I know that Traktor has the beat jump feaature (which is extremely useful). Howeverm I was wondering if it has a time jump feature. Like “jump” 15 seconds forward or backward.
This would have 2 main implementations for me:
When I mix rock metal songs into my electro sets, I cannot really grid them since they were recorded live in a studio and the tempo fluctuates a tad. So, say, starting to mix in s build in the background that is 15 seconds away from the last note/beat/etc. of the rock song and 15 seconds till the build ends would be most useful. I did it once without a “time jump” in a recorded mix, but it was quite difficult and nearly messed the whole transition up if I had not timed it correctly.
When mixing genres of edm with 2 distinct different BPMS (say…128 electro with 108 moombahton), having the be in sync with their cooldowns would be an efficient way of transitioning between the two.
well, the whole 15 seconds thing is super subjective, because lots of tracks have A LOT of different tempos. the only thing i can say is that you need to get more creative with your beatjump mappings, like maybe making a modifier that makes it hit the beat jump +8, 4 times instead of one.
I know what you mean by wanting to skip around. normally to do that, i just play with the +8 and the +1 beatjump until it lines up
If you dig around the articles from the “home section” Ean has an article on mixing in rock tunes.
He create manual loops that has an loop-out point that will be in sync with the track carrying the beat. Maybe you should check that out.
Now, I just tried to look at but I couldnt find it, its in there somewhere. Man, searching for articles absolutely sucks. I must be missing something. I use the search bar and it just displays the articles in chronological order starting with the latest?