Incorrect BPM in traktor for dubstep track
When I load dubstep tracks in my traktor. 75% of the time it gets set to the wrong bpm around 70 to 90 bpm. Most dubstep bpm range from 140-170. Where can I manually change the dubstep tracks bpm to the correct one.
Traktor recognizes them as 70BPM rather than 140BPM because the drums are in half time, you can beatgrid them at 140BPM instead which I prefer because its a lot easier to go from 125-130BPM to 140 rather than all the way down to 70, see YouTube for tutorials on beatgridding.
i have never heard a dubstep track at 170bpm
Read some of the many threads on beatgridding and perhaps watch some of the many videos on beatgridding too.
Most dubstep is circa 140bpm, so narrowing your bpm detection range should do the trick. Check the manual.
At 170 bpm you are probably thinking of drum and bass.
Click the ‘x2’ button in the advanced beatgridding panel bit to quickly go from 70bpm beat gridded to 140
I’ve never heard a dubstep track not at exactly 140.000.
Going from 130 to 140 is exactly the same as if you were going from 130 to 70, since 70 is just 140 in half time. No idea how the sync button treats this case but if you take sync out of the picture (and use your ears) it shouldn’t matter what your software thinks the bpm is.
Personally I’d still label the track 140 so that it’s easier to keep organized and will show up next to the rest of your 140 bpm tracks.
The only thing i dont really like about settting dubstep/drumstep to 140/175 is that it really screws with the beat masher…1/4 notes are 1/8 notes and 1/2 notes become 1/4 notes so it takes a bit of getting used to, especially if you are using a midi fighter or any midifighter mapping.
I like my dnb at 85-ish because of the effects issue, but dubstep at 140-ish works fine for me. I try not to overdo the beatmasher anyway, heh…
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I think that a dubstep track produced at 141 or 69 bpm or so, is actually not dubstep anymore. Not that anyone will notice the difference.
So basicly if you have 140ish or 70ish bpm, something 's wrong.
EDIT: To clarify (KISS)
70 bpm or 140 bpm: It is dubstep
ANYTHING else (140.01 for example): edit beatgrid
what?
there is no rule that dubstep has to be exactly 140/70
Set the playhead on the one and reset the beat grid. That SHOULD give you the correct BPM, as good as the detection is on Traktor, sometimes you have to give it a little nudge in the right direction 
What utter rubbish. Alot of dubstep tunes I play are gridded perfectly at 69/138bpm and 72/144bpm. You are talking out your ass.
So what would you call it then?
Of course it is Dubstep, and the higher bpm 160-170 songs are generally called Drumstep.
70 / 140 bpm. grid them the way you feel comfy about. some like their dubstep at 70 and some at 140 bpm. i for myself grid them in the 130-150 range since i can mix them more easily into techno/electro or into dnb. i´d say if you´re a more hip hop playing guy it´d be best to grid them at 70 bpm since a lot of hip hop is considered to be in the 60-100 bpm range.
but at the end of a day it matters, that you can mix your tracks and if you set grids, that you´ve set them correctly…
edit:
oh and for the record. there are dubstep tunes out there that are 120 bpm and tunes that 150 bpm. 140 or 70 bpm is the most common tempo for a dubstep tune.
Tempos are still just suggestions of how things are supposed to be interpreted from sheet music, which usually doesn’t come into play with electronic music at all.
70 vs. 140 depends on how you’d transcribe it–if you were going to–and what time signature you use.
The effects argument is the only good one I’ve ever heard for dubstep being at 70, because I hear quarter-notes at 140 when I listen to it and would think of mixing it with breaks or even trance long before hip hop, even if hip hop makes more sense with regard to everything except tempo.
And I still haven’t imported one into Traktor that wasn’t exactly 70/140. But I don’t spin that much dubstep.
Drumstep is usually around that speed.
which is why its refered to as drumstep, not dubstep