Mix Club - The Remedial Class

Dubman

Mad_Cyril
Don’t forget key lock as well.

Mad_Cyril

Dubman Key Lock?

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

mono-stereo

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.

Mad_Cyril

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

Along_the_Wire

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.

Dubman

Mad_Cyril
Changing the tempo of a track can change the key.

Mad_Cyril

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 👍

Dubman

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

Along_the_Wire

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

The master tempo button…

303abuser

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.

Dubman

303abuser

https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/how-to-understanding-key-and-tempo-in-harmonic-mixing.45849/#:~:text=Even%20the%20smallest%20tempo%20change,to%20a%20whole%20new%20one.&text=If%20your%20original%20song%20was,give%20you%20G-Flat%20Minor.

303abuser

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

Mad_Cyril

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.

erik

Along_the_Wire which over +/- 4% pitch makes drums sound muddy

Unbroken1

…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

Mad_Cyril

Unbroken1
Get this, and agree.

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

Mad_Cyril

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?

Matt

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.

ArchimedesQ

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.

Homegrove

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.

Mad_Cyril

Homegrove

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

Homegrove

I do both. Still use Traktor occasionally.

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