Talk:Vinyl emulation software

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Contents 1 FOSS Alternatives 2 Cheapest setup ? 3 sources??? 4 all you NEED is a PC and mouse 5 encoding technique 6 Good rewrite, fewer product listings? 7 Timecode CDs

[edit] FOSS Alternatives

Are there any GNU / Free Software alternatives? I could have some fun with that. As a portable application it would be even better ... --Nerd42 (talk) 20:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Xwax is all I know of, but it's still in very early development and I can't vouch for it (I'm using Traktor Scratch right now). The original Final Scratch ran on Linux, sort of. It had its own dedicated OS based on Red Hat if I recall correctly, and I think it was developed in BeOS. Djdannyq 15:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheapest setup ?

whats the cheapest way to do this? are there any good articles about that on the internet anywhere that we could link to? --Nerd42 (talk) 19:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sources???

why do we need sources when all this is is an explanation of what the software does and a list of different programs? its like requiring a source for defining the word "potato"

I propose tagging this article as 'fact' since it is an uncontroversial common definition. At the same time, the external links need to be cleaned up and converted to internal article links. Unless anyone thinks this is a problem, I'll go ahead and do that in the next day or so. Djdannyq 15:48, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] all you NEED is a PC and mouse

other equipment may be DESIRABLE but it is POSSIBLE to just use a PC and a mouse. tha's what "emulation" means really - using completely different hardware to emulate something else. when you start adding on stuff, it stops being a turntable emulator and starts being an actual turntable.

Vinyl interface might be a better title, but vinyl emulation seems to be what got chosen here, and I think it's valid. The vinyl is emulated (or used to emulate, depending on how you interpret the phrase), but the turntable is real (I suppose you could file what you describe under turntable emulation). The emulation part is the feeling of spinning traditional vinyl—music—when it's really just a time-code playing under the needle.Djdannyq 11:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] encoding technique

What coding do they use on the vinyl? I know that they are absolute encoded...

[edit] Good rewrite, fewer product listings?

A good rewrite of this article; it is a much better.

How about listing particular products only where they are significant eg. Final Scratch: first to market, Scratch Live: current market leader, MsPinky: technology licensed to other products, xwax: first open source. Finding references for this might be challenging. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.142.118 (talk) 23:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't aware that Scratch Live is the current market leader, but I do think adding a 'history' section would be a good move to cover most of what you mentioned. I just tried to overhaul the summary and salvage the list of products.

I only took out the product listings that were obvious dead-ends or not actual vinyl emulation products. M-Audio Torq was the only tough call, so maybe it should go back in, but I know next to nothing about it. It didn't look like a vinyl emulator from my cursory glance, but I've been wrong about stuff before.Djdannyq 20:41, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Timecode CDs

I was going to add the fact that most if not all vinyl emulation software also works with timecoded CDs played in CDJs, but I don't have a specific source. It should be easy to find, but I'm not well versed in what qualifies as a good source so I didn't want to just grab one.--198.82.97.118 10:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)