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Rekordbox is OK at correctly analyzing BPMs and setting beatgrids. I feel like i find myself correcting a lot of them. Is it just me or does serato DJ do a better job at this? For example, right now i have a track in rekordbox that is saying it's at 121.51 BPM with the beatgrids lined up. But in serato DJ the same track is at 122 with aligned beatgrids. If i try to change the track from 121.51.
Knowing the BPM (beats per minute) of your music is of course essential for both understanding better where various genres of music fit on the BPM scale and also for mixing those tunes together once you know.
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Nearly all the software people DJ with automatically calculates the BPM of your music for you – it’s part of the loading time taken when you drag a new track onto a DJ deck in Virtual DJ, Traktor or Serato etc.
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But what if you don’t have DJ software yet? What if you don’t want your whole collection in your DJ software? What if you just want to fill in the BPM ID3 tag of your files in iTunes?
Luckily, there’s a little-known free program that will do that (and only that) for you. It’s from the makers of DJ mix automation software Mixmeister, and it’s called BPM Analyzer. It’s available for PC and Mac, and you can get it from here:
It couldn’t be simpler to use – you just drag and drop your files and watch MixMeister BPM Analyzer review them one by one.
I’d recommend running it overnight if you’ve got a big collection – and don’t forget to ask your iTunes (or whatever library software you use) to rescan the ID3 tags of your MP3s once you’re done. The reason is that some software (including iTunes) doesn’t do this automatically.
Have you got any little free pieces of software that you couldn’t live without? Let us know in the comments.
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As far as I know there is no way of transferring beat-grid information between different bits of DJ software.. and the time it therefore takes is the only major downside to Digital DJing (or would you rather burn CDs or – even worse – have to pack crates of vinyl every time you had a gig?)
Is there not a way to just make Traktor/Serato to read thee tags that MIK applies and not re-analyse the bpm itself?
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I use Cross and I can set what I want the software to analyse (only the beatgrid in my case, BPM and key come from MiK).
I have mine set for 75 to 165 or so. Anything more I won’t play, anything less will have my audience falling asleep.
The only really important thing to do is a quick check of the highest and lowest BPM tracks. Sometimes 160 BPM tracks are displayed as 80 or the other way around, 75 BPM tracks that are actually 150.
You want to edit those values.
I have mine set to 60-170. Yes there is some overlap (IE 120 bpm tracks can be counted as if they were 60) but I play from 70-160 as min/max values.. So this lets me have everything set so that I can see if something is slightly out of range..
I do the same as Vintage though – check every analysis and double/half the ones that it counts wrong.. and re-config the beat map fairly often so that it is on beat 1 when it says it is as well.. 🙂
bob6397
Yep, probably the only thing that became more time-consuming in digital compared to vinyl/CDs, preparation work 😀
As far as I know there is no “BPM as it is supposed to play at”. If a tag is already in there, it just means they provided that information. It’s a valid question. The DJ Software, when using sync, will set both tracks to the same BPM. If the BPM that comes with the track is slightly (and it never should be more than a few hundredths of beat) different from the beatgrid, then while it will start on the appropriate (down)beat, it will run off slightly. I am not sure for every DJ Software if it automatically updates the BPM info to match it beatgrid. But even if it doesn’t, it makes most sense to keep those two linked for syncing purposes.
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