Looking for software that can play through my collection, but at a set BPM
I typically record my house podcasts at slower speeds. Some as low as 112bpm. Consequentially, some songs sound better than others at this speed.
I’d love a way to listen through my collection at a set BPM. For example, it would be awesome if I could pull up Rekordbox/VirtualDJ/etc, select my entire library (or at least a playlist), and have it play through. That’s not asking much for any music library, but I’d love if the BPM could be fixed instead of changing per track.
Can anyone think of any work-arounds to do this, and in which systems? Something so I don’t have to load each individual track and then set the BPM?
Caveat: this isn’t for live-DJ’ing. This is for simply listening to my tracks at home while I cook, for example. Just getting to know my collection better.
Yes, cruise mode will just play through all of the songs in a playlist in order.
I use cruise mode all the time for mobile gigs. I’ve got a few different early night playlists set up depending on the age range of the crowd and the event, all about 3 hours longs. I then just select the appropriate one, load the first track to deck a, second track to deck b, play deck a and then hit the cruise button. Traktor will then automatically crossfade between then songs. You can change the time of the crossfade in the settings. Note that the crossfade only works properly when mixing in internal mode, in external mode it just plays the tracks with a bit of an overlap, and this is the only reason I use internal mixing.
You can also set fade in and fade out markers and Traktor will then just play between the two when in cruise mode. Noce for when you have long intros or outros you don’t want to play.
You can try these to see if they do what you want.
Not sure you can set mixmeister to play at 1 specified tempo. Think it automatically fades between the tempos. You’d have to specifically set the tempo on every track to be the same, which sort of defeats the purpose.
I use cruise mode all the time for mobile gigs. I’ve got a few different early night playlists set up depending on the age range of the crowd and the event, all about 3 hours longs. I then just select the appropriate one, load the first track to deck a, second track to deck b, play deck a and then hit the cruise button. Traktor will then automatically crossfade between then songs. You can change the time of the crossfade in the settings. Note that the crossfade only works properly when mixing in internal mode, in external mode it just plays the tracks with a bit of an overlap, and this is the only reason I use internal mixing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah will have to look at that… As of now I normally bring 2 setups with me to mobile gigs one for my vdj autopilot most tracks and another for when I get to where I can actually mix… Having traktor runing on one would be optimal… Can you resume and it pickup where you left off in the playlist after disabling or does it just restart…
Alternatively i assume if I load the next track in other deck and hit cruise it should just pickup from that track I assume?
According to a answer to a question asked on their forums:
“change the bpm at the beginning of the timeline and then don’t add any tempo markers. all consequent tracks will be sped up or slowed down to match the (master) tempo. btw: make sure your transitions are set to beatmix full or something similar.”
If you turn off cruise mode it will just continue to play the current song. When resuming/starting it’s a bit finicky sometimes if you don’t have 2 tracks directly one after another in a playlist loaded into the decks, then it will just carry on playing from whichever playlist the first track is in. I always make sure that I have 2 tracks loaded that are next to each other in a playlist before engaging cruise.
NOTE: I still use 2.1.2 at my gigs, so this may have changed in more recent versions…
Yes Traktor LE is bundled with some NI hardware I think but don’t think you can buy it - try the Buy/Sell thread - someone must have a copy somewhere - or you can download a demo from NI’s site.
You can aggregate the soundcards in the CDJ’s on your macbook and they have HID support, so basically they perform similar to using them without a computer.
So set up as normal but with USB from each CDJ into your macbook and off you go
The advantage is all your music at hand and if you buy a cheap controller you can access other features of Traktor depending on your style - have a look at the F1 or X1 - they come with a voucher you could put towards buying Traktor Pro.
No - you use the mixer as normal - instead of the ‘sound’ coming from a cd it somes from the laptop - everything else will work pretty much as it does now.
Check this out - explains it better than I can when I’m drunk:
