Originally Posted by
ClumsyMoe
Alright, I have a bit of a situation. Nothing major but I wanted some input from people with more experience.
I've recently started practicing mixing a lot more, and am almost getting decent at it. I use traktor and a VCI 100 SE (which is fantastic, by the way), but before that I just used traktor with a regular qwerty keyboard and mouse. Back then when I would mix I would use the sync button in traktor to get the songs at the same speed, but then manually cue the songs and get them in sync. Now that I have a cool controller, I think I should be trying to beatmatch completely manually.
So my main problem is what and what not to turn off in traktor. I'd prefer to have it at the same level as if I was using two CDJs, so I would probably have the tracks starting BPM displayed. Problem is I don't know if it shows the BPM after the tempo has been changed, a quick look at a CDJ picture shows that the BPM bit doesn't have any decimal places, so I'd guess no. I'd also probably turn off the phase bar thing, though I've come to rely on that a bit. I also usually run traktor at +-35%, which means the pitch faders aren't all that fine, I'd just change it down to +-8% if I didn't use such large tempo changes so often. Maybe if traktor had a setting for 16%+- or something...
Finally, why not just use sync? I don't really want to start an argument about this, personally I think for the kind of mixing I'm doing (just your normal mix one song into another, not tons of cool effects and controllerism, and what-not) that I shouldn't be using sync. That said, I tried mixing with the BPM and on screen pitch fader whatever it is turned off but the phase meter on, and it seems like it's in the same boat as sync. It does require more work though, so maybe that counts.
Cliffs: noob got used to halfway using sync, needs to cut that out. What do?
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