Multi-track Scratch Player on a Multi-touch Sensing Device

Scratching with turntables is a popular sound generation technique in today’s music scene, especially in hip-hop culture. A conventional turntable system consists of two turntables (record players) and an audio mixer, but the proposed system requires a computer and a multi-touch sensing device, so it is smaller and portable. Moreover, the proposed system enables the use of various novel scratching techniques that are difficult or impossible to perform on existing systems. In this paper we describe the implementation of the proposed system and introduce some scratching techniques that can be used with it. 1 Background Scratching on a turntable is a popular sound generation technique in today’s music scene. Scratching usually involves the use of two turntables and an audio mixer for scratching. A player (known as a DJ or turntablist) manipulates these with his hands (Figure 1). A scratching sound is generated by rotating a record on the turntable back and forth by hand, while the ot...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IWEC
• Authors: Kentaro Fukuchi
• Keywords: Applied Computing, IWEC 2007, Popular Sound Generation, Scratching, Sound Generation Technique