Final Scratch and what do you think of....

[Evil G]

but isnt that the point of cd decks?

never used either so i cant really comment

the two major drawbacks of cd decks are:

a) no tactile control - you can't touch the cd while it spins

b) 16 bit sound - 65,000 degrees of amplitude

with final scratch, you get to touch a record, and you have the option of playing 24 bit files (16 million degrees of amplitude), which, imho, sound much fuller and warmer than cds.

if you are playing tracks ripped from cd or downloaded from the net, they wont be 24 bit, but if you produced them yourself though ought to be.

i do tend to think though that ableton is going to supercede final scratch. nobody cares about beat mixing anymore, because anybody can learn to do it in a couple of months. so the direction a lot of people are taking is, forget beat mixing, spend more time tweaking filters and fx.