Beat Grids On Live Music

[DvlsAdvct]

God damn t3h intArweb rumorz!

Well, Id love variable grids, but I don't think that's gonna be very handy for drift from live drummers (at least as handy as Warp is).

so yeah, um... HOPE!

[Karlos Santos]

Yeah im not convinced about variable grids myself. I think that may have just been a way of saying 'Warping' without stepping on any Ableton toes.
Time will tell.

[Monika.mhz]

Consensus!

Ride the pitch, or Ableton Warp!

[Karlos Santos]

Until Traktor Warp Mwahahahaha. Then i wont even utter the word Able-thingy..

For now im a pitch rider !!!

[Slackman25]

Yes if you could drop markers and adjust the tempo in the same way as ableton that would be a fantastic upgrade (come on NI this must be well within your capabilities)

[DvlsAdvct]

I don't think it's as simple as that. Ableton permanently changes the file. I couldn't see the resources of this, especially in a live situation, being a simple deal.

[UncleFunky]

Coming from 18 years of djing vinyl the transition to digital is tricky in respect of the hands on nudges and drags that I would use to keep an old disco in tempo during the mix.

I can do this well on vinyl, but far less successfully with my S4, making me far less adventurous when I mix digitally. I'm hanging to get a Traktor Scratch set up running.

[beisi]

Whats the deal with beat grids on live and old disco music that naturally drifts in tempo thoughout the track. Trying to put a beat grid on this type of track is a nightmare. Any help would be most appeciated.

Whilst not everyones cup of tea, Serato Itch & the new Serato DJ software has elastic beat grids kinda like ableton's warping. You can go through and stretch the grid out in places to account for drift. Can take a little while if its a really drifty track like a james brown funk song or something, but once its done you can just cue and forget.

[djproben]

Whooooooaaaaaaaa necrobump. I read the first two pages with an odd feeling of deja vu before I realized the thread was over three years old.

[UncleFunky]

Whooooooaaaaaaaa necrobump.