Scratch LIVE Feature Suggestions

What features would you like to see in Scratch LIVE?

User Customizable keyboards Shortcut

I think this will be a nice improvment. I would like to customize the keyboards shortcut, in order to assign the different functions in the way i like it with the keyboard.
Exemple : To map a song, with TFS i was using keys '1' for deck A and key '2' for deck B....a lot more simple than 'ctrl + <-' for deck A and 'ctrl + ->' for deck B.....

Is that possible?
At 8:40 AM 29 June 2004
T-One wrote
Hi... I kinda have a gripe about my keyboard and not being able to customize the shortcuts... on my toshiba sat A25 there is no ctrl button on the right side... so i have to use two hands to map a track... i really like the fact on my old hp laptop that i could browse with the up or down arrows and then map the song all w/ one hand... will we be able to customize the shortcuts? at least change the map shortcut to atl+(left)/(right)... :) :P
At 7:45 AM 20 July 2004
BadCompany wrote
The keystroke already works with shift+(left/right).

In fact that's what I always use, because I don't have a ctrl key near my arrows either.
At 8:27 AM 20 July 2004
AJ wrote

Serato, Moderator
Your Da man AJ :)
At 2:17 PM 20 July 2004
BadCompany wrote
... i fully recant my need for custom shortcuts :)...

... but if you do put em in i wont be mad ...

thanks guys :)
At 2:18 PM 20 July 2004
BadCompany wrote
Quote:
Your Da man AJ :)


I concur!
At 2:59 PM 20 July 2004
DJ Dynamight wrote
I think it will be a very urgent needed improvement...
please make it faster to get it !!!

THX!
At 2:28 AM 4 November 2004
LukeSun wrote
Yes, no news about this feature since a lot of time...but i think it's very simple to implement (the proof, this feature was in FS 1.0...muhahahahaha)!
And very usefull feature, when you are in the mix, it's not very accurate to press two or three button of the keyboard to map a song!!
At 2:28 PM 4 November 2004
T-One wrote
I would call these shortcuts, drunken proof mode. At least its very unlikely that I map a track accidently.
At 2:52 PM 4 November 2004
nik39 wrote
yes this is configurable shortcuts, that give the possibility to use only one button to map a song and not a combination of two buttons!
At 3:01 PM 4 November 2004
T-One wrote
could there be a way to hold down to copies of a record at the same time using a shortcut please. for example so your looking thru your list of tunes and you see a double you want to juggle you could hold down control and drop two copies of it into prepare if your planning a mixtape there or could you drop a copy of it into both 'decks' at the same time to save that extra nanosecond that could be the difference between winning a title and being a nobody all your life
At 11:20 PM 25 July 2005
Tris Trust wrote
:)
At 11:20 PM 25 July 2005
Tris Trust wrote
sorry if anyone else suggested this already
At 11:20 PM 25 July 2005
Tris Trust wrote
2 copies sorry. plebism
At 11:23 PM 25 July 2005
Tris Trust wrote
and now i see soemone else has suggested it before.


i second that man
At 11:27 PM 25 July 2005
Tris Trust wrote
my argument for user customizable keyboard shortcuts

for turntablism routines, addressing the laptop and executing keyboard shortcuts can be difficult when you're trying to cue up the next record in time.

While it seems joysticks can be used to perform keyboard shortcuts, they are awkward on a dj setup.

A USB keypad could be used and placed almost anywhere near the turntable setup and the keys be re-assigned "next track", "assign to left deck" & "assign to right deck". Since the keypad is so small, it may fit right on the mixer and the dj can concentrate on executing the set and not so much navigating around the laptop keyboard.

The down arrow, and CTRL-LFT/RGT are easy enough, the screen and the rest of the keyboard aren't really necessary for turntablist routines. So customizing keystrokes to the keypad brings it down the essentials of what a turntablist would need in a performance situation.

I hope you consider this for the next update.

thanks
At 6:51 PM 7 February 2006
anon_twist wrote
it's a good idea.

You have my vote.
At 10:04 AM 8 February 2006
Samuel wrote
What's up now with that? I just figured out how looping works and I am messing all shourtcuts up. Would be really nice improvement.
At 10:04 AM 11 May 2006
t.i.m. wrote
Good idea
At 10:51 AM 15 May 2006
spirez wrote
Ability to assign new shortcuts to these functions urgently required here also.

Anyone here who may be interested, windows xp is it possible to alter keyboard layouts by hacking the registry unfortunately this will be be enough to cure the multiple key strokes required for SSL.

