History of digital Vinyl Emulation
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Soundgraph
The first Digital Vinyl Emulation product that was available for Windows 2000/XP was D-Vinyl 2020, which is now discontinued. It did not have an absolute (needle drop) mode.
Final Scratch
A Dutch company named N2IT made the first Final Scratch.
At the time, Final Scratch was intended to be used with BeOS, an operating system created by Be, Inc. and written from the ground-up to be a modern multimedia OS. Unfortunately for the FS folks, Be, Inc. died before FS had the product to market. FS had the software, the hardware, and no OS.
Thus, a change of tact ensued. Final Scratch was ported to Linux as a way-station of sorts. However, this required a full-blown packaged solution and so market penetration was limited to those able to deal with the complexity.
Stanton eventually combined forces with the FS folks and got the product out the door as Stanton Final Scratch, which was rewritten to support Windows and MacOS X. In later revisions, Stanton had Native Instruments provide a version of its DJ Studio for FS, and the FS hardware unit turned into a full-blown Firewire audio device.
The end result of this rocky history and tenuous set of re-alliances was a full-blown divorce between Stanton and NI in the recent past, leaving the future of FS in doubt.
Links
- John Acquaviva at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2002, talking about FS and the ideas behind it. http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/TUTORS.9.0.html?act_session=39
(taken from here)
Acknowledgement
Credits for this article go out to:
- Nik
- The Axledental DJ
- DJ Unother
Todo
- Needs history for other products, like Ms. Pinky, and, erm, SSL.
- Timelines?
