benson On the one hand you have loopy saying she should get a break because she is female and autistic, and on the other Francois K pointing out that any traces can still be beat matched no mater what the purported bpm showing on the CDJ is
I don’t see how her being female and autistic has any relevance to anything - she is a skilled music producer and has performed hundreds of gigs where she actually played her tracks live on stage using gear like Roland samplers and keyboards, plus FX pedals, and has produced in Garageband and Ableton, so it’s hardly as if she’s technically illiterate when it comes to music equipment or a novice at performing on stage.
She did appear to cut plenty of corners in trying to play a DJ gig though and hadn’t got her head around it before giving it a shot.
During the set she even said that she’d got someone else to sort out her music in Rekordbox for her and that she was trying to play the set using the sync function.
Now, I don’t own any CDJs and have never used Rekordbox in my life, but the most plausible explanation I read for what the issue she had probably was is that whoever imported her music in to Rekordbox had set the BPM range in the analysis settings too low/narrow eg 80-140 bpm. Thus the faster tracks she had (she said some were meant to be DnB or DnB influenced for example) were outside the given range and so ended up getting analysed and marked in Rekordbox at half their tempo, e.g. a DnB track would get labelled 80bpm instead of 160. Therefore when she then tried to play that track in her set at maybe 150bpm it was played at near double the speed.
Obviously the issue would have been irrelevant if she could just beatmatch, but who has the time to learn to do that?!
I was a tad disappointed to see her get in such a mess and approach a DJ set with such a lack of care, though there is also a part of me which wonders if the whole thing wasn’t done on purpose as a publicity stunt. She did also enter the stage on a giant robotic spider after all ffs.
But it would also be funny if it was her Tale of Us bf she’d got to sort out Rekordbox for her and he had genuinely accidentally caused her to be embarrassed in front of so many - if so then the conversation they would have had after that would have been a joy to witness.
