Traktor Pro 2 - Beatgrid the Easy Way

[@BRAVE_dj]

my question is: why all tutorial on beat grid are done on basic house beat that are most of the time really well analysed by traktor……do it on an accoustic reggae or funk song to show the real possibilities of that feature….and the real trouble it is to sync it to traktor.

[@CaptainTheo888]

some of the latest comments on here are hilarious :D .. I DJ'd professionally around the World for over 10 years and we were still using Vinyl for most of them...there was ONLY your ears... that's why most people sucked and why those of us who could beat match really stood out ;)... the tech is now available though and everyone should be using it for their beat matching so they can focus on the mixing.. and coming up with something original for everyone else to enjoy! .. the negative big yourself up comments I read in this thread don't say much for the people writing them... the rest of you, I'm glad this video helped you out :)

[@benswinnen6006]

+CaptainTheo888 I'm sure all the super great vinyl players also make all of their effects with an analog effect processor using the different cable connections. Or did you guys just turn on the preconfigured effectbuttons on your mixers? The thing is that all vinyl players are just angry that they put so much time in learning perfect beatmatching when now, it is has become a complete a waste of time...

[@83zoja]

+CaptainTheo888 alo bre, what if track is consistantly droping out of grid marker?? moving grid left and right doesnt help me in the begining track is ok but after a little while its droping out of the grid HELP

[@CaptainTheo888]

+Ben Swinnen ... emmm... perfect beatmatching was not something your had to spend time learning .. it either came naturally and without thought or it didn't... try not to see everything in a negative light... it won't get you anywhere... if you don't understand something then don't speak ;) .. I know I am not angry in any way shape or form.. I love what I can do with digital, it opens up different doors!

[@CaptainTheo888]

+Zoja NS Sounds like your BPM is off.. adjust incrementally as you go through the track and see how it pulls the grid closer or stretches it out

[@kelvinfletcher4692]

time is progress buddy, wouldn't be good if we stuck to the same old ways that was being done 30 years ago. Personally everytime i hear a vinyl dj go on about digital djs in a negative sense i can't help but find it unbelievably arrogant that they think everyone should do it there way

[@joetomic1]

I think I may speak for many when I say that I was expecting a tutorial on how to beatgrid a track that is a little more organic rhythmically and in need of some tweaking whereas this video simply explains how to verify that a track has been correctly analyzed in the first place. I really like the idea of replacing "Tick" with an actual percussion track. Thanks for your contribution to the art...

[@TheTrumanZoo]

ive noticed to set the grid on the first kick and then the first snare on drum beats like hiphop... sort of works...

[@WolfEntertainmentLLC]

Looking for this for months. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

[@devwof]

Wow this is so helpful, thanks A LOT! You've done great job with this tutorial video, it is very straightforward. I'd like to add that the spectrum view in Traktor can be really useful for doing this.

[@OUWATZAHLE08]

nice vidoe is that the extra settings under the decks right ?=

[@predatorfc]

Thank you, much appreciated. I didn't know where I was going wrong. I can match by ear, but couldn't sync. I had set Cues slightly out and not zoomed in far enough on the waveform.

[@PilzE.]

Superb explanation of beat grids! Did you drop Traktor, or are you still using?

[@FirstRequestProd]

Thanks for the great video I am new to traktor. and I kind of have a noob question I saw you were beat matching 126bpm's you say do this to all tracks using that one track as a guide Do you mean only tracks that are 126bpm correct. I ask because I saw another video a person said the same but said to use the higher bpm for all tracks even lower bpm's such as 98 or higher 132 I'm confused I saw the vid 5 times so I know I didn't misunderstand stand the gentleman am I missing something

[@BrooseWayniac]

Mr Captain!! Are you Happy with Ur Platinum Note Tool - because i tryed different methods to get my Tracks pitched and gained or leveled but - the only result was that my Sounds of my tracks went not as good as the Track before During PN (my sounds lost deepness and went a kind of Flat)

[@TheHBSOURCE]

Question - what happens if you track is old and drifts out of sync half way though? I guess back to manual pitching ??

