Comment 17 for bug 785939

It sounds like the Rane mixer behaves like a standard USB Audio device *until* Scratch talks to it, activates a proprietary driver, and says "ok, time to turn on all the cool features." So my conclusion is the mixer must be dual-mode and will require a special driver in order to work with Mixxx. Since the Rane/Serato people give away the Scratch software for free (they make money on these mixers and hardware), maybe we should ask them about the possibility of opening up the spec? The argument being, it will allow even more people to use/buy their hardware. Or will they think it's possible to use that information to create new hardware that would allow Scratch to run on non-Serato sound cards? (No one would actually do that, since making hardware has never been open source's strong suit and it would be an obvious lawsuit target)