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Vinyl Digital Systems – How Do They Work?

Digital vinyl system (DVS) have been developed to allow a DJ to physically handle playing a digital audio file on a computer using a standard set of vinyl or CD as an interface. digital vinyl systems keep hands on the true feeling of each vinyl to digital music playback is not available on vinyl. They allow DJs to scratch and do other things that are not possible with a keyboard or mouse.

DVS systems use special time-code vinyl or CD control. Audio from the hard time code is first transmitted to a A2D audio interface (usually provided as part of package DEP), which then sends a signal digital time code for the software. The software then converts the signal to the corresponding change in the position and speed of reading the digital file. Mute software then goes through the audio interface or sound card in your computer, then to a mixer, where it can be mixed in the same manner as any other audio signal.

The length of delay between reading the time code signal and the audio is a measure of the performance of a digital vinyl system. A typical time is generally about 6 to 30 milliseconds.

SAY packages the most popular on the market is now Serato Scratch Live (SSL) and Native Instruments Traktor Scratch Pro. Scratch Live is the most popular system in the United States while Traktor Scratch is more popular in Europe.

There is some controversy over who really invented the concept of a digital vinyl. The first was FinalScratch Digital Vinyl System for BeOS. This system was developed in 1997/1998 by the company in Amsterdam called N2IT where the contribution of DJ Richie Hawtin and John Aquaviva. However, hip-hop star RZA of Wu Tang Clan KotoriMag.com claimed in an interview that was actually he who invented the concept of a digital vinyl, a year before N2IT using the age of space technology from NASA and million dollars of his money.