One could almost assume the delay and lack of reply on this subject is due to sales for 57, I guess it is not cost effective to help out the existing customers.. I don't think I would buy a 57 due to the fact I can fit the SSL box in my notebook case whereas an entire mixer would be a pain for me.

Please sort this out for us.
At 1:12 PM 20 August 2006
tikka wrote
erm, im not sure what i was doing in that last pose totally cocked it up..

Anyone here who may be interested, windows xp IT IS possible to alter keyboard layouts by hacking the registry unfortunately this will not be be enough to cure the multiple key strokes required for SSL.

EDIT heh
At 1:14 PM 20 August 2006
tikka wrote
YA,I think this is a "must-have" function!
You have my support!
I'd love to see this update too~~
At 12:39 AM 21 August 2006
the display needs a facelift.Î hate this orange and blue big tracknames.the track waveforms(from the complete track) can be bigger. are u guys working on this????
At 9:04 AM 25 January 2007
kenny davis wrote
this would be agreat one. since i have changed from fs and my orientation is still very left-right and i find the top-bottom concept of the keyboard layout very confusing sometimes (especially later at night)..
for example i would map deck a the QWERT key for all controls, ASDF for looping and so on, while deck B would be on the right side of the keyboard.
also it would enable the user to use a small numeric keyboard (like this one www.amazon.com) that can sit right next to the mixer or held in the hand.
this isnt a big feature, but would make things more flexible..
thanks
At 4:54 PM 4 February 2007
felixfuchs wrote
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this would be agreat one. since i have changed from fs and my orientation is still very left-right and i find the top-bottom concept of the keyboard layout very confusing sometimes (especially later at night)..
for example i would map deck a the QWERT key for all controls, ASDF for looping and so on, while deck B would be on the right side of the keyboard.
also it would enable the user to use a small numeric keyboard (like this one www.amazon.com) that can sit right next to the mixer or held in the hand.
this isnt a big feature, but would make things more flexible..
thanks


you are already able to use horizontale waveforms like final sh*t uses!
just check in your setup (from V1.6 onwards I guess)
At 8:34 AM 5 February 2007
i know and i like the horizontal waveforms, but what i am saying is the layout of the keyboard. its top-bottom orientated, while my decks are obviosly left-right and this is just not logic to me. even if you use the vertival waveforms, you always have to convert..
know what i mean?
At 9:41 AM 5 February 2007
felixfuchs wrote
Quote:

A USB keypad could be used and placed almost anywhere near the turntable setup and the keys be re-assigned "next track", "assign to left deck" & "assign to right deck". Since the keypad is so small, it may fit right on the mixer and the dj can concentrate on executing the set and not so much navigating around the laptop keyboard.

The down arrow, and CTRL-LFT/RGT are easy enough, the screen and the rest of the keyboard aren't really necessary for turntablist routines. So customizing keystrokes to the keypad brings it down the essentials of what a turntablist would need in a performance situation.

thanks

I agree that it isn't really necessary for me anyway to change the keys layout and especially if I have to "hack" anything on my computer! I would however like to see Rane design an external (via USB?) controller MAINLY for tapping in cue points live...I really like this feature but I find that I end up mashing the keyboard while mixing so I'm concerned about ruining my lappy... If you had a small keypad with controls for ONE deck, with a crossfader style switch on top to select which deck you're controlling you wouldn't have to worry about hitting the wrong key so much and affecting the other deck that's playing... oh and if it had a clamp or something to hold it onto the case/coffin near the mixer I think that would be "The S**T!"
PEACE!
At 12:47 PM 9 July 2007
DJ BT wrote
Please incorporate custom key commands. I find some of them to be unintuitive and would like to disable others that are not useful to me. This would help stream line my mixing process.
At 6:23 AM 15 July 2007
bfreakin wrote
Wouldn't it be a nice idea to use some of the f keys as short samples that you can customize. Like have some noises, or intros that u usually have to look for, just be at your finger tips. You can also have 2 songs going at once and hit one of the sample to create an explosion or what ever you want to put on them!!! At least for me that would come in handy and I'm sure for most of you it would too.
At 10:45 PM 10 January 2008
djkrycis wrote
Hi,
Just another person to add to the list of people wanting the added bonus of wanting to re assign my shortcut keys to something that would benifit me greatly.

Any luck of seeing this in the near future?
At 4:28 AM 17 April 2008
Bignuts wrote
yeah, it would be good if you could change they keyboard keys however u want
At 8:28 PM 27 November 2008
charlee1985 wrote
Absolutely neccesary, and for mapping to midi.
At 11:42 PM 1 December 2008

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