Time Jump - Can Traktor do this?
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    Default Time Jump - Can Traktor do this?

    I know that Traktor has the beat jump feaature (which is extremely useful). Howeverm I was wondering if it has a time jump feature. Like "jump" 15 seconds forward or backward.

    This would have 2 main implementations for me:

    1. When I mix rock metal songs into my electro sets, I cannot really grid them since they were recorded live in a studio and the tempo fluctuates a tad. So, say, starting to mix in s build in the background that is 15 seconds away from the last note/beat/etc. of the rock song and 15 seconds till the build ends would be most useful. I did it once without a "time jump" in a recorded mix, but it was quite difficult and nearly messed the whole transition up if I had not timed it correctly.

    2. When mixing genres of edm with 2 distinct different BPMS (say...128 electro with 108 moombahton), having the be in sync with their cooldowns would be an efficient way of transitioning between the two.

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    well, the whole 15 seconds thing is super subjective, because lots of tracks have A LOT of different tempos. the only thing i can say is that you need to get more creative with your beatjump mappings, like maybe making a modifier that makes it hit the beat jump +8, 4 times instead of one.
    I know what you mean by wanting to skip around. normally to do that, i just play with the +8 and the +1 beatjump until it lines up

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    just use beatjump/ cue points. I manually set looped cue points when the timing is slightly off on some things

    don't know if this is helpful

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    If you dig around the articles from the "home section" Ean has an article on mixing in rock tunes.


    He create manual loops that has an loop-out point that will be in sync with the track carrying the beat. Maybe you should check that out.


    Now, I just tried to look at but I couldnt find it, its in there somewhere. Man, searching for articles absolutely sucks. I must be missing something. I use the search bar and it just displays the articles in chronological order starting with the latest?
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    Why don't you warp the tracks that have a dynamic bpm in Ableton and then render to audio?
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    A 'time jump' of a whole second would not be musical in 99% of situations
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    You can also lay down more than one beat grid....
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