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Importance of Mixing in Key?

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  • April 3, 2012 at 9:49 pm #17901
    Michael Wagner
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    There are plenty of DJs that don’t pay attention to key at all and do just fine, but I like it myself. Electricbloom is right, I’ve definitely found it most useful in Techno where I tend to long mix. I also use it in dubstep and breaks, though.
    Some tips:
    1. Absorb the knowledge on the Mixed in Key forums, you don’t have to use the software to use the forum, and you’ll find that there are many more techniques in harmonic mixing besides just following the camelot system’s basic premise.
    2. Ignore the keys listed on Beatport. So many of them are wrong that you’ll just frustrate yourself if you try to use them.
    3. If you don’t want to shell out the money for Mixed in Key, there’s another program who’s name escapes me at the moment that’s free and decently accurate. Mixed in Key is a pretty great program though, accurate and easy as hell to use.

    April 4, 2012 at 8:25 pm #17960
    Xor
    Member

    MWagner, post: 17985, member: 1852 wrote:
    3. If you don’t want to shell out the money for Mixed in Key, there’s another program who’s name escapes me at the moment that’s free and decently accurate. Mixed in Key is a pretty great program though, accurate and easy as hell to use.

    Rapid Evolution 3.

    April 5, 2012 at 6:46 am #17981
    Rob Arran
    Member

    http://www.ibrahimshaath.co.uk/keyfinder/ Try this bit of free software 🙂 Gives you an idea before you splash out on MIK.

    April 5, 2012 at 4:48 pm #18022
    ADHDJ
    Participant

    I tag all my tracks with the key, and here are some things I’ve found about playing tracks that way.

    1) tracks with the same key or a key that’s an interval of a perfect fifth sound really great together!
    2) tracks with a key interval that aren’t matched can be great for changing the energy

    So is mixing in key needed? No, but will mixing in key make your sets better? Most likely they will!

    Anytime you stick within the rules of music theory your music will be more musical, but it’s not needed of course.

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