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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Ots CD Scratch 1200 1.00.032
"Be a Virtual DJ - A Music Lover's Gem!"
Pros: This is a brilliant little piece of software which allows you to control your own pair of virtual turntables. You will need a cd or dvd-rom drive to make use of this program as your music cds become the source of music for your virtual mixing. You can virtually scratch, mix, change pitch and tempo and even add special effects...its a music lover's dream and you don't have to pay a penny. It's easy to use and looks pretty empressive as well! Did I mention it's free???! Plus you don't even need two disc drives as you can select different tracks from the same cd to mix on the two seperate virtual turntables!
Cons: I couldn't find any problems with this at all, no bugs or clitches. The only downfall is that you can't use music files stored on you PC (well i don't think you can)but still you could always burn them onto CD if you wanted.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Ots CD Scratch 1200 1.00.032
Pros: Great mixing. Just like a real DJ board
Cons: very hard to scratch beats. It uses your mouse and it is fairly difficult.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Ots CD Scratch 1200 1.00.032
"Ots CD Scratch - Simple but not Exceptional"
Pros: It's easy to use, and free. Small file size.
Cons: Somewhat ugly. The layout fails to impress or stand out in any way. Mixing is too simple - not for the advanced users.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Ots CD Scratch 1200 1.00.032
"A very nice program for Mobile performance"
Pros: I've used a couple of trial DJ PC products and none come even close to this one in terms of overall usability and stability.
One thing I cannot stress enough - this truly is a lite application in terms of resource usage. I own a pentium 4 1.2 GHZ machine with about 768MB memory (1 gig at least is standard on new mid-market PC's). It loads quickly and allows you to get started immediately, and it doesn't bog down your PC. The interface is very intuitive and easy to use. Because of the added sound processing and normalization features, this player sounds great even in it's freeware form! You will not need to mess around much with the equalization between tracks. The vinyl theme adds to the overall feel of the product and makes you feel like your spinning your MP3's on two proper decks. Also surprising, which I didn't think I would like, is the "vinyl noise" feature, which makes your MP3 sound surprisingly like real vinyl. This is switched off by default, but I have become addicted to it. If you're not a hands on DJ, you will really love the way this product automates fades from one track to another. I honestly have to say I haven't heard a clumsy auto-fade yet! Anyone who has tried to use the so-called auto-crossfade feature on Windows Media Player will definitely appreciate it.
Cons: There's not much to not like about this program, particularly since the one I tested is the freeware version. Outside of the unavailable features (some eq and effects, return-pitch bending, beat matching), there are some things that I think are legitimate gripes.
The two-deck vinyl user interface, though a cool edition graphically, isn't very practical. Scratching with the mouse is too clumsy to seriously try during a performance. Also gripeworthy is the fact that your tracks have to be either in .WAV or 44,1nnn cycle mp3 format, which is pretty standard - but I have some stuff in .WMA format as well that I had to convert in order to use.
Finally, be careful if you plan to use music with this that you paid for through services like iTunes and Urge. Because of the DRM encoding on those tracks that I downloaded (legally), I had to rip the tracks from the CD's I originally burned from them in order to get them into the right unencoded format. I would really like to see this product support the WMA format and DRM managed files in the future, but it's definitely not enough to stop me from recommending it, and it's not something I believe the company would have much say in anyhow.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Ots CD Scratch 1200 1.00.032
"good program but the glitch is"
Pros: it is great if you have 2 cd roms and you want to mix.. it is great for those that had no experance sense it does have a auto mixer in it the layout after with time gets easy to work with but if you are new it seems kinda difficult all in all it is a great program if you just started up
Cons: You can not use music that is on your computer you can only use cds to use it if you are into using you personal computer or a laptop you are better off looking for a program that can use music that is in your hard drive...
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