The Bridge provides Ableton Transport Control (ATC), giving you turntable-style control of your own multitrack productions. Simply drag an Ableton Live Set to a deck in Scratch Live or ITCH and use your turntables, CDJ or ITCH controller to control the transport. With ATC, Scratch Live or ITCH provides your productions with deck control, mixing, nudging and DJ style looping, while you can remix, mute/solo tracks, use virtual instruments, change drum patterns, manipulate audio, tweak effects and launch loops on the fly in Ableton Live.

A Window into Live

Activating the 'Ableton View' in Scratch Live or ITCH opens a representation of Live's Session View, where you can launch clips and scenes, control instruments and devices, mix, mute and solo—all from within your ITCH or Scratch Live user interface. If you need more detail, just switch to the full Ableton Live application for complete control.

The Ableton View displays critical information from your Ableton Live Set, including:

• Clips, including clip name, color and play buttons
• Track levels
• Level meters
• Sends A and B
• Device control for effects
• Track solo, arm and mute

The Ableton View can be customized to show 4, 5, or 8 scenes, and 4, 6 or 8 tracks.

Put Ableton Live Sets into your Serato mix
When both programs are open, an Ableton Live Transport Track appears in your Serato library. Drag this onto a deck in Scratch Live or ITCH, then use the deck to control Ableton Live's tempo and playback.

Control Live's tempo with Itch or Scratch Live
All the controls in the Serato user interface apply to the Live Set. Change the tempo of your Live Set, nudge the transport position and loop Live's transport, all from the comfort of your Serato Scratch Live or ITCH interface.

See your bars and beats
When ATC is active, Serato's Main Waveform Display gives you a visual indicator of bars and beats, so you can correctly line up the downbeat of your Live Set to a track playing on ITCH or Scratch Live's Virtual Deck.

Locked to the groove
Free up a deck in Scratch Live or ITCH by syncing the special 'Ableton Player' to one of your decks. The Ableton Player now controls playback of your Ableton Live Set, and is automatically locked to the groove and timing of the track on that deck. The Ableton Player is ideal for dropping in spot samples, vocal drops, one-shots and additional instrumentation over your DJ set.

Play hard(ware)
Apart from your Serato hardware, using an additional dedicated controller such as the Akai Professional APC40, APC20 or Novation Launchpad opens up your game for more mixing, effects handling and for triggering clips.

Tight communication
Behind the scenes, Ableton and Serato have implemented a two-way communication link to connect the programs. ATC's timing is ultra tight and it doesn't matter which program you open first.