[@CruisingWithJesus]

How come when I select sync it drops negative all the way down?

[@revorocks123]

Even if the beat grids are off and you're playing a song it's not the end of the world, usually they are only a little bit out and you can just turn off sync and beat match it by ear, helps to look at the phase meter while doing it too for a visual representation. But yeah much better to just get them gridded properly in the first place. Thanks for the vid, helped me sorting out my tracks which caught me out at times

[@kevinfairweather3661]

Great stuff, cheers. When you are mixing do you keep it on beat sync and not tempo sync ?

[@FirstRequestProd]

also any advise as to how to organize your tracks I have over 3000 and am the type of person who wants to keep all and just let my files grow to make sure I will never be without a track

[@chrisf5475]

Great video. For me personally, I DJ at such a variety of parties I could not possibly attempt to go though this for every track (of which I carry approx 40,000). I always make sure my tracks are analysed as a minimum because previous Traktor versions have crashed when analysing tracks (particularly ones with periods of silence in them!) so I am ultra paranoid about that. I find that although Traktor will sometimes place the markers slightly before / after the beat, the BPM calculation itself is usually spot on. So the grid sometimes needs to be shifted but I have never needed to 'stretch' it. (not for electronic or produced music anyway). If anybody started with Vinyl or even CDJs, you will be used to 'nudging' tracks into sync. That's all I do with Traktor. If you press the sync button it will match the BPM, but if you hear in the headphones that the cued track is a tiny bit ahead / behind, then you can just knock the sync button off and use the jog wheel to bring things into sync the old fashioned way. Note, after activating 'sync' on a deck the BPM will be adjusted. If you turn off sync, the BPM will revert back to what it was. To turn sync off and keep the 'matched' BPM you need to play the track first then turn sync off : )

[@joaofezasvital]

Problem is I don't have jog wheels (I use a midi controlee with only knobs and faders to control the decks and fxs and an external mixer to do the rest) I find it really hard to keep tracks in sync with buttons (I also have cdjs but they don't read usb and I'm tired of burning cds.. Guess I'll sell the whole mixer/midi controller/ audio2dj soundcard set up and just buy a pioneer ddj sb or something like that

[@lawlwho]

when i try to nudge the outside of my jogwheels to change the tempo of the track, the tempo changes when i turn the jogwheel for that instance but after i stop turning it, it jumps back to its original tempo. is there something in settings to change this so i can nudge the outside of the jogwheel and have the tempo change stay the same?

[@Th3DeeJayC]

What if the beatgrid is set correctly on the first half of the track, but not on the second half? What do I do in that case?

[@baddersyo3305]

Hi, Captain, I am trying to use Traktor 2, im having problems beatgridding the tracks. When I move the marker at the front of the track it moves it out at the back and vica versa!! Can you give me the advice I need please?

[@Gripshead]

sounds like a bunch of good Tips :) what I did find out that to Name the Beatmarker as #2 instead of #1 leaves me the Room to set #1 at a Trackintro where No Beat´s going on. #2 is regarding to that always there where the Action starts.

[@syeoak]

Great stuff - informing & saved me from ripping remaining hair out.

[@todzillarockz51]

If my load indicator is in the red, does that mean I need a faster cpu?

[@CaptainTheo888]

it's actually perfect to both the ear and on a scientific level... distortion doesn't help but the video's purpose is served

[@jennspaetau]

how can i do this for multiple tempo songs like one song starts at 120 ends at 128 stuff like that s there a way to do it manually? or some other way thanks!

[@DMITRYTechmusic]

Nice content, thanks bro

[@generaldefamation]

listening to the same drum loop for several hours or days really sucks. Apart from that minor detail, this works perfectly.

[@tarikyanis2443]

but im facing a problem now with a traktor s4, I don't know why when I paly 1 song and when put the headset I found the music with a different beat I mean one song only. could you pls help me ?

