Problems with Pitch & BPM in Traktor Remix Decks using Acapella Samples
First of all- Thanks for having me on the forum, avid DJTT reader and watcher & it’s about time I planted myself on the site. Secondly, I apologise in advance if this is in the wrong place/has already been answered/ is a stupid question
Basically, I’v cut up some short acapella phrases from a Fort Minor track that I plan to use over my sets & placed them in the Remix deck, but I’m having issues with the pitch & tempo.
Some of the samples play really slow, and some play really quick. My geuss is that this is due to Traktor not detecting the right BPM. I’v placed the samples on standard decks to check the BPM and Traktor is indeed getting them wrong (rightfully so, who can detect the BPM of a 0.5 second acapella phrase?) Some are at 108BPM for example, others at 86, 78, 106.2 etc.
I know the acapella is 85BPM. Is there a way of me bypassing the Traktor detection and setting them at 85BPM? will this fix my problem? I currently have a remix deck with acapella samples of the same voice, but many different pitches and speeds, there’s no consistency there whatsoever
It worked great when I hotcued the full acapella in a separate deck, but I’d really like the freedom of having the phrases that I use, in the remix decks, ready to pull out at any point.
Is this just a stupid question that has you taking one look at it and rolling your eyes? haha
I know there is a way to beatgrid myself and set the BPM, but how do I do this on individual samples as opposed to the main clock? is there a trick I can do to set the BPM myself? Or am I completely missing the point haha? I may just change one of the remix decks for a standard deck and cue my acapella samples like that, but this is going to confuse things & I will have to do a lot more midi mapping, using the remix decks is something I would really like considering I already use them for oneshots. Thanks!
Key lock is indeed enabled, thought that was the problem at first, turned it on with no difference.
It’s not the pitch as such that’s the problem, it’s definitely the tempo, some of my samples play really slowly, and some play really quickly, regardless of what the main BPM is set at/if keylock is on.
Happy days, nice to be getting help from a long time member
and thanks, when I’m back at my laptop I’l give that a try, hopefully I’l be able to change the BPM of all the samples using the BPM at the bottom?
Viewed the full remix deck, clicked each sample, set them all from their ridiculous BPM’s to the original 85, and problem solved. Thanks for all the help
Another issue has arisen though that I was hoping you may be able to help me query. I have the remix deck samples mapped up to a Korg PadKontrol, using each pad to trigger each sample (or “select” them so I can trigger them from my main controller) and it intermittently fails to work. It will be triggering the samples fine one minute, Il then use a hotcue or start an effect or go to a different page on the padkontrol, and when I come back to using the remix samples nothing happens when I hit the pad. It’s like it briefly forgets my midi mapping, only to work again like five minutes later? Is this a mapping issue, maybe down to me not using the F1? or something else… The pad isn’t faulty as it works perfectly with everything else at all times including hour long drumming sessions with VST’s. I’m confused and it’s having me at a wits end, loving triggering samples on the fly and then boom, nothing.
I assume your mappings are set to ALL PORTS? If not than some of your controllers isn’t Traktor friendly and the mapping is directly exposed to all 16 MIDI channels so it’s picking up some signals that are making conflicts in the mapping.
Solved that now too. I had it mapped to Device Target as opposed to Remix Deck C, Traktor didn’t know which remix deck I wanted to use and made it’s own mind up on the matter, attempting to trigger an empty remix deck (atleast I think that’s what it was)
I don’t know what the practice is in this forum, but if you close solved threads, this can now be closed. Thanks again
