Mixmeister Scratch brings scratching to the iPhone, vinyl still cooler

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Mixmeister Scratch brings scratching to the iPhone, vinyl still cooler

by Chris Ziegler posted Mar 13th 2008 at 1:57PM

Among the items on the miles-long list of things made better (or at least more interesting) with a capacitive touchscreen, virtual vinyl scratching and beat juggling has to be somewhere on there. Physical records have a certain sexiness that'll carry on for many years to come, but you've gotta admit that there's an appeal to whipping out a couple iPhones (or iPod touches, if that's how you roll), plugging them in, and having an instant set of turntables at your disposal. We're not quite there yet, but MixMeister has taken the first step with a rudimentary scratch app that comes with a set of funky fresh samples and will also work with any music already loaded on your device. It's not released yet, but it looks like when it is, it'll work with all firmware versions -- jailbroken ones, we presume. Follow the break for a video demo.

[Thanks, Chris]

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: apple, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, mixmeister, mixmeister scratch, MixmeisterScratch, music, vinyl

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MinceyFresh @ Mar 13th 2008 2:38PM

That looks like it'll be fun for about a minute unless you can do more than just scratch & beat juggle...

It'd be pretty nifty if the folks who made that Pacemaker DAP/turntable made some sort of Pacemaker app for the iPhone...

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Andrew @ Mar 13th 2008 5:05PM

Perfect with this: http://www.thexfader.com

Now you have the whole kit and kaboodle, in your pocket. Very 21st Century!

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Robot @ Mar 13th 2008 7:53PM

So, they used Garageband samples of scratching and simply play them over the music.

Lame.

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JerryA @ Mar 14th 2008 4:22PM

I dunno. It sounds more like they are scratching the actual song but I could be wrong. Each scratch sounded like the audio that they were scratching, kinda like VirtualDJ or any number of desktop apps that let you manipulate sound samples.

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