Getting round out-of-phase beatgrids in Traktor

[ImNoDJ]

With digital DJing you either need to set your grids correctly OR you need to be able to beatmatch totally manually using only your ears, to get out of the problems caused by faulty grids.

These are your only two choices.

[calgarc]

I make sure all my tracks are properly grided and saved within 24 hours of buying the tracks

[frankle]

Re-grid on the fly, then set another cue as a load point on the same spot. It takes seconds to do and you'll get through the tracks you're playing quicker than you think.

After a few gigs (yes I do mine while I'm playing) you'll look back on those few seconds spent on each track and shake your head at how easy it all was!

Also remember to hit the padlock so that it keeps the grid/bpm info, it's also a good visual to know what tracks you've done.

[kooper1980]

^^agreed. People are making this way more difficult and time consuming than it needs to be.

Assuming your grid marker is cue point one:

Press cue point 1, delete, go to first beat. Set cue point, change to grid marker. That takes less than 10 seconds to do. And you should only need to do this on the rare occasions that Traktor gets it wrong (assuming that you aren't mixing live drum tracks).

[Jester]

It takes 5-10 seconds to manually grid a track. Half the time i do it during a set, no biggy.

[Lanz the joiner]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll definitely look into this manual regrid solution.

Yesterday, I figured out how to do what I wanted...

Is there a way to press the play button that will ignore the beatgrid information? So that it plays when I tell it to play, as if I were 'releasing' the vinyl?

- Press "Play"
- Turn on "Jog Touch" (this stops the track like a vinyl)
- Go to the first beat
- Turning off "Jog Touch" releases the vinyl, independent of any beatgrid information.

[MalcolmDeXXX]

I don't even know how to re-grid using Traktor for iPad...so I just use my ears.

[ImNoDJ]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll definitely look into this manual regrid solution.

Yesterday, I figured out how to do what I wanted...


- Press "Play"
- Turn on "Jog Touch" (this stops the track like a vinyl)
- Go to the first beat
- Turning off "Jog Touch" releases the vinyl, independent of any beatgrid information.

All you need to do is turn off quantise. That snaps your button presses to the beatgrid.

Read your manual.

[Lanz the joiner]

With digital DJing you either need to set your grids correctly OR you need to be able to beatmatch totally manually using only your ears, to get out of the problems caused by faulty grids.

These are your only two choices.

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All you need to do is turn off quantise. That snaps your button presses to the beatgrid.

Have you actually tried turning off quantize yourself to see if it makes a difference? As you may know, it has already been suggested earlier in this thread. I tried it and it didn't make Traktor play when I asked it to. It changed the behaviour of laying Cue points and stuff, but not the Play button.

If this quantize option does work, then it looks like there are only four choices.

[ImNoDJ]

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Have you actually tried turning off quantize yourself to see if it makes a difference? As you may know, it has already been suggested earlier in this thread. I tried it and it didn't make Traktor play when I asked it to. It changed the behaviour of laying Cue points and stuff, but not the Play button.

If this quantize option does work, then it looks like there are only four choices.

Sorry, i meant SNAP and Quantise.

Read. Your. Manual.

I never use snap, quant or sync but i know what they do because I.read.the.manual.

:P