deathy

Though even so, I practice so much that I do still end up listening/mixing my tracks a few hundred times.

Though beefing up KeyFinder is still one of the things I intend to get around to eventually.

You are overthinking it.

The numbers and letters are different, but they mean exactly the same thing. So, 4A in Camelot is 9m in Open Key. They behave the same, though – you can go from 9m to 10m, 8m, or 8d, and so on and so forth, just the same. In Camelot, A is minor, B is major. In Open Key, m is minor and d is major.

However, the biggest thing to be aware of is that Traktor’s built-in key detection is BAD with a capital BAD. Check out DJTT’s great article comparing what’s available – Key Detection Software Comparison: 2014 Edition

Traktor will import the key detection from MiK. Internally, it will still display it using Open Key, but the important thing is that it will use MiK’s detected key rather than trying to use it’s own *bleep*y routine.

When you are importing tracks into Traktor, you want to analyze them – by default, it will do a full analysis and step all over MiK’s detected key. When you get that Analysis pop-up, check “Custom” (or whatever, don’t have Traktor in front of me, so the exact word may be slightly different), then make sure that you check the options you want (I use gain and BPM/first beat) but leave key unchecked.

Hope this helps!

Terry – While people DO it, Mixcloud’s policies actually forbid individual tracks, and people won’t be able to download the edits to use themselves.

Antoine – Soundcloud is probably the go-to place for that, although it is important to always bear in mind that your edits and remixes are copyright violations, so there is a chance that your tracks will get a takedown order if your edit is of a big track. I post my remixes on Soundcloud, and haven’t had any takedowns yet, but my remixes don’t resemble the original track very much, so that probably contributes to it. A straight up edit tends to be a lot closer to the original track, so is more likely to get a takedown order.

heh. Yeah, although I would not be surprised to see more DJ software start to offer the option of leveraging the GPU, since it would do amazing things for making their software run on lower spec machines.

Vashti – It sounds like one of the internal fans got damaged to me.

Chuck – Yeah, the video card is certainly overkill for most DJ software. I’m thinking about leveraging the GPU for doing the heavy lifting in my software, since it’s there and MUCH better suited to doing the math than a general purpose CPU.

Howdy, Simonne, welcome!

CrossDJ for iPad scored VERY well in the Key Detection Software Comparison: 2014 Edition