Can Ableton and Traktor use the same song library - warping beatgrid saves

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Can Ableton and Traktor use the same song library - warping beatgrid saves

I have always used Ableton but starting to mess around with Traktor because it seems a little better for impromptu mixing.

My question is, I have my folder with all my songs warped in Ableton and I don’t want to point Traktor towards it because it seems to do some automatic stuff reading the files when it boots up. I don’t want it to ruin my Ableton warped songs. So I duplicated my song folders, but that seems like a mess.

Can I have Traktor and Abelton access the same songs in the same location without either program messing with the warping/beatgrid data.

I know Ableton makes a little ASD file for each song, but not sure yet what Traktor does.

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go into PREFERENCES > FILE MANAGEMENT in Traktor and UN-CHECK the two ANALYZE new tracks options.

I think this is what you want.

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Thanks, that will help.

I’m just curious if I have a track already warped in Abelton, if saving it with Traktror will mess it up. I guess I’ll do some trial and error. I know with Mixed in Key, it says to warp the tracks after you do mixed in key, because whatever tags it adds to the MP3/Wav messes up the warping in Ableton.

Hopefully they will play nice with each other, I’m not looking forward to having to keep two separate song libraries.

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Ableton stores the warp info in a separate .asd file. So you will not cause any havoc using the same audio files for Traktor and Ableton Live, or ITunes. Or WinAmp and so on…