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  • September 28, 2012 at 8:22 pm #1012825
    Nicko D.
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    VDJ will do its best to analyse the song and establish the BPM based on the wave patterns. But you can also over-ride that as well and manually set the BPM’s by right-clicking on the song, go to the BPM menu and set it there. Hope this helps.

    September 29, 2012 at 9:13 am #1012844
    Tony Youll
    Member

    It does and I’ve tried fiddling around with it. But it still only sticks to one BPM in the song. There’s one part which is a slow build up which I think is around 128BPM (not 100% sure) Then it changes to a DnB style 90BPM. Its rather difficult to mix into this.

    September 29, 2012 at 5:32 pm #1012857
    madman
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    It often focuses most on the first part, that’s why these ‘DJ friendly’ tracks with a beat intro before the song actually starts can come in handy.
    If you want to determine the bpm of the part it doesn’t do correctly, maybe you could cut out the part you want to analyse using Audacity and then analyse that part in VDJ (not to be done live obviously). Not a perfect solution, but at least then you know what bpm the part is you wanted to know and hopefully you can mix it manually then.

    September 29, 2012 at 5:48 pm #1012859
    squarecell
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    If you have the option, just tap in your BPM at the part that it starts to slow down. A bit annoying because you’d have to do it every time you play that song, but I find this works for me.

    September 29, 2012 at 6:49 pm #1012861
    DeeJay SiBoogie
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    You’ll find that music with live musicians will have fluctuating BPMs an example would be the old Funk tunes as the drummer would be slightly off beat sometimes. Something the sync button won’t help you, you’ll need to ride the pitch fader and platter.
    Traktor allows for manual adjustment of the beat grid but I don’t think VDj does. I don’t worry to much about fluctuation during the track; I concentrate on what I want to use as the intro and outro. If the part the drops to 90BPM is your outro a track with a 180BPM should mix.

    October 1, 2012 at 3:58 pm #1012889
    Nicko D.
    Member

    Yeah, figures that right after that I had the same thing happen to me in a mix. I have this song that was a mashup between two songs with completely different beats. Whoever produced it was using an effect to jump between the two. I was certain I had removed it from my playlist for Sunday but obviously I was wrong. Since the song starts “DJ friendly” I was able to cue it up and play it. Then I realized I was in a big mess. The beat was all over the place, the next song of course would never fall in sync automagically since what VDJ was reporting was not what was actually coming out of my monitors, and I had to go low tech in a hurry: beatmatch by ear, ride the pitch back and forth, and stay calm. I failed on the third one.

    Because if I was calm and thinking clearly what I SHOULD have done is find the “good part” of the song, loop it, and beatmatch to it. Instead I panicked and was trying to beatmatch to a song that was going from a 136 BPM progressive beat to a 120 BPM dubstep every 8 seconds or so.

    Live and learn!

    October 15, 2012 at 6:27 pm #1013667
    Phil Morse
    Keymaster

    FYI MixVibes can actually handle songs with wildly varying BPM as its manual beatgridding system can let you set these.

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