Analyzing BPM in Traktor 2.

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Analyzing BPM in Traktor 2.

Hey Guys,

I recently have been trying to add hip hop to my arsenal of genre’s that I play. I’ve always usually loved and listened to a lot of hip hop and rap and such, and now I want to spin it as well.

The problem is my BPMs for hip hop are all over the place. I talked to DJ Streetfighta on here and he told me to re-analyze my BPM for my hip hop tracks and such separately from 60 bpm to 120 bpm. I was wondering what would be the most effective way to go about doing that?

I have also found a lot of my Dubstep tracks BPM have been displaying as if they are 70bpm instead of 140, I understand it’s half time and all Dubstep is in 140 (or maybe it’s vice versa I don’t remember) anyway is there anyway for me to fix that as well?

Thanks!

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In your preferences there’s a BPM range you can set. If you want all your dubstep to read out as 140, then set that range to 135-150. Sometimes it’ll be off and you’ll have to fix it, but change it around when you analyze other genres.

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this!

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Yes, but that sets the range for ALL tracks. How do I do just one genre?

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You don’t.

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It only sets it for that insant of running the analysis. If you change it the tracks already gridded won’t change.

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Ahh I gotcha. I’ll try it tonight!

And I had an epiphany on the way to school. I was like “why am I so focused on BPM of a track when I can simply beat match the tracks together by ear!” lol. I guess that’s another “symptom” of digital DJing :eek: :confused:.

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That’s true too. I use the BPM rating also as a form of understanding how the track feels. A song might be 140 bpm but it will feel 70.