DUBSTEP, 140, or 70

**wrong chris** · 05-02-2011, 04:36 AM

how dare you

**Buffalo Ill** · 05-02-2011, 04:37 AM

Originally Posted by fep

A mate of mine always grids his dubstep tracks at 70 and DnB around 87.5 and I can't for the life of me understand why.

Probably because pretty much all of the BPM finding software out there uses algorithms that detect faster BPM's at 1/2 their original value.

**Jester** · 05-02-2011, 04:39 AM

well if you can count to 2, you should be ok.

**fullenglishpint** · 05-02-2011, 04:53 AM

*waiting for someone to jump in and have a rant about thie sync button.....*

**theory28** · 05-02-2011, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by fullenglishpint

I can't for the life of me understand why.

the bpm range in your prefs is probably something like 50 - 135

OP, i think what probably got you mad was that the snare was on the 3rd beat

**dj stifffy** · 05-02-2011, 07:04 AM

I usually go with the bigger number since i love the sync button, and cant be botherd to mess with my settings if i go from a dubstep song to house song itll make the house song real slow it its 70 so its easier to have it at a closer bpm, ino there prob is a setting to click but it works already so why change it

**Bassline Brine** · 05-02-2011, 08:10 AM

140.

I have a buddy who just goes with whatever Traktor decides, and doesn't grid his tracks. He mixes by ear, but whenever I look at his program, it just drives me absolutely insane. His music collection is no better either, shit's in the most random spots.

Some people are anal about getting it set up correctly, others just do whatever. Such is life.

But it's 140. Anyone telling you otherwise is nuts. Will it work gridded at 70? Yes, but other things will be funky (and not in a good way).

**fullenglishpint** · 05-02-2011, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by theory28

the bpm range in your prefs is probably something like 50 - 135

It's not my dubstep that's at 140, it's my best mate's. And he uses VDJ :eek:

**exokinetic** · 05-02-2011, 09:33 AM

I have all my DnB in Traktor with half-time grids.

I prefer it because the beat counter is easier to time, because the beat counter itself is running at half-time.

And I don't like counting 8 beats per bar, 4 bars per phrase, 4 phrases per measure.

At half time its: 4 beats per bar, 4 bars per phrase, 4 phrases per measure.

I can also run a loop twice as long.

At 87.5, a 32 bar loop is twice as long as 32 bars at 175 bpm.

I also don't use any LFO or beat-synced effects, so I don't run into any problem there.