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| quote: | Originally posted by Pinokio
I have a question
about dropping BPM speed, what techniques do you use?
Let'0s say I'm in 140 BPM, and I want to go to 130 BPM, do you gradually go to 130 BPM, or just in one transition can you make the change and still sound nice?
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The only time I ever have to do that is when I'm playing at our Student's Union so it's a wide range of dance music (house, electro, trance, drum n bass etc) and I want to drop back down to trance at the end of the night after the drum n bass, so it's a bit of a different situation because the crowd aren't so 'educated' in terms of fx and tricks (so you can get away with a lot more!)
But when I want to do that, say for example I've got a d'n'b tune playing at 180 BPM, I normally do something like (on CDJs) whack on master tempo and stick the pitch range in wide mode (+/-100%) with the tune playing on 0%, then slowly (over the course of 10 or 20 seconds) push the pitch down to about -50% (so it's playing at 90 BPM) where you start to get that grinding sound as master tempo tries to keep up, then just drop the next tune (say a trance tune at 135 BPM)...
It works of course because the transition the crowd hears is suddenly from 90 to 135 and they treat the bit before that as an effect or trick, so don't think of it as the whole set slowing down as such. But obviously that's what happens!
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