How to prepare music for use in Traktor

Question

I have just switched from serato. I was wondering if I could set up my music the same way? If I could how do I go about it? I wanna set up Sub folders .

 

Welcome to the forum!

You can create subfolders below Playlists / Mixes by right-clicking / using the context-menu.

 

Question

Would I be able to set my folders without having to assign them? I love playing on traktor but I need to learn how to set up my music folders. I wanna be able to get my songs quick while I'm mixing.

Justmaddness@hotmail.com

 

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "assigning folders".

Anyway, for a good performance you should add all of your tracks to Traktor's collection and analyze them BEFORE gigging.

 

Ok thanks for your help. Is there a video that could walk me through this process of setting up my music files in Traktor Scratch?

Justmaddness@hotmail.com

 

Is it automated yet as I have an external HD with 2000 mp3s and do not wnat to spend the next 8 months setting grids oe whatever? I appreaciate this particular thread is quite old but for newbies its very difficult with the shear amount and age of info in these forumns! As I am lazy, instead of trying to sort BPMs when a track starts to drift I find just sliding the plastic part of the discs on the VCI is just like sliding your finger along the platter of a 1210 to slow it down a little right?

 

Be careful with rounding!

Pixel,
For the most part, I think you're right about the BPM rounding. That said, I cannot tell you crazy some tracks have been driving me lately. Not sure if this is the electronic music industry in general or something to do with Beatport, but I've got a good share of tunes that have BPMs of X.125, X.025, X.875

Rounding these tracks will kill the sync, especially if you're mashing tunes together for extended periods of time. Definitely do the auto-analyze, add in your beatgrids and always always always check the beat-grid conformity 32-64 beats down from the initial beat-grid marker. Hope this helps!

-me.

 

Hi I really hope someone can help! beat gridding is driving me to an early grave! I ve bought the traktor tutorial dvd and read and listened to endless examples yet I am still unable to beat grid most of my tracks. They are mp.3 format, I follow the routine of snapping a beat marker then gradually go through the track adjusting the bpm to the tick noise in my headphones once complete however I find that the track is completely out when trying to mix? It seems as though where ever i adjust the grid the other end of the track becomes out of sync I.e drag grid forward the beginning of the track is out i drag the grid Backwards and the end of the track is out. I am truely a desperate man haha ive sat for hours trying everything and still I cannot get it can please someone explain in great detail exactly how to beat grid correctly thank you

 

what kind of tunes are you mixing?

 

im mixing a wide range of genres from house to progressive techno.Ive tried everything and followed all the tutorials. Could it be my audio file type? [ they are mainly mp3's] or could it be that im doing something wrong..... how do you set your beat grids do you set several through out one track or just lay one down on the offbeat at the start im so confused as to how you compensate for the drift in a track because if i alter the tempo at the beginning it makes the middle and end of the track out of sync and if i concentrate syncing it at the end of the track i pull the grid out of line at the beginning hope you can help as iam lost as what to doThank you for the response its much appreciated Ive even considered the possibilty of it being that my playlists and music folders are on an external hard drive could that effect it?

 

Any way to beatgrid from another computer? My xp installation for traktor on my laptop, has all devices disabled, even the onboard audio. I have another xp installation on the same disk, that i use to connect the laptop on my home network and manage files, so my collection is accesible over a network share. I also have local mirror of the files on my desktop (mp3s and collection). I can make the paths the same.

If i work on the collection on my desktop pc, with exactly the same files and paths, and sychronize them with my laptop, will i screw up everything?

 

importing music folders

hello,

i just got traktor scratch and I'm trying to import my music folders...it seems i can only import one track at a time and not the complete folder.

What am i doing wrong, how can i import my music folders?

thank you!

balto

 

is tyere a post like this for Traktor Pro?
I know there are a million different ways to do it but organizing in Itunes and trying to use the tracks in Traktor isn't very intuitive

wondering if I should aybe organize in traktor and then synch up in Itunes if thats possible.

 

this is all i do,

the song i have or down loaded i find in traktor, i anylise it, then I round the beat, if its like 127.756 bpm after i anylized it i just have it rounded, of its pro i just lock it, if its traktor 3 i just go under the heading of the round, local, exact or restore command things are in the header, then i go to the beginnign of the track and i but a beat grid, and have the loop button pressed set to 32, then i go to the end of that and but another beat grid cue point, until i have five in front and then when i get to the end of the sond i use fade out, or beatgride it out to 5 beat grid cue's out, most of the time though i just go to the front of the sond with a beat, and then set the loop to 32 and press that, i got to the end of the 32 count and put a cue point in there becouse beginnig of tracks can get tricky or even the middle of a track and then put one in front of it like load cue point or a in cue point,
get it? becouse i play progressive house and intros get in the way so i to to the middle and then go to the front and end to set the cue's, and then i play it but most of the time it's not always on cue with the other song playing , so you have to work a little, and mess with the sync button or the 2 arrows and play with it, that what makes it fun, just like turntables, you have to work a little, it's not perfect but almost.

 

Flac

"Then why not use wav files you might ask? Simple really, by using wav files I can't use Traktor and it's features to the fullest."

You can use FLAC, since it is lossless. It also supports metadata, so TRAKTOR can write the BPM and other information to the track.

To make iTunes work with FLAC and OGG, read the following tutorial:

http://www.macworld.com/article/51774/2006/07/ogg.html

 

This is what I do. I work on my collection using my desktop computer and sync everything over to my laptop. First I save my Traktor settings on my laptop into a .tsi file. Then i just sync the entire Traktor folder over. Works without any problems.

 

can you elaborate on how you sync?

do you use
- a manually copy the entire music root folder
- the export collection option inside traktor
- some other method

 

i analized about 12gb worth of mp3s in my playlist, is it normal after analylizing to take up a few gigs in my hd?

 

One hit button in autoplay ?

Hello I was wondering if there is a way to crossfade with one touch , instead of manually turning slider up ,while in autoplay . Dj is talking during crossfade and would make much easier to push one button . thx

 

Question traktor does rakto have the ability to automatically add the beat grids. Im use to using the beat grids as they are in Torq eventhough they are wrong Im ue to it and know how to work with it? So my question is does traktor do auto beat gridding