In one of the more cryptic pre-launch announcements in recent months, the makers of Ableton Live and Serato Scratch Live have issued a press release, launched a website and are throwing a party to let the world know that they're doing... something.

Reading between the lines from the sparse (and extremely old) statement issued at ableton-serato.com, it appears that Ableton has vinyl-emulation envy and Serato has event-trigger envy. How to mix these two aspirations together - well, it's not hard to use your imagination to think up some potentially wonderful and some potentially disastrous mash-ups here.

Scouring my sources, it appears that the two companies will be launching a joint product this week (yes, that much was obvious). Seriously though, a hat-tip to corporate security because no one seems to be clear on the details or what this will mean for existing users of Serato and Ableton Live. Some interesting speculation at the excellent dv247 blog though.