Livetronica Studio, the next generation of DJ DAWs.
Livetronica Studio, the next generation of DJ DAWs. Posted on: 19.06.2012 by Yuko Armacost
So this DJ DAW called Livetronica Studio by Stage Craft Software.com is software for, "looping, scratching, turntablism, controllerism, VST/AU hosting, and all sorts of live music making. Comes with tight Soundcloud integration, easy midi mapping for complete control, intense turntable visualization, and timecoded vinyl support." The GUI is butt ugly but the functionality looks beautiful. Of course this isn't the only DAW application to take on the DJ experience but unlike "The One" this application looks to be making progress not lip service. In other words it is free to download the BETA. If you decide to download the BETA and play with it post your thoughts here. You should also make a video for the software developer. In the video below he pokes fun at his DJing abilities and wants a community of DJs to show him what his software can do. I believe this community can take that challenge. So here are the key features...
Oh and there is this thing the developer is calling, "Turntable Quantization." With Livetronica you can turn the turntable sensitivity up to well beyond that of a realistic turntable, and even hit freq shifts that are unrealistic or impossible on real turntables. But lets go a step further. Just as guitar has frets for every semitone, you can quantize the virtual turntables in Livetronica to produce pitch shifts the correspond only to semitonic intervals. Or, like some other instruments, you can quantize to only the major or minor intervals, or the blues or jazz scales. There are even options for modal, flamenco and middle eastern scales in Livetronica. Not satisfied with sticking to a scale? You can also set how strictly the turntable adheres to the scale. You can push and pull the notes … sliding like a guitarist bending a note from one pitch to another to strain to hit that perfect blue note between the intervals. It’s all there, Livetronica has the most advanced pitch quantization of any tool in the dj’s arsenal. | |
| Winter Ruggio 16.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by aaronleese
hello, i have been dj'ing and especially skratching for 20 plus years and would love to help you with this project.beta-test,help promote,whatever you need,please contact me at [email protected] and send me a link to get the software and whatever else it needs to start skratching using my traktor time code vinyl and my a6 sound card.i can also send you some samples of my work.i have done commercial sound work for nike and the olympics and adidas and verizon...etc. i truly like the way you laid it all out and would like to really open it up and see the possibilities.please contact as soon as you can. thank you for your time. j-kutta aka dj calkutta NYC all the other links never have worked for me...i need a windows 7 beta copy.let me know if i need to download anything extra to use my turntables.thanks in advance |
| Sook Kitaoka 07.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by spencer4hire
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| Winter Ruggio 28.10.2012 | man, i still cant get it to work.i tried opening it on 3 machines,all with great specs.please let me know how anyone got it to work.i got the zip file,but when i open it,it says i need some dll file.i emailed aaron,and he said i didnt unzip it right.if someone can send me the exe in a dropbox file,so i dont gotta unzip,please let me know...the gui is the last of my worries,its all about 'performance'. the 'one' looks real cool,but so did the matrix.bells and whistles are just bells and whistles.i truly believe this guy is going about it the right way,grass-roots and offering things that no other software is doing.i truly hope this succeeds as the new daw/dvs.THIS IS WHAT OUR CULTURE IS ALL ABOUT....DONT FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM. if anyone can send me a working version in dropbox,please let me know asap.thanks fella's,and mad respect to aaron. j-kutta |
| Leeanna Ayla 17.10.2012 | Promising looking stuff. |
| Yuko Armacost 17.10.2012 | For those of you who don't exactly know what DigitalTiger is talking about, http://www.stagecraftsoftware.com/di...ate-a-scratch/. |
| Sook Kitaoka 17.10.2012 | I believe the really good news is that LiveTronica scratches forward and backward and doesn't just emulate scratching it actually IS scratching. I'm totally stoked that the software could be released with Smart BPM cross-fading along with all the other things other companies just aren't doing yet. |
| Yuko Armacost 16.10.2012 | Great! What he needs is a competent scratch DJ to field test it. Just download the application and test it and post your review here. |
