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Digital DJ Tips reader Tait writes: “I’m new to the world of DJing. I have a Traktor Kontrol S4 and am wanting to learn to beatmatch manually. I’ve watched your video on this topic and a few others too. I was wondering if it’s a bad idea to be watching / referencing the phase meter above the waveform in Traktor Pro (I’m assuming that’s the phase meter – unless I’m completely off the mark). I’d really appreciate your view on this.”
I have 0 experience on how to Dj but I really want to learn how to. Only thing I have is the free version of Virtual Dj and watched some videos on it and everything seems so confusing and complicated but it should be easy getting use to after I get down the very basic of the basic. I've seen questions about recording Spotify tracks in DJay Pro a number of times in this sub, since the software doesn't allow it natively. I use DJay Pro when mixing at home and have recently been looking for an easy plug & play solution for recording sets. Beatmatch the two songs and align the right song with the left song at the point where you would like to perform the crossfade. (See the next section for tips on how to choose the crossfade point.) When playback reaches the moment you wish to bring in the right song/deck, move the. Dec 17, 2016. Parallel waveforms mode to visually check if your tracks are synced. Quantize feature: hot cues and loops are automatically set on the beat. Smart-seek: tap on the waveform to fast.
Digital DJ Tips says:
Our view is that it’s fine to do that, after all as far as we’re concerned anything that helps is great! Just be aware that if you ever have to mix using CD players or cross media players, you won’t have this luxury – so it’s always a good idea to practise sometimes beatmatching without using aids. You may be interested to know that in some other DJ software, instead of having phase meters, they often stack the waveforms above each other or overlay them in different colours, so you can match the beats visually. This is what we call “waveriding”.
Also, don’t get caught staring all the time at your phase meters (or waveforms) – laptop DJs often get accused of staring at their screens instead of interacting with the crowd, and this is often the reason! But a quick glance at the phase meters in conjunction with using your headphones? Perfectly OK.
What do you think? Is it fine to use visual aids to help beatmatching? Have you learned to mix using them and wish you hadn’t, or do you beatmatch manually and make a point of never using visual aids in your software? Please share your views below.