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Steve, on 07 Jan 2015 - 1:54 PM, said: Dubba Dutchdj, on 05 Jan 2015 - 8:58 PM, said: Accurate beat grids are vital for, loops, fx, and copying/truncating tracks to remix decks. It's good practise to lock a grid once you know its tight as future updates of Traktor may try to re-analyse said track. When activated the BPM is locked and a padlock shows up next to the track in the browser window. Definitely! Unfortunately, I've not had as much luck as you with the automatic beat gridding. I find that it sucks the vast majority of the time and it leaves me feeling like I did when I had a digital music collection that wasn't properly tagged. It took me literally years to get that in order. If the beat gridding was successful 90+% of the time then I would use the features of Traktor a lot more, but I just can't be arsed to fix all of the janky grids manually. I haven't used the sync feature for regular mixing, but I have used it while pissing about with other things, for example, taking a sample (say, someone singing) and putting it on a loop, then changing the length of that loop, adding effects, scratching the sample - using sync/snap/quantise means that everything stays in time even if you press a button or turn a knob a fraction out of time, and it's nice to be able to hit the sync button to knock things back into line if you scratch the sample and release it slightly out, given that you might be using short loops and you need to correct things as quickly as possible. It's probably the music I play that fucks up the beat gridding. With dance music that has a clear and steady beat it works well, with hip-hop it generally works OK, but with soul/R&B/funk it's shite in my experience and even the first cue point - the automatic one that's supposed to be at the beginning of the track - is out most of the time. Steve, i thought it was just me being blonde. Many many times i've thought about messaging and saying any chance you could beat grid this track for me but thought i should leave you alone. Beat gridding is still on my list stuff to do since i moved to traktor, i've done it with limited success. right here's my ten pence worth. recently bought the Z2 mainly to get Traktor and full midi capabilities. I've had it a few months now after selling my 57sl in order to get the z2. actually was left with some money in my pocket which was nice. Strangely enough i read the manual on Wednesday from start to finish and found a couple of little tricks. 1. if you press shift and sync you can set either A or B to master. can be useful if you switch tracks abit and confuse Traktor on which is the master. (one less use of mouse) 2. hold shift and turn effect knob(either A or B) above the on switch will cycle through your effect. (useful) 3. when you set a loop which i think you would of worked out by yourself. if you hold shift and move the loop length define knob it will move the loop backwards or forward. 4. hold shift and the on/off effect button it changes fx from post fader to i think it's called pre but you get what i'm saying i hope. I've just bought a Maschine Mikro in order to map some of the other functions, but like someone else has said Traktor is a complicated beast. I've finally managed to map some functions but other are stumping me. If i was you play around with the mixer and if required get another midi device to map some further functions. I’ve used the remix decks, and I’m in the process of trying to map them. I’ve not managed to find a way of turning effect section C/D on and away of assigning to diffrent channels yet but will once I get through my list of stuff to learn. Traktor although it can be a pain in the arse, it's made me learn stuff i never would of bothered with. any question feel free to message me i'll be happy to help.

Go to a non D&B night and then make sure you have done so many drugs that you don't notice people asking you?

Here's a little downloadable multitrack scratch track I mustered together today https://soundcloud.com/chile/patience The loop is also downloadable if you like it - https://soundcloud.com/chile/rail-tracer-loop-92bpm