Beatgrid marker and beats per bar
Just a quick question when you lay down a beat grid marker does this make traktor counting beats from that point?
So if I accidently lay the beat grid marker say on beat 3 will traktor think that that marker marks the start of the bar?
hope that makes sense
Cheers all
Can’t say for definate as i’m unaware that traktor keeps track of bars as when quantised it just quantises to the nearest beat. Someone will prob come and blow me out the water here but thats my thoughts.
But another thing which makes me say this doesnt matter is in eans tutorials he tells you that its sometimes better to add the beat marker to the second beat or snare.
Traktor gives you beats to next cue point, so if I have a beat grid on what seems to be the first beat of the tune, and then say set a beat marker for the break then some times this is halfway through the bar, obviously using the ears is integral, but sometimes a visual reference is useful, so you’d know if your drop in was way off.
I’m also assuming that traktor would only count the beats from the first beat grid marker.
I know what you getting at mate. And im not sure what the answer is.
Give it a go. Make a Cue point and see how many Beats To next cue it gives you from the start of the track. Then Grid the track a few beats in and see if you get the same beat to next cue from the same start of the track.
ill give it a go in a bit if i get chance.
Hmm yeah Traktor sees the Grid marker as a Cue so the first Beats To Cue is to that grid marker . It then resets and gives you the reading from that marker.
So your hunch was right.
I see that as wrong. Grid Markers should not be counted in the Beats To Cue measurement.
Cheers Karlos
It’s only a little thing but it’s been doing my head in a little this past weekend.
I’ve finally got around to cue pointing some of my tracks as a reference to where to drop in the next track, so I then started to notice these variations, I’m currently beat gridding, and then going back to the beginning of the track and dropping another beat grid point, then deleting the original.
This then gives me cue point 1 at the beginning of the track (I’m using traktor 3.4) I’m then going from here and dropping points at 'meaningful places, and have then noticed this descrepency. I know that maybe I’m relying on the software a little too much in this respect but if it has the facility I’m going to use it
Going to have a look at some tracks tonight and try to come up with a solution, I’m guessing it’s going to be moving that first beatmarker to bring it all in line. As the other thing is that after the first break or what ever where I set the second cuepoint then the points seem to fall in the right places after that
i.e
Beat grid - 1st break might be 16.3bts
1st break to drop - 31.4
etc so it’s generally just that first section.
Seem to be spending all my time on beat grids at the moment, hey ho once it’s done it’s done hopefully
Yeah to be honest its not a feature ive ever used but i can see where it can be confusing.
Grid Markers have absolutely no use other than to grid the track i dont see why they should count in the BTC read out.
Unfortunately your on 3.4 so there wont be any change there.
Think ill point this out to NI for a possible change in Pro.
Just a tip, forgive me if you already know :
Make sure you do the “Write Tags Async” function on your tracks. This writes the Grid Info etc to the actual MP3 rather than just store it in Settings.
This will enable you yo carry your Mp3s with grids etc over to another computer and Read Tags or to Traktor Pro if you choose to upgrade.
Best way is to actually Select all your tracks in the collection, Right/Ctrl Click > Write Tags Async.
If you knew that just ignore it
Ha ha, yeah originally I was writing tags all the time, but recently after reading these foruims and messing around with the grids a lot I’ve been letting it slide… rememebered yesterday though! Hurrah.
Cheers forthe reminder though
I think you can turn on and off beats FROM cue, but I never use that function, only beats to cue.
Once it passes the beat marker it shouldn’t really factor into your read outs anymore. But I may be full of shit. I’ve just never seen this before.
There is only Beat To Cue or just Beats.
Never used either myself.
I use Beats to Cue a lot. But I’m curious as to what the problem he’s having is, really.
Yeah its not really a prob as Beats to Cue are just that no matter which point in the track you start from.
After a re-think this is a none problem. Its only an issue if you need to know BTC from the start of a track that has a Grid Marker a few beats in because BTC will be Beat To that Grid Marker not the Actual Cue point.
But who really needs to know BTC from the start of a track ? Maybe the O.P.
That’s exactly what I was trying to figure out.