Lewis then exported* the audio so it was a standalone track, lined this up in Scratch Live and sync-ed this to the video file in Mix Emergency, and began scratching back and forth, the hip-hop track coming out through the speakers and the video clip through video output onto a TV. ![]() Loading a video file in Scratch Live will cause the associated video to load in Mi圎mergency.Īccording to DJ Lewis Cancut ( /lewiscancut // “Hip Hop / Korean Pop / Tropical”, or jump onto the Scattermish ( label ) blog / mp3 gravytrain ), Mix Emergency is “Sick”.įrom my video library, Lewis made a special request for that ‘ Little Superstar‘ clip doing the rounds a while back, of a tiny grinning Indian boy bodypopping like an electrified midget James Brown, freezing whenever his dad pressed stop on their portable ghetto blaster. ![]() – Supports external control by Scratch Live by Serato. – Mi圎mergency officially supports and recommends the following video container formats: avi, m4v, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpg and the following video codecs: H.264, Motion JPEG A, Motion JPEG B, MPEG-4. Mix Emergency doesn’t handle any audio itself, but as it runs grand in conjunction with Scratch Live, that’s fine. In other words, mix and scratch video and visualisations ( it’ll handle your quirky quartz composer patches) in real-time, if you’re already using Serato Scratch Live. Mix Emergency lets DJs use video files as well, so as well as music going to the speakers, video goes out to a projector, but the speed and timing of it is controlled by the DJ’s hands. So instead of choosing records, now they can just pick a track on their laptop, and a special device let’s them pretend the record on the turntable has that track on it, letting them move their hands about and scratch it or jump to different places, and the device and the laptop take care of playing that music out of the speakers. If my mum asked me, I’d say – DJs got tired of carrying milk crates full of records around, and started storing all their music on laptops. We’ll be watching the co-existence of Mi圎mergency and Serato Video with interest.Pixel-hungry Serato turntablists have a new tool in their arsenal, Mix Emergency, available from /mixemergency. And v1 owners can still upgrade to v2 for $99. Mi圎mergency 2.5 is a free upgrade for existing v2 users. ![]() Having been validated by Serato means that it can carry on full pelt and add lots of cool features knowing that the immediate future is safe. It looks like Mi圎mergency is really picking up steam now.
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