Serato celebrate 25 years of scratch with a new limited edition Scratch Live control vinyls [Video]

Digital DJs who love the Serato system can soon indulge themselves with a little piece of history and keep their control vinyls f-f-fresh and ready for action. The company is releasing special editions of the vinyls that make their system sing.

Released in 2004, Serato Scratch Live’s breakthrough was the combination of a USB computer interface that ‘listened to’ and locked into a REAL vinyl control surface. While other ‘digital DJ’ solutions required turntablists to give up their decks and take up the prodding and pushing of lumpen jog wheels in a poor simulacrum of what had been possible previously, the Serato system let established vinyl-loving DJs scratch something that looked, felt and behaved just like the real thing.

With the advent of Serato, digital DJing was no longer just for by-the-numbers tempo-matching techno heads. Now even the most rapid scratch DJ could benefit from the freedom, speed and ease …