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  • Mix Club - The Remedial Class

If i was gonna give advice to my younger novice self, it would be don’t play boring records just because they work together. Just play a load of tunes you love and know them inside out. No one in the real world really gives a fuck about the perfect mix, although it is great when you perfectly mash two tunes together.

    mono-stereo Have fucked the prog idea off now I’ve got a bit of a method.

    Dont mind a listen every now and then but fucking boring to play

      Dubman Key Lock?

      Is that like a child lock that stops me scaring off the cats with the racket?

          Ah!

          Think I’ve heard that happen a few times. But only going up/down 3 or 4 bpms.

          So there’s a magic button that stops ikeychanging with tempo.

          Something to Google after dinner 👍

            Mad_Cyril
            I few bpm’s shouldn’t matter so much. There should be something on your software.

              verify this because i haven’t done this in a long while, but i think 2-3 bpm is ok and you get semitone shifts after that. could be wrong though, like i said.

                mono-stereo outside of here, everyone thinks my shit mixes are the bollocks. I know they aren’t mind, but it’s a tough crowd in here and I think that’s a good thing.

                  …worth pointing out it can make tracks sound shitty if you push it too far, if you need to use it to key-match a track with more than +/- 4 difference on the pitch slider, consider choosing another track

                    Unbroken1
                    Get this, and agree.

                    From my limited experience, pushing more than +/- 3 or 4 feels too much.

                      Along_the_Wire
                      Found it.

                      There’s no button on the Fisher Price toys but it’s in the SW.

                      Going to just leave it on.

                        Dubman that’s the one i remember. the mixed in key software worked pretty well as i recall.

                          22 days later

                          For people out there using a controller/laptop (I’m with Recordbox), what do you use to store your tunes?

                          Been organising today (raining) and dawns on me i might need to consider something else than just laptop HDD.

                          If I use an external drive could I get latency issues?

                            I play only lossless-files so my SSD hard drive is always full. So I only keep current-stuff on my laptop, the rest is on portable hard drives. Never tried playing with an external hard drive.

                              Homegrove

                              Confused HG. Thought you had an XDJ / Mixer / External source setup? Do you DJ off a laptop?

                                I do both. Still use Traktor occasionally.

                                Mad_Cyril I keep the majority of my digital music collection (stuff I rarely listen to) on a couple of mirrored eternal hard drives. I’ve never tried using them with rekordbox. I haven’t even looked into it, mainly due to the fact that I assumed there would be an issue with latency.

                                I suggest you do what I did in the spring. Tell your Mrs that you need to splash out on a new super-duper laptop, with a massive SSD.

                                  Ha.

                                  Already have 4 laptops and an ipad pro in the house, literally don’t need any more.

                                  Will be more diligent moving stuff to an external I think. Half the stuff never gets listened to / played anyways!