I got a serious problem on my hands. Ive looked around and seen other posts on this however no one has seemed to answer this issue.
I use Mixed in Key to analyse the tempo and the key of each song. This info is written to my tracks. I important the tracks into traktor (without analyzing)
So far so good…
Problem: When I load a track into a deck, the analysis starts and its at this point that it changes the BPMs ive already calculated. I know analyze is important for peaks and what not but I dont want it tampering with my already calculated BPMs. for Example: I have a 90 BPM track, it analyzes and its either /2 or *2. I know you can change that in grid but I dont want to do that for each song. My entire collection is now being compromised each time I load a track into a deck.
First off, programs like Mixed in Key has been proven to be very wrong:
As far as our issue, I have heard stories of MIK messing with things such as ID3 tags and such, thus messing with Traktor imports and such. I suggest not using MIK. Sorry if that is not the answer you were looking for.
Get a keyboard and find the key yourself. Heck, you can even find online keyboards to play. That’s what I do on a plane or am somewhere where I don’t have my synth.
mess around with BPM detection range in the file management section of your preferences. I normally set the parameters so that the analyse function can’t detect the bpm as x2 or 1/2. then just reanalyse the tracks that were wrong.
I read that article and even though it claims that mixed in key didnt work as well im still up for testing it myself and seeing how it works out. I was BPMing my tracks 1 by 1 for over the last year and I decided to use MiK because I need to save time and be able to DJ or ill just turn into a librarian. As for getting the key myself. I don’t have any classical music training so for now I am unable to calculate it myself. I do have a good ear for music though so im willing to test out MiK and see what happens.
I did remove analyze on deck load except now I have a track that isnt analyzed for peaks in the mini browser below. Having the Striped waveform is essential.
Where do you set it so that it can’t detect and x2 or 1/2?? My BPM detections in both traktor and MiK are set from 60 - 190 because my music varies from Hiphop/R&B to soul, funk, drum-n-bass/jungle, acid jazz, so my numbers have been from mid 50’s all the way to 170s. I dont mind correcting a few tracks but this analyze problem is literally messing with ALL tracks.
I’m wondering, can this have anything to do with Id3 Tag versions?? because right now itunes it making all my tags at v 2.4 . When I was manually BPMing and writing my tracks one by one I was doing them in ver 2.3 and they didnt seem to get messed with.
just make that 60-190 ratio narrower to around the ball park for most of your songs. for me, I have it set to 115-138 because the majority of my tracks are tech-house and minimal. I also have a drum and bass folder, so when i’m loading that, I set it to 155-185.
Being a dj, odds are you know the approximate BPM of most of your tracks. if you have to do lots of music, separate your tracks into “fast”, “Medium” and “Slow” playlists and set the BPM detection parameters to a general ball park range, maybe 30 BPM in between the top and bottom of that range.
When your done, just go thru the track collection and fix any of the tracks that are still wrong.
Btw, I use mixed in key and the id3 tags don’t affect the BPM detection by traktor
My issue is mainly with Traktor analyzing my BPMs when I just want it to leave my files alone. Is there a way to have it just analyse the waveform and not touch the BPM? With some HipHop and electronic music its tuff because I have several albums which play around 150-170 but have a track or 3 that are just 70-80. I’m alright with the BPMs im getting from MiK, I just want traktors hands off my already BPM’d files.
Personally, when I use the mixed in key, i only use it to determine the key and I don’t write new id3 tags. I determine the BPM inside of traktor because that is what enables you to use the sync function, or, in the case of timecoding, lets you use that little bar above the waveform to visually tell if your tracks are in time.
You can’t turn off the the bpm detection in traktor because the beatgridding function (“striped waveform”) IS the BPM detection. Also, traktor cannot read MIK’s bpm detection.
Ahhh ok then that makes sense.
Do you know of any reliable BPMing programs besides traktor that will calculate the BPM and that traktor wont touch the BPM.
I know it won’t touch it for some because when I was manually entering them with a seperate ID3 tag editor and it was to 1 decimal place, traktor wasnt changing them when they were analyzed.
I’m sorry if I missed it, but why do you need to have a separate program tell you the BPM when traktor will do that anyway? I used MIK for all my songs, but I have it only tell me the key. And locking the BPM should solve your problem like Padi said.
So far from what I know, I have to load the track into the deck in order to lock it. How would I do bulk locks because loading one by one will take forever.
Im not using traktor because even though its more accurate, the BPMs come out as either /2, exact, or x2 the actual amount and I want no maintenance right now because I find im spending more time calculating then actually DJing. Also from what I have read on these boards, a lot of people say that traktor’s BPM calculations are horrible and inaccurate.
Traktor’s really pretty good and you even say yourself it’s more accurate. You can bulk lock the BPM by selecting all of the tracks, right clicking and clicking enable BPM lock.
Try changing the BM detection range in preference like garygary suggested and see if that fixes your incorrect BPM problem.
The software that ships with the S4 controller is called the S4 software. NI has already said the Pro will be getting at least most if not all of the S4 features so hopefully this BM lock will be one of them.
