3 TINY Changes To Make DJing In Rekordbox Stupidly Easy

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DJing with Rekordbox can be stressful. It's hard to find tracks, hard to read playlists and a mess to look at. I'm going to show you 3 tiny changes you make today to instantly improve your sets.
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[@ReallyChrisM]

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[@obertscloud]

what do you mean by choosing your dj banner ?

[@cripwalkisfun]

ooo using a blank track as a divider is a great idea

[@djason_music]

“Unless it’s tech… too soon” 😂

[@temibalogun3736]

I’m sooooooo glad I clicked this and it wasn’t a waste of time bc I have set coming up and you definitely just helps my anxiety by like 15% in five minutes. Amazing. The energy visual and separating is goatedddd

[@futballer4173]

Great Video as always !! keep the great work!

[@diagg]

AS always, top quality video with very good tips. Thanks Chris !

[@DJSOEGAARD]

Great stuff! - always stay organized! Thanks for this video!

[@SinTrinSide1]

great content man, beginner here. thankyou for all the tips, and funny side marks

[@Glockex]

Chris, buddy you're just not discovered yet, hope you get more eyes on ya. Solid content, high quality, witty. You're a whole package 😂

[@ReallyChrisM]

I appreciate that!

[@Jacques80120]

💯

[@krissmooreuk]

Love this content! Thanks for the tips!!!

[@camiloduartef]

hey mate, i really enjoy your channel, thanks for all the work ! will be great to have more Engine tips and tricks , thanks

[@Sertap777]

I was working in something like this. You helped me a lot! Thank you very much ❤

[@PippaCDJ]

Love it. Really helpful - thank you.

[@Sr_Pirata]

"...and Blue, da ba dee da ba di" 🤣EPIC

[@ReallyChrisM]

🔵

[@jhsymons]

It would be cool if Pioneer had a mechanism to add separators without the need for having a blank separator track. But awesome suggestion. Thanks!

[@reidhart3831]

Thanks M8, It all makes sense, You just saved my bacon, Got a show on today, Nice1 and Happy New Year

[@MotoManiacVlog]

Great video thanks for this!

[@seraphinamarini]

Brilliant! Thank you 💯🙏

[@Gareth.W]

Great video. Thanks for uploading it. I'm not a Rekordbox user but thinking maybe I should be.

[@Jacques80120]

Simple yet golden information right here🔥

[@andrewfitness8943]

Love the ideas!!

[@spcvrtx]

"Face Melter" .. have to copy this for one of my playlists. 😅

[@justno789]

This is so good! ❤

[@calmingwhitenoise8464]

Thank you this is quite useful for people who are struggling. People who say learn vinyl yada yada is just gate keeping. It’s 2024 and there’s technology now and we need to use it. I understand that we need to learn “in case” of tech malfunction but I believe are tech now is too advanced to malfunction. Maybe you are terribly unluckily if there’s tech problems. It might be like a percentage of a plane crashing (please not that the tech for planes are years years years ago) so yeah thank you for this and boohoo for the haters who aren’t using the tech currently. I’m sorry that you all had to learn the hard way but as a community we should be all helping each other out not hating or giving snarky comments about this dude.

[@adamcharlesvlogs]

You funny and helpful bro lol. Congrats I subbed

[@lazrface]

Mind blown; sub'd. TY sir!

[@djellisdee]

Good advice, always stay organized

[@DimaGrand]

very nice advices!!!!

[@LeftCat]

These are really great tips!

[@stphnmusicfr]

Nice tips, for me essentially the tips about color's tag !

[@AYMA420]

Thank you mate 🙌🏽

[@ognjenstojakovic7931]

5:12 dude i laughed for a straight minute after you caught me off guard with blue daba dee daba dae hahahahh, loved it had to comment

[@ReallyChrisM]

💙

[@TheMusicWario]

Just transitioned into Rekordbox, and thanks to your videos I wasn't as terrified as I could've been

[@ReallyChrisM]

Great to hear!

[@kertinaproduction5486]

If you don’t asking why did you transitioned to rekordbox?

[@TheMusicWario]

@@kertinaproduction5486 I just felt like taking a step towards the club standard software was the thing for me. I did look around first and compare softwares, but in the end, I just felt that going for the biggest and most used one would be the easiest for me.

[@Turbo_TechnoLogic]

Me too, coming from Traktor, well, some things really are messed up, and multiple bugs that are just unbelievable, why they don't fix them.

[@JJMusicDJ]

Bro how much work hours go into this? Cause the quality marketing storytelling is soo gooood. Maybe someday I will get to this level 🙏

[@ReallyChrisM]

Thanks! They take a long time. You'll get there!

[@thchadster]

Subbed , nice 1 fella

[@emphatic001]

Great tips.

[@VDJHITSOFFICIAL]

Thank you Sir 🤎🤎

[@zenluiz]

Cool tips. I see this is more for rekordbox in the laptop. How about tips for those who play in CDJs with USB sticks? I always find it difficult to find tracks in the CDJ, even though I had them organized in the computer.

