Which is more accurate Traktor or Serato Beat Grid?

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Which is more accurate Traktor or Serato Beat Grid?

Hi,

I’ve recently purchased Traktor Pro and have found that when I’m zoomed completely into the waveform, I’m unable to place the marker precisely at the beggining of the beat, it seems to jump along about 1mm at a time!

Does anybody know if Serato is any more accurate? I don’t know why there isn’t a cycle feature rather than jumping, because 1 out of 5 times your beat is not accurate enough. I’ve come from DJing using CDJs and I find the impresicion really vexing… Would appreciate any advise before I purchase Serato..!

Regards
Kevin Ardala

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Use the nudge functions to shift the marker exactly where you want it. Also, make sure the BPM is correct.

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Traktor Nidge

Oh, I’ll give that another go then… I was under the impression that nudge just did the same thing, but in real time… I guess I’ll have to practice more then, lol.

Ok, thanks for the reply pal.

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Quantize and Snap should be off too…

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Quantise and Snap off

Cheers for that… Makes sense… I’ll give that a go as well… Much appreciated, thanks!

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traktor is what lots of house and techno dj’s use. many of whom rely on sync to beatmatch allowing them to keep their hands free to do other stuff!

I personally cannot think of any techno Dj who uses sertato, but im sure there are examples (not many though)

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Serato vs Traktor - beat grid

Come to think of it neither can I, it does seem to be turntablists who are using Serato! TBH Ive been using Stems over the last few days and it’s really interesting… Something I know Serato is having nothing to do with… So, I think it’s going to have to be Traktor, I found some pretty good vids explaining what you guys have said, so all is well.

I think you need an appropriate controller… I was using the F1 with the mouse for Transport which isn’t that great… But, if I purchase the X1 (and it’s nudge touch strip) I think things will be much better.

Ok, cheers for the advise!

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Dave Clarke.

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There is a good gridding midi-map for the midifighter - you should be able to convert it to work on the F1 fairly easily - it will be a good way to learn mapping as well!

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I also have a beatgrid custom UI view for Traktor that I use.

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There are a few house and techno DJ’s that use Serato. Ben UFO does, Midland used to. I am sure there are others, I think allot of the UK techno dj’s do.

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Yeah, Serato is pretty good on that aspect, the only real edge Traktor has in favour of electronic stuff these days are the Stem/Remix Decks vs Serato’s Sampler but that’s a whole new discussion :slight_smile:

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Serato has a track browser that doesnt think its 1995. So they have that going for them.

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I’ve been usuing serato constantly for 5 years now being a trance/house/tech dj at first I really enjoyed now there’s either issues with my hardware or somewhere that is causing poor audio quality when monitoring. This makes mixing extremely frustrating… Something they did in one of the updates changed the way the physical controls of the controller work and since then it’s been aggravating. Thus I’m starting to try to love traktor again

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But that said serato allows elastic beat grids and the iTunes intgration is superior I’ve found

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like fist pump and dance around :laughing:

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I still use traktor mainly, but having used both software, i have to admit that Serato has better gridding. Serato’s gridding is similar to Ableton’s warp engine is way more flexible and easier to grid tracks. imo.

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Delete beat marker, zoom in and manually place beat marker, use metronome with the monitors set to your headphones and your ears to shift in small amounts. Problem solved.