

We have also learned that there is a tricky way to use the ubiquitous Rane TTm-57SL mixer as a multi channel sound card on mac computers and I will be posting an article on how to do that next week! MULTI CHANNEL SUPPORT For me personally, I love the Rane hardware and it breaks my heart to bring extra sound cards into a club that already has a great one installed. Those paradigms have been changing lately with Traktor Scratch gaining momentum and the Traktor S4 software stealing away Itch users. The exclusive pairing of Rane hardware and Serato software may have made sense for the past few years with Rane mixers being predominant in the US market and Serato having a solid hold on our local digital djs. Steve Macatee, Director of New Product Development at Rane told us once they are stable and out of beta they will be available as a free download from SIGN OF THE TIMES? Please note, you will need to register in order to download these drivers. Right now the drivers are in BETA and can only be download in the 2.2 public beta section of the Serato Sratch forum in this thread. This is huge because it means some djs can use the Rane hardware already in clubs as their sound card- greatly simplifying set-up. Dj TechTools has learned that there are brand new ASIO and Core Audio drivers that allow any software to use Rane 68 mixers and S元 boxes as multi-channel sound cards.

If you wanted to use the S元 box sitting in the club as a sound card, for example, that was not possible. Up until now, Serato had an exclusive 5 year run on the Rane hardware.
