How do you live without stacked waveforms…

the only other option would be hitting the ‘sync’ button every 2 bars or so. Not ideal, but if you are forced to use tractor and can’t view the waveforms in the format you need…..

I’d say trust your ears and go manual, or find a means to beatmap the music.

When I see stuff about 70s DJing, it was short fades that melded in well. Those guys like Francis Grasso just had a knack to know when to drop the next tune.

Klaus Mogensen, post: 41732, member: 4499 wrote: Thank you for your replies

I have both Traktor, Serato and Virtual DJ on my gig laptops, so I guess I’ll continue to only use Traktor for sets where I know I’m going to play modern music only (like pre-defined sets), and use one of the other two for “anything can happen gigs” like corporate parties, birthdays and weddings with lots of requests (I actually ask for people to do request, when playing these kind of gigs)

I was just wondering how Traktor-only DJ’s coped with mixing untight music, when I couldn’t figure out how to do it

Best regards
Klaus Mogensen

Well obviously you can use the little sync mark which tells you if either of your tracks is running out and you can nudge it back or as D-Jam said use your ears and do it the old fashioned way.

Make no mistake though, both Serato and MixVibes may have more flexible beatgridding, which means they’ll get it right more often, but you will ALWAYS have to check the beatgrid it comes up with. So it’s not like using other software suddenly cures the drifting beat illness for all your tracks.

Greetinx,
C.

I use Serato… I love stacked waveforms and I do not care what only by marketing terms “most” use.
If you check the actual scene in Europe for example (which is funny as NI is a german company) you see more Serato and VDJ DJs in the clubs. Only in the US it looks like Traktor is dominating (at least it was about 4 years ago, last time I was in the US I think).

Yes it is kind of weird.
But it may be simple things like hype on internet forums and as I read the german forums regularly I see a lot less hate against VDJ and some quite famous germans use it.
Also Reloop is present in all the big stores and their flagship controllers (TM4 and TM2) are Serato Controllers. While the Jockey Series is very good and Traktor, they seem to create less buzz than the TMs…
Then there are a lot of german hip hop DJs who either still use Serato Scratch or moved to controllers and now use Serato. As while hip hop is on the decline in the US the german hip hop scene looks more alive…

And last but not least: There is not that much controllerism hype in germany. While a lot of DJs moved or move to controllers here, they use them more in a traditional DJ way.
Actually the same is for the US, but due to controllerism hype I see a lot of DJs there with a huge controllerism setup for live performance and then they hit a button every 2min to switch songs in Ableton… real controllerists seem to be quite rare.

Indeed.
We all love DJ Freshfluke 😉

However she uses Traktor actually 😛