WHO: As a (drum and bass) DJ,
WHAT: I want to set the exact bar from the beginning of a track for the OUT-MIX POINT (to define where a transition to the next track starts),
WHY: so I can generate sets similar to how I perform during live sets.
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Let me provide you with a little bit of background for my use case. My standard DJ routine when creating a new set is this:
1. Get new tracks.
2. Analyze all tracks in Mix in Key to automatically write the track's key to the comment field of the analyzed track, e.g. '4A'.
3. Import tracks to Rekordbox.
4. Fix the grid in Rekordbox for each track where the grid is wrong.
5. Create memory points for each track (beginning of the track, and each 16 until bass drops)
6. Adjust comments in Rekordbox so it starts with 0 if the key consists of just one number (4A to 04A) so tracks are correctly ordered by key if needed.
7. Edit set in Rekordbox.
8. Export it to USB flash drives.
9. Start mixing on CDJs to validate transitions and find good new transitions.
10. Go to step 7 until set good.
As you can imagine the process is time-consuming, fun, but a little bit painful. And this is where the DJ.Studio can help.
I want the DJ.Studio to generate a set from my tracks (prepared in Rekordbox) in a similar style to my style of mixing (modern drum and bass fast mixing) so I can quickly find good transitions without exporting the tracks to USB drives and mixing the tracks live on my CDJs.
Drum and bass tracks have a similar structure. Most of the time a track has 32 bars or 48 bars intro, then the bass drops. I want to switch bass to the next track no later than 32 to 64 bars since bass started in the first track.
This means that my bass switch happens somewhere in the range of bar 65 to bar 113 from the beginning of the first track. Mostly, it is bar 65. It takes 16 bars in my transition to reach the point where the bass is switched, so the transition should start at bar 49.
Therefore I would like to define where the transition to the next track starts based on the number of bars from the beginning of the first track, not from the end.
Counting the start of a transition from the end of a track does not make any sense for my use case. I am not trying to generate a continuous playlist. I am trying to simulate a standard DJ set, which means knowing where in the track you are from the beginning of the track or from the place where the bass started.
Thanks for reading this if you reached this point :).