use what is best for you.

BTW, the above is also why Serato has had the edge in this area because they took those types of music and variable tempo needs by DJs right from the beginning, whereas the roots of TSP's development did not.

It still does not have variable tempo beat gridding.

When it does (and it will at some point), then TSP will have taken a giant leap in usability for sync.

But they have yet to announce this feature as upcoming release except to say they are considering it.

I like TSP a lot - used it for years. But it was things like this and playlist management that started to get to me. That and the horrendous time it took to rewire everything at a gig while another DJ was playing via the audio8 interface and all those damn cables.

lol

[DJ Nada]

Itch will never support DVS, that's what SSL is for. Serato has tried hard to differentiate both products, and people that don't understand keep trying to get them to combine both. Itch is for MIDI controllers, SSL is for DVS control. Serato is not Traktor.
You guys have no idea how sad is is whining about sync not working properly. Is using a pitch fader and pitch bend that complicated? Using serato's visual display, I can beatmatch without headphones, OR using headphones I can beatmatch without looking at the screen. Sync is nice, but if you NEED it to DJ, that's freaking pathetic. You want to be a professional, learn the craft, master the art. Sync is a shortcut, and there's a time for using shortcuts, not all the time.

So anyway, what are the new features? Anybody know? Video plug-in? More FX? Smart Crates?