Free Beta Test Anyone?
A few years back getting onto the beta-test team of a new dj software meant some serious bragging rights. “Yeah, I got the advance copy of final scratch 1.1.3.5.6.7 , it only crashes about 5 times per hour now, I’m sooo cool.” Then everyone jumped on the open source Linux bandwagon basically saying, “hell, why not let everyone try the damn thing- then we can really find some bugs and not rely on a hand full of lazy beta testors” So lately many companies including Albleton and Serato have allowed users to downlaod new versions in advance. The only catch was they dont really advertise it and you have to know where to look. That trend continues today as at this very moment you can download 2 very cool beta’s including:
1} Serato Scratch Video
Thats right, for free you can get your hands on a demo version of what will be a very hot piece of $180 software. The only catch, you need to own the very expensive TTM-57SL or the software will not work at all. Just follow this link here to download the beta
2} DeckADance for MAC
After an unfortunate accident that left the company without its founder and creator, this new and exciting software has rebounded and is set to release the OSX version of its promising dj software. No hardware required just go here to download the public beta.
January 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm Quote
Thanks for the link Ean. Saw this the other day but am finally downloading it now!
I’ll post later with some observations about what I think (Not that I’m important or anything! ;-) )
p.s. Thanks for the Youtube response! :D
January 8th, 2008 at 2:30 am Quote
certainly post your responses! we are all interested in other users opinions on the new software.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pm Quote
Hey guys… from what I can tell from the beta I definitely prefer using Traktor. I haven’t used the plug-in functionality of using it in ableton (which i think was supposed to be a new feature) but the fact that EQ is handled by faders in the interface is really annoying. Midi mapping and control is excellent though and I would say definitely better handled than Traktor.
More thoughts on the way…
Norrin