Traktor Beatgrids

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Traktor Beatgrids

I search and read the forum for information as I need it. Today, I registered. In the past, I read “Perfecting Traktor Beatgrids: Ean’s Method”. But, I now have a question: Sometimes I use sync but sometimes I use vinyl timecode. When using timecode, is beatgridding neccessary?

I’ve been spinning vinyl a long time and I’m used to working the pitch control for 2 minute blends.

Thanks

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Beat gridding is still important if you use Traktors onboard effects. Many of the effects, especially the beatmasher, slicer, gater, and auto sweeping filters, use the master tempo to determine the speed or rate of the effect.
Even if you don’t use sync, it’s a good idea to beatgrid your music, and have the master tempo set to “auto” so that it always matches the speed of the track that is playing live.
If the master tempo doesn’t match the speed of the track that is playing, your effects will sound out of time with the music that is playing!

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Traktor pretty much always gets the tempo correct for music with constant BPM. The only real problem is that the grid often does not line up with the transients, which affects Sync more than anything else.

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The loops n beat jumps are reliant on grids as well as some of the FX

I tend not to grid as I play a lot of rips of old tunes via timecode which just can’t be gridded properly so I have a button mapped to tap in the beat as and when I need it for the loops, jumps n FX.

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Loops + cues can be applied from any point in the track, they don’t depend on the beatgrid. And loops only need the tempo to be correct.