Itch - "Elastic" beat grids on the way.

[Jack Bastard]

The idea is to look at the alignment of the waveforms while listening in with the headphones.

Ears + Eyes > Ears

At least that's how it is for me.

Horses for courses I guess. I still don't get why it's a huge advantage though.

[B Linus]

Horses for courses I guess. I still don't get why it's a huge advantage though.

I understand. My guess is that it's got a lot to do with how I learned, and what I learned on. Both SSL and ITCH have adjacent waveforms, and I've been visually keeping the tracks in check alongside with what I'm hearing since I began DJ'ing.

I know we can both agree that the ends are more important than the means. The tracks I play, the people I play them to, and the experience I provide for the listeners is the reason I DJ, and my goal is to express this by whatever means I work with best.

[haze324]

I still don't get why it's a huge advantage though.

ok so you don't get it.

Others do.

[djproben]

I dont agree that Itch has the advantage on that point. If you really need visual feedback, Traktor's phase meter is actually far more precise and helpful than stacked waveforms. It's not as obvious maybe but I think it works far better once you get the hang of it. And it's nice to be able to turn it off when you want to beatmatch by ear, something serato can't do.

[elliotg]

you can turn off waveforms in 2.0 and have no visual feedback

[zestoi]

Horses for courses I guess. I still don't get why it's a huge advantage though.

probably a big difference if you are using jogs to scratch or just drop various samples from a track in a few times etc. ofc you could also set a cue for that.

i'm not really sure i see a big advantage with the coloured waveform thing but i do like it. just helps to segment the waveform up nicely etc.

and there's been times when i've been playing (long time ago on turntables only) and had real problems hearing thru my headphones because the track didnt have a clean hihat etc - i'd loved to have been able to fallback to looking at a waveform for those times...