[@CaptainTheo888]

you can do that also but as I witnessed back in the vinyl days not everyone has a precise ear... so this is the easy way.. and it is very fast too so I do it myself most of the time... end result is the same for me

[@matthewranson3704]

where can i download this

[@analogdistortion]

Why not just use the metronome? Surely it's easier to hear a click more precisely than a bassdrum being mixed into a track with another bassdrum.

[@DJDaaruz]

Hmm, interesting method. Recently switched from Serato to TP....loving all the options.

[@tomsolismusic]

When he moves the arrows from left to right (2 min and 50 secs in) I can't do that on my software. Can someone help me out?

[@ntwlwb99]

The track isn't locked, is it?

[@tomsolismusic]

No, is it something in preferences I need to change?

[@CaptainTheo888]

I play with the Traktor S4, X1 and a mac so it uses the internal but you control it all from hardware

[@seanpearson1075]

does any one know if a hercules rmx2 console is compatible with tractor pro 2

[@djdomiy]

all midi controlers ( like hercules) are compatible but u will probably need to mapping in traktor. or download from web.

[@dermyod]

Why not just the metronome on each deck, under the padlock button that is the internal metronome for each deck

[@CaptainTheo888]

Then you can beat-match all your tracks from it using the same visual method on them followed by an audible check. The video also explains that the most important part is that you beatgrid all your tracks the same way so they they all match each other, therefore even if you somehow made a mistake setting up that first track, you will continue to make the same mistake on all of your tracks and it won't be a mistake because they will all be perfectly beat-matched to one another

[@giaberidze7673]

pioneer ddj rx.tsi please download Link

[@worldcomedyproducts]

i dont get it...

[@jessbarford7338]

Brilliant.

[@djsmiley1965]

Nice one mate.

[@deejayslim1]

I have an i3 and it works great... a friend of my put his on vista and it worked shitty so i told him to try his other comp which has w7 and it worked great with no issues

[@Skybydrone972]

Thanks for this video Just great.

[@niallcochrane3331]

Thanks Man, really helped

[@deejayslim1]

By the looks of your browser you should be re-tagging your tracks man.....i had mine redone and it made a huge difference.

[@CaptainTheo888]

@DjCBlaq - If you pay attention to the Video you will see that I say to chose a track that has a very simple kick with percussion, a track where the start of the beat is without question within the waveform that you can zoom in and see clearly, a track where visually you can see there is only ONE place for your beatgrid marker to be exactly at the start of the first beat.

[@MCJackLight]

Nice!

[@SSJfraz]

Painstakingly slow process if you're dealing with 50,000+ tracks. Honestly, if the beats are a bit off during a mix, manually put them into sync, that's what the platters on your controller are for! The more you practice, the quicker you'll get those beats into sync.

[@ultimatedouchegaming3327]

i have no 'Decks' on the list, only 'Deck Layouts'. And theres no 'Beat Grid' on there either

[@ultimatedouchegaming3327]

sorry i meant 'Grid Mode' not 'Beat Grid'. Sorry

[@DjCBlaq]

it kinda skips over the actual beat gridding. you are saying to use a track that is beat gridded, to compare the others to, but if you dont know how to beat grid, you cant have a track to compare others to?

[@CaptainTheo888]

that it does :) ... but once you get fast with this it is just a few seconds per track

[@KnutDeejay]

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[@rectify2003]

Thanks Great Video

[@mizzkronik1]

wait are people actually using the SYNC BUTTON on a regular basis? how is anyone getting away with that? or wanting to do so

[@vintsent7749]

+Clare Mc There are a lot of DJ's using sync. Most of the time when they use 4deck mixing combined with other programs like ableton or maschine. There is a lot going on so they use sync on a regular basis.

[@Gunt78]

For the same reason we chose cars over a horse and cart. Technology has continually revolutionised music. Computers democratised and fed into the punk ethic of anyone should be able to make music without having to have the privilege of being able to spend ridiculous amounts of hours mastering some very basic skills in order to express themselves. Computers allow anybody to have an entire orchestra at their finger tips. Why should Djing be any different, its the essence of dance music culture - DIY

[@SSJfraz]

It's merely for speed and convenience. Some DJ's like to do fast mixes where they'll mash up several tracks in the space of a minute. This wouldn't be possible without the sync feature.