| Winter Ruggio 16.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by aaronleese
hello, i have been dj'ing and especially skratching for 20 plus years and would love to help you with this project.beta-test,help promote,whatever you need,please contact me at [email protected] and send me a link to get the software and whatever else it needs to start skratching using my traktor time code vinyl and my a6 sound card.i can also send you some samples of my work.i have done commercial sound work for nike and the olympics and adidas and verizon...etc. i truly like the way you laid it all out and would like to really open it up and see the possibilities.please contact as soon as you can. thank you for your time. j-kutta aka dj calkutta NYC all the other links never have worked for me...i need a windows 7 beta copy.let me know if i need to download anything extra to use my turntables.thanks in advance |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 16.07.2012 | looks very cool to me, awesome i do like the ability to move windows around. really not sure why some stupid comments from some people on this thread, some people are just never happy any chance you are planning a linux port? not used JUCE before myself but see it also supports linux. i have a mbp + another laptop running archlinux that has win7 on another partition. i'll test the current version out on both my mac and win7 later. shame u didn't put the effort from this app into mixxx |
| Charlena Nersesyan 16.07.2012 | No, still working that out. Planning on always having a free version, and a few smaller items at low prices (single turntable plugins, the SoundCloud browsers, upcoming scratch track plugin, etc), but I will need to add a pricetag at some point and get the studio in the App Store and AppUp (PC) store. I would like to be able to bring a couple additional programmers on board at some point. It may be worth my time to add a donation button or make a kickstarter campaign too .... not sure. I'm working with some hardware guys too, trying to find companies that make great midi controllers but need some software that supports it (like Livid for example). One of these days I'll hit Ean about adding some integration for the midi fighter 3d as well. Those sorts of hardware/software integration projects are fun and useful (plus get funded better on Kickstarter and help all of us in the music tech community get people better solutions). Honestly I'm not much of a business person, so I'm still trying to figure out the best course. Thoughts, ideas? Oh - one other thing - Since I need beta testers I've created a community for bug reports and features requests (community .stagecraftsoftare.com). You do NOT need to register to post, but if you are registered and contributing to the beta testing process in the next couple months you will get a free copy of the software. |
| Rosina Steinkuehler 17.07.2012 | Good deal. Good luck with the software! Have any idea what you plan on pricing it at? |
| Charlena Nersesyan 17.07.2012 | commercial license for JUCE: http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/jucelicense.php |
| Rosina Steinkuehler 16.07.2012 | You mention that this is written using the Juice library which is GPL. How do you plan on satisfying the GPL requirements by only opening up parts of the program? You might want to consult with the Free Software foundation because my understanding is once you link with that library you must open up the rest of your program (open source it). EDIT: Some resources you might want to look into. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html |
| Charlena Nersesyan 15.07.2012 | Hey Spencer - Thanks! It is not currently open source (though certain parts of it will be in the future). What programming experience do you have? The program is written in C++ using the JUCE libraries. Drop me a line on the community or through the website and I'll get back to from my email. |
| Yuko Armacost 15.07.2012 | Aaron great work on the program! I also would like to help you with the GUI but beyond that I believe the program is stellar. The newer beta does seem far more stable and I plan on playing around with it. Where is the source? Or is this open source yet? |
