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On average it will take about 20 seconds for beats to noticably slide out from being aligned on the most accurate pitch setting with 0.1% increments. If you're finding it's a lot faster than that more often than not then you should probably look at how accurately you're setting the pitch and aligning the tracks.
With CD decks, as the pitch does literally move in steps I find it can be good practice to use the pitch reading to help you. Say for example got a track set at +3.1% and it needs to go faster and you put it to 3.3%. Then you think it needs to go slower, so you put it to 3.2%. Then it still sounds like it needs to go slower, but 3.1% was too slow. Don't bother trying and set it between 3.1% and 3.2% as the CD deck just simply won't change anything if the pitch reading it gives you doesn't change, so put it back to 3.1% for a bit but be aware that in the mix you'll have to push it up to 3.2% and back down to 3.1% at regular intervals.
Hope that makes some kind of sense... with more accurate CD decks (CDJ800, CDJ1000) this is less of an issue - on 0.05% steps I usually use the same method but with 0.02% steps it can be hard to make small enough movements to only move up/down one 'notch' so I tend to just treat it as analogue (i.e. just ignore the pitch reading and speed it up if it needs to go faster, slow it down if it needs to go slower).
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