Impossible beatgrid tracks?

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Impossible beatgrid tracks?

Have you guys ever found yourself facing this type of tracks? Generally rock or other genre that’s not EDM.

I’m having some trouble with Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way, i could use this track in so many ways on my sets that would be insane.

What’s the problem? The BPM? the genre itself? the grids? UHUH!)#@!

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Live drummer is the problem or really not the problem since it was meant to be like that. Normally called swing. All electronic music is produced on a machine so it’s perfect to calculate BPM. Your best bet is to take your track into ableton WARP it then export as a .WAV and then add to Traktor.

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Yeah, i was thinking about doing that, i certainly will. Thanks.

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Some electronically produced music also has swung out drums. I don’t think I’ve found any house tracks that do but I have found some hip-hop and pop stuff that does, to the point where you can’t beatgrid it.

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nudge the jog wheel, be a happy camper.

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Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (Laidback Luke Remix)

Essentially the original with some ridiculously heavy drops… That’ll do?

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This

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Goes out every few seconds, I’d nudge it the whole time, but damn it’ll sound like shit live.

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You could do hrtbrkd’s suggestion or try adding multiple/several beatgrids on the song. The latter may or may not work so well, it would depend on how much the song drifts in tempo.

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Can you add multiple beat grids to a song? I didn’t know but that makes sense for a transition track etc.

I am dealing with this with an EDM track right now. I CANNOT get a good grid on it. Drives me crazy.

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Just took a look at the original song. It’s a live recording. The only way to set a perfect beatgrid is to quantize the song.

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i actually don’t really know how to beatgrid songs, so i’m stil stuck at L’amour - Bingo Players

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If you warp a song just do intro and outro loops so the entire song doesn’t loose it’s feel.

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If you don’t have jog wheels I’d recommend warping the track. I can do it for you if you want. It only takes about 1 minute to warp a track in Ableton. PM me for deets.