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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!

          Recorded 45 minutes or so tonight.

          Surprised how bad most rransitions sound, obvious on the mix but cant really hear in real time.

          Need to figure how I can hear whats going on better!!

            Mad_Cyril I have 2 portable external hard drives 2TB each. I’m probably a bit unusual in the fact that everything is RB analyzed and in my rekordbox. Tagging is your friend. It’s the only thing that keeps 40K + tracks manageable.

            Mad_Cyril Are you using Rekordbox? If so don’t rely on the key analysis 100%. Mixed in Key is more accurate. If the harmonics on your transitions sound discordant it could be that.

            Mad_Cyril Have been battering away on a mix for a couple of months now, couldn’t quite get the selection right for a few different reasons. Spent a fair bit of time listening back on headphones, room speakers and car speakers, making sure the feel was right… just keep at it, it’ll come.

            Good example of this; it used to take me ages to get tracks in key, can do it pretty quick now, few seconds, just knock them up and down a few semi tones until they ‘click’.