[@gavsmith1980]

wait are people actually still criticising SYNC BUTTON users? how is anyone still unaware of all the options it opens up that were impossible before?

[@The00MOFO]

regaining lost quality in mp3's is almost impossible. Only play 320kps studio rips - sorted

[@jbx907]

what if the beat grid end up half beat off (sneer), can you set a cue and the grid auto lines up, i also have alot of music and i dont think traktor is not going to allow me to play un beat grid music, dont tell me your going to do beat grid editing in live performances hehehe, it suck i cannot set a cue when no grid lines are aligned on it, i have to go through the process of going to the grid and delete what it auto processed to allow me to set a cue and new grid the developer should allow the dj to set the cue first before the auto feature starts. make cues master in editing, not the other way around, just to set a cue that the software made a wrong grid mark, i have to go to the grid and adjust, not all dj come prepared with the music in that event, someone can give you a music that you can instantly mix and not go through that auto grid just to set a cue point. developer,. make cues master edit, the grid auto grid should follow the set cue point, dj knows better than you software, it can auto grid after the first que has been set or stored, make no sense when the auto grid make a half beat of grid and you have to manually set it lol

[@BrooseWayniac]

no!! got 2 check Latency in the Menu and feed your Cpu with more latency with pulling the marker to the right

[@tarikyanis2443]

good video bro

[@CaptainTheo888]

it gets close but it doesn't always get close in the same way with all tracks making some of them off... so if you manually do it you know you have perfection ... not my favorite thing to do by any means

[@papiblatino]

train your ears people...jus' listen.

[@Lennnkg]

thanks man very helpfull:)

[@Uttarayan]

I USE SYNC

[@siabumarundi4088]

Wow I don’t know what this guys doing but 99% of the time if you’re analyzing electronic music tractor gets it just fucking fine. There is no need to zoom in that close and waste your time. All you need to do at most, is reset the very start. Which for some reason it gets a little ahead or behind. Minus a very small percentage of tracks the only thing you’ll need to do is either around the BPM to an even number, as in for some reason it reads 123.02 when it should just be 123 BPM flat.... “It should be noted that sometimes it needs that extra .02 so use ears, kk“ or resetting the very first beat marker.

[@andrewlong7072]

why don't you use the metronome? this fact alone discredits you entirely...

[@telairon5422]

Not sure why traktor even exists,especially when they have problems reading BPM,i mean ive literally had nothing but problems with it since i started using it...makes me regret ever getting rid of my decks

[@SSJfraz]

All mixing software has problems with their beat algorithms. It's not really the fault of the software, but the way some tracks are made. Tracks with double kicks for example can through a beat grid way off. But if you've been DJing with decks, then getting the beats into sync manually will be a piece of cake for you.

[@djgeeter]

at the tattoo shop

[@dohboy76]

I can vouch for the Captain! we banged it out at more parties around the world on "VINYL" than any of you clowns posting shit could even play in your wet dreams. rant over. whats up theo!

[@CaptainTheo888]

dohboy76 what's up Scott .. nice rant :) ... some of the clowns on here are funny at least... which I guess is their purpose :D

[@Pathunter1]

Never ever ever trust traktors beatgrid just do it manually saved you a lot of time and effeort

[@CaptainTheo888]

oh good, another negative muppet on the planet trying to big themselves up by searching for something wrong in others.... you should try reading ... this video is called ... "Beatgrid the Easy Way" ... this is the easy way... personally I can mix vinyl flawlessly, cd's, use a laptop, whatever... but as I witnessed back in the strictly vinyl days not everyone has a precise ear... so this is the easy way.. and it is very fast too so I do it myself most of the time... end result is the same

[@TheBluehood23]

ok so i do set the grid for both songs...when i start them they start with perfect beat matching but then after a while the beats start getiing out of grid as the songs go on...the grid kinda changes with the beat so the beat is not grided perfect as in th ebeggining of both songs....what do i do wrong?