[@ReallyChrisM]

That's a whole different kettle of fish. More CDJ stuff coming in future hopefully :)

[@mrbishi634]

Reducing the number of columns shown is a good idea to help PC users practice to use CDJs/XDJs since they only show a few columns. To me the track browser is the biggest difference between RB on the PC and the CDJ interface.

[@ReallyChrisM]

Great point. Definitely much more limited info available on a CDJ @@mrbishi634

[@AminAhmed2]

I really enjoyed the humor in this video... keep them coming! ("bead of sweat running down your butt crack" ...LOL)

[@jeffjefferson9885]

U tha Man!!

[@MACODJ]

Good video

[@DJPRASC]

Legend

[@xBLVCKLOTUSx]

Thx chris -chris

[@DmitryInNz]

Another banger of a video. I've been using two kind of separator "tracks", one a blank separator and one as a marker to signpost playlist during prep where I want to add more tracks. Coming to rb from vdj one of the saddest moments was losing the ability to dynamically colour tracks in playlists based on rules (similar to rules in intelligent playlists in rb). Still miss that vdj feature

[@ReallyChrisM]

Yeah that would be super handy - maybe one day we will get it 🫣

[@360kal]

what you mean by signpost playlist?

[@DmitryInNz]

@@360kal meaning marking where in the list I want to add more tracks

[@360kal]

@@DmitryInNz thanks! One more question. How do I duplicate this separator track in the same playlist? I’ve tried it on lexicon, rekordbox and serato. Can’t find an option to allow dupes in a playlist.

[@DmitryInNz]

@@360kal in RB I just get a popup asking whether to add duplicate or skip when adding a duplicate to the playlist.

[@DiRebel]

WoW 😯😎😁great 🙃

[@Nightbreak]

Genius.

[@souldefunk]

"Dabadee dabadye" 🤣

[@djtroymichael5372]

nice tips Im gonna watch that Marie Kondo flick on Netflix...

[@ReallyChrisM]

🧹

[@babyhuwe05]

Ive found that knowing music and the culture is the most important thing .... if u know the songs that keep people dancing thats all that matters no 1 really cares about all the complicated stuff but other djs .... most people are drunk and just wanna hear the hits that Simple stop over thinking it

[@sergiishust9858]

nice 👍

[@hanfmarkt]

Yoo chris, where can I listen your dj set? I love dnb and your tips are very helpful - I need to see what your performance is actually like

[@ReallyChrisM]

I did a guest mix recently here m.soundcloud.com/datatransmission/pachelle-presents-over-the-moon-episode-5?in=pachellemusic/sets/over-the-moon-radio

[@pan5809]

Do you think using a blank track as a divider ？ Create a playlist for each miniset what is the difference

[@ddetongre]

Red = Face melter 😂 Nice one Chris 🫶

[@W3SS3L078]

I really like your videos ! Can you make a video about double tracks , I have a MacBook and I want to delete some double files in rekordbox and also delete the songs on my Mac. And could you explain some ways to edit the MP3 and WAV files. When I do this in rekordbox, my file name will still have the original name. Is there a easy way to rename it for both or should I do this multiple times? Tanx for the help ! Your videos helps me a lot ! My library is cleaning up very fast and I love the edits !

[@ReallyChrisM]

I have something that may help with deleting files - check out this video :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5-8qX-kjNN5jdU

[@YarnovanBerkel]

Mmbop is a great emergency banger! :'D

[@lottsmore]

Great videos my dude. Question please- what does energy really mean 2 u? The word in this context seems a bit nebulous to me. I have a 120 bpm deep house(from ur vids not ur cup of tea) and people love it and sing along. It’s a banger but I would not say it has high energy. In your classification is that like 3-4 even though it the crowdloves it?

[@ReallyChrisM]

It's subjective - for me I use energy for how a track makes me feel personally. I used to have tags like 'singalong' which you could maybe try out in this sort of scenario

[@IRW1N]

i made myself three separator tracks in ableton - one with just bass, one with mids and one with high frequencies - so i have a color code in the separators. also i pushed the volume as high as possible - and the seperators look really like "blocks", because the waveform has no dynamics.

[@ReallyChrisM]

Very cool!

[@AlexRocks85]

Just don’t play those tracks 😂😂👍🏼

[@daveryan-kv4wx]

Glasses 👓 work really well if you are short sighted 😉 too!

[@williamarmstrong5522]

In my categories ALBUM is greyed out and I can't get rid of it! WHY!

[@davedave9924]

I’m here for the ongoing tech house meta

[@user-zf3or5vc7c]

This vid wow

[@RomaFoRhyme]

Hey, man. What camera do u use? 😎

[@ReallyChrisM]

Just my iPhone 📱

[@AngryVal]

Chris - I'm on Serato - am I doomed? Or can I apply these ideas to my 2nd rate DJ crates??