| Charlena Nersesyan 15.07.2012 | Hey guys - This is the programmer in question. Thanks for all the feedback above. I just stumbled upon this thread and, well, have a few thoughts. First off, thanks for the kudos on all my hard work. This has been a long couple years getting this program to where it is - there is a lot to work out still but it's moving fast. The bureaucracy comment is right on point - if you have a very direct goal and not a lot of meetings/discussions/shareholdes/QA - things tend to go pretty fast (as opposed to a project like, say, the bridge, which took years to *develop* ... I mean, you can't scratch backwards ... come on ableton/serato). Being a one man operation, however, also means I don't have 10 different computers to test on and a staff to help out .... so I rely on feedback and update the beta frequently. The windows issues referenced above were cleared up last week for example (openGL was a problem on the windows side for many users). There are, of course, lots of other issues being worked through currently. DigitalTiger - thanks for the offers, I will contact you and would love to hear you're thoughts and maybe work together. With regards to scratching skillz .... yeah, I'm working on it. Also, working on getting some scratch DJs to come demo the program (seems 95% of DJs don't actually scratch ..... no surprise there). Please feel free drop me line if you would like to help out |
| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 07.07.2012 | It's probably because there is is no bureaucrats holding him back, check what gwen did with djdecks, a lot of it's functionalty was from requests on his community ... Although this is one step further as it allows vst instruments natively. I'd love for this to work, but it's just not stable enough yet. |
| Sook Kitaoka 07.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by spencer4hire
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| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 20.06.2012 | how long does it typically take to open for you? I'm pretty impatient I guess... |
| Yuko Armacost 21.06.2012 | Yeah. I too had stability problems on my quad core i5 HP laptop. It didn't freeze like you mention but I couldn't get it to run right. Very slow. Seems like he needs some development help. |
| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 21.06.2012 | extracted zip to program files then tried to open on two different windows computers, both hung for longer than 5 minutes, then I terminated with task manager. first computer is a Acer 2.4ghz, amd dual core 4gb laptop, this wouldn't allow task manager to shut it down, so waited a further 10 minutes then switched it off, needed to run start up repair and proceed with a system restore to boot back up. second computer - eeepc 1.66ghz overclocked to 2.11ghz atom single core 2gb, hung for 5 minutes, shut down successfully with task manager.. looks like a great set of features for an all in one performance solution but unstable |
| Brunilda Kora 20.06.2012 | Some people just like to be TOLD how to do everything. |
| Yuko Armacost 20.06.2012 | Yeah haters gonna hate, as they say. These guys are complaining about the scratching demonstration and the GUI being designed by an engineer but they don't offer to help in any way shape or form. That's simply trolling. Just ignore em. Considering this is just one person developing this software I am impressed. I've offered to help the developer with GUI improvements. I believe the ugly interface is what really will turn people off. The way The One does it is far better and I believe it would be a good idea to work from that styling guide. But some people will just hate the idea of a customizable user interface to begin with. They are unable to believe of how they would use it and apply that same internalized limitation on everyone else. Abraham-Lincoln-Haters-Gonna-Hate.jpg |
| Brunilda Kora 20.06.2012 | This is REALLY promising. Stop bashing the dude... |
| Daine Ziadeh 19.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by spencer4hire
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| Daine Ziadeh 19.06.2012 |
Originally Posted by spencer4hire
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| Nancey Inderlied 19.06.2012 | I believe it's actually pretty accurate. A confused, unfocused mess of scratching, to demonstrate a confused, unfocused mess of software. It's pretty fitting a programmer demoed the features, as it was obviously designed by programmers, for programmers, and not by anyone with any intention of actually using it. It looks like a gigantic pile of features and options slapped together into a mess of code and UI. To quote Giantbomb: "Guys... I know a couple engineers, and this... It looks like it was built by engineers..." |
| Yuko Armacost 19.06.2012 | Dude. He is a programmer. Chill out. No one is going to make fun of you for not knowing how to write lines of code. Why bust his balls? He has to scratch to test his software does he not? In the second video he talks about how he isn't a scratch DJ (http://youtu.be/u4sM3t2Bu48?t=2m38s) and that he needs scratch DJs to send him performance videos. If you're so good please DL the app and show us what can be done with these features. |
| Daine Ziadeh 20.06.2012 | Wtf is the guy on the last video doing...Even if it's just an example you shouldn't be doing that shitty ''scratching''. |
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