after reading through this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17774119 I decided to download a trial version have read abit through the help guide. Was just wondering if anyone could give me any tips or know of any tutorials for a complete noob
any tips on using virtual dj please?
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Ok electronic music is almost always in 4/4 time, basically if you're mixing house or trance you've got 4 consistent beats every bar. Just listen you can hear it quite easily. Next you'll notice that melodies or riffs or percussion or pretty much any change to the track happens every 16 or 32 beats. For example at the start of a track you might just hear a kick drum then after 16 or 32 beats (or maybe even 64) you'll hear a hi-hat introduced, then after another 16/32/64 beats you'll hear maybe a synth being introduced. Just listen, count the beats and you'll hear what I'm referring to.
This is important because you start the track you are mixing in on the first beat of a new bar of the track you are mixing out. This should show it a little better
I'm assuming here that you've already pressed the 'sync' button on the track you are mixing in so that the two track's BPM are the same. Ok so you've done as the picture describes and you should end up with something like this (blue peter style!)
From here if you press 'sync' again it should match the beats exactly however Virtual DJ is rubbish at this which means it's time for your ears to do some work. You'll need to drag the track you're mixing in left and right by tiny amounts until the beats sound perfectly in sync. Once you've done this and you're confident the beats are in sync you can start to move the cross fader over and voila your first mix.
Now all you have to do is the same thing thousands and thousands of times to get good!
This is important because you start the track you are mixing in on the first beat of a new bar of the track you are mixing out. This should show it a little better
I'm assuming here that you've already pressed the 'sync' button on the track you are mixing in so that the two track's BPM are the same. Ok so you've done as the picture describes and you should end up with something like this (blue peter style!)
From here if you press 'sync' again it should match the beats exactly however Virtual DJ is rubbish at this which means it's time for your ears to do some work. You'll need to drag the track you're mixing in left and right by tiny amounts until the beats sound perfectly in sync. Once you've done this and you're confident the beats are in sync you can start to move the cross fader over and voila your first mix.
Now all you have to do is the same thing thousands and thousands of times to get good!
maybe im just to used to ableton fubaring it all upIt never even gets it close for me really, maybe i need to get the latest version or something
EDIT\\ heh, just had another thought i may have some latency issues. Hmmm that'd make life, or well mixing easier if i could get that sorted
EDIT\\ heh, just had another thought i may have some latency issues. Hmmm that'd make life, or well mixing easier if i could get that sorted
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Oh i get the crackling too and that's without a midi controller, it's just a minor annoyance though. I think from using both VDJ and tracktor that tracktor is the better program, i just can't get it to work with vista and my sound card.