[@ReallyChrisM]

You should be able to apply most of these!

[@Fiyahcreation]

Quick question. How do you have so much space in your library? My deck are taking away all my space. Your decks are a little more up. Can u help. What settings should i use

[@ReallyChrisM]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIHCc3psh96ld6s&lc=Ugzjwk5_dexe0F4ntml4AaABAg should help!

[@NexuJin]

Using stars _and_ color to clarify the energy of a song is bit redundant. I think the rating should be kept for how good you estimate the track will work with the audience, beside the energy color. Also, doesn't the separator trick only work if your playlist is sorted "by track order" on the playlist? Wouldn't the visual layout with separators break once you sort the playlist by other columns, like title, bpm, key, rating, color, etc..?

[@ReallyChrisM]

The separator works best in scenarios where there is an implied structure to the playlist. For example a pre-planned guest mix or the mini set examples. If you are sorting by other fields such as title or bpm the implication is the playlist is unstructured and I wouldn't use the separator in those cases

[@NexuJin]

@@ReallyChrisM I think you forgot to tell people the playlist need to be sorted by Track Order for it to work than.

[@jono540]

Help! In Rekordbox if you load a random track, is there an easy way to then see what playlists this song appears in? This useful for example when you get a request song and you want to find similar stuff to play alongside it.

[@ReallyChrisM]

Check the latest video 👀

[@poolandmusic]

If I make these changes in Rekordbox will they translate over to the Cd-js of the clubs I play in?

[@ReallyChrisM]

Anything related to the construction of playlists can be synced to a USB as normal to play on CDJs

[@fucc773]

damn.

[@djvane1619]

DJ'ing should not be easy, its a skill that must be learned and mastered wich makes it special to be able to do! Teach yourself to dj on a cdj1000. Without all the extra shit that makes it so easy. No sync, bad waveform visuals and just learn your songs, learn how to beatmatch, and try to really master the skill of DJ'ing. After that, you dont even want to use rekordbox anymore.. and most inportant.. dont be afraid of making mistakes!! Thats part of the learning process and even sometimes creates the most happiest little accidents (sometimes) #keepitoldskool!

[@thomasjkellyiv196]

DJ sets are full of change unless its tech-h.... (too soon). lol. tech house is the country music of electronic

[@D5LMusic]

😂Face Melter🔊🫠🙌🏻 Great video dude, just earned another subscriber. Definitely need to give my library a good clean up and organise. Looking forward to watching more of your videos🤙🏻

[@hettovennik2887]

The 'like' button is on 808. whoops! 809 now sorry ;-)

[@lolleonlolable]

uhm maybe you know ? how can i make the wave / track thing at the top bigger ? if i use 4 decks its sooo tiny, even only 2 decks is tiny on a 4k screen. i dont want to put my desktop quality down just to make it bigger theres gotta be a way right ? also i didnt found an option for the cfx/filter knob to "kill" the track at 0% i always had that in virtual dj.

[@ReallyChrisM]

Afraid they are fixed size-it’s not ideal

[@lolleonlolable]

@@ReallyChrisM crazy... thats the most important part .. i dont understand why

[@ravegod_EMMANUEL_RAVEN]

How to download the blank separater ur file is not opening

[@ReallyChrisM]

I checked the link and still working for me

[@ravegod_EMMANUEL_RAVEN]

Know its working for me too bro tnk you

[@damiancardozo_]

Loco alguien que traduzca que no entiendo un choto :(

[@ranjitbhambhra5165]

Look mate can you DJ on Turntables you only need your ears, no sync no colour no technical issues lol

[@datapusher-]

Blank tracks? Just create multiple playlists.

[@katharsis99999]

Just get to know your tracks well and you will not need any of these „advices“. Also someone who doesn't know what to play next shouldn't be a DJ at all.

[@rugtop880]

Yawn..

[@paris9887]

You can all learn this stuff, I'm currently a beginner and it's pretty hard to exactly know what to play next

[@biddlybongdavinport5995]

Learn on vinyl, problem solved.

[@Maestro.Cannoli]

Vinyl is like BBQ with a Campfire, a nice Vibe, but unhandy, frustrating and much more work than needed. I like playing Vinyl in a private, comfortable Session without Pressure (at Home with Friends), but live its so much stress you could use for more Creative Things…

[@biddlybongdavinport5995]

@@Maestro.Cannoli It'll make you a better Dj on all formats was my point. If you can Dj in vinyl, it'll be a breeze on a controller.

[@Maestro.Cannoli]

@@biddlybongdavinport5995 true!!

[@stanleef]

@@biddlybongdavinport5995grow up. this video is specifically for djs who dont use vinyl.

[@rugtop880]

Except decks and records cost a little more .. in case you hadn’t noticed. Oh and are way heavier to lug around, in case you had forgotten. Top video, many thx.

[@OHM.R1210]

How about learning how to read a crowd and improvising on the fly in an organic way, like we all used to?