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| Doctorwho |
Hi guys,
I need a lil help. Ive been called out of town next week to do a rather bizaar mix.
Technically I spin mostly just electronic genres, and Im usually pretty prepared to do a show rather soon, but one of my friends wants me to cater a birthday party in OK in a week or two, and its going to be a mix between dance, pop, rock, and maybe a little of rap/hip hop.
Being that I dont have enough wax or cds, Im having to get some of the tracks online.
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SO.......I was wondering if there is a program out there that will read your mp3's you have and auto-match the BPM to what you want to keep it at, before actually mixing the tracks together?
Say I want to play 12 tracks at a bpm level of 135.00 but the tracks consist of 120 bpm up to 175 bpm but I want a program to auto synquence the bpm to 135.00
Is there a program that does this? Reason why Im asking is it will save me a lot of time, rather than sorting out all the rap and hip hop in one column and all the pop and dance in another.
This way Ill have the BPM on all the tracks the same and it will be easier to mix blend the tracks together.
I know its kinda cheating the mixer, but being that I only have a week to prepare for this show and have nothing to play with, its a last minute request.
**HELP!!* |
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| PlayerLac |
| it will sound like crap if you mix rap/hip hop with trance regardless of how you match the BPM's. just simply fade in/fade out. |
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| Freqnasty |
| why do you need bpm auto matching applications? can't do it on the fly? |
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| discobiscuit |
virtual dj and ableton basically beatmatch for you... umm... i am in the same situation, but i use serato. when i'm switching genre's, say from house to hip hop, if im in house and want to switch to hiphop, i just find a hip hop song w/ a bpm around 130 and mix into it. then i mix down through bpm's by 3-5bpm imncriments to 80, jump to 160 and work down to 140 (key lock is important w/ hip hop so hopefully you have an application w/ it). then when i get to 140, i can mix in some trance and then work down to house and then to hip hop again. i dont know if you understand what i'm saying, but that's what i do and i'm in the sam situation as you...
house 135-125 bpm give or take
trance 130-140 bpm give or take
hip hop 80 to 160 bpm (some may disagree, but whatever...)
or you could mix house, trance, and baltimore club music (rap and/or rap remixes with fast, dancy beat). and that would restrict your bpm range from 125ish to 140ish bpm wich would be a lot easier for ya.
i have a list of hip hop songs (1 for each bpm from 80 to 160) which would be a great starting list for ya. then you can add your own favorites to the list and have a tracklist w/ at least 1 song for each bpm. its very helpful for a hip-hopper who is just starting out... |
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| Doctorwho |
| Thank Disco for your reply and helpful tips. |
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| DjWoody |
Just like Disco said. Work your BPM's up and down. I do it all the time and it works great.
If I start at 100 BPM (I usually don't like anything below 100), I keep going up the BPM's every song. By the time I get to 120-125, you can already mix house. To NOT make the transition very obvious, I would mix something along the lines to this...
1.- Federation - Stunna Glasses At Night (115)
2.- Pitbull - Ay Chico (118)
3.- Justin Timberlake - Hate Me Sexy (120)
4.- Black Eye Peas - My Humps (122)
5.- John Farrugio - Say It Sweet (125)
6.- Bob Sinclair - Rock This Party (128)
7.- Justin Timberlake vs Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Sexy Hands Up (128)
8.- Dave Lambert, Electrokid - Funky Town 2007
9.- Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Dirty South Remix) |
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| Doctorwho |
Well, what I want to do is like take a songs BPM and set it to the BPM I want to work with, SAVE it to THAT bpm so I can mix it in later for better mixing control.
For exampe, I want to mix 12 tracks at 135.00 even, without hardly using pitch control.
I know there was a kick ass program out there I used way in the past that did just that. It would upload your mp3 file, read the default BPM to the song, and allow you to change the BPM to a highier or lower BPM and then it would allow you to SAVE it to THAT BPM, so that when you loaded it up later in a player to mix, you hardly would have to use the pitch controller, because every track would be set already for you to mix in.
Virtual DJ is more of a program that you use DURING the mixing that auto-beats the tracks at the time of play.
What Im needing is a program that entirely works strickly on settin the BPM's to each track and saving it before show time, so that the pitch control will not be needed much and is an easier method to blend in the songs I want to play.
Especially when going from dance to hip hop, to country, to rock, and so forth. |
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| nefardec |
do what Greg Gillis (Girl Talk) does...
take a bunch of popular songs and mash them in cool edit for like a 2 hour length mix
then go on stage and press play and then get drunk, take your clothes off, make out with audience members, and wear pumpkins on your head |
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| DJChrisB |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjWoody
Just like Disco said. Work your BPM's up and down. I do it all the time and it works great.
If I start at 100 BPM (I usually don't like anything below 100), I keep going up the BPM's every song. By the time I get to 120-125, you can already mix house. To NOT make the transition very obvious, I would mix something along the lines to this...
1.- Federation - Stunna Glasses At Night (115)
2.- Pitbull - Ay Chico (118)
3.- Justin Timberlake - Hate Me Sexy (120)
4.- Black Eye Peas - My Humps (122)
5.- John Farrugio - Say It Sweet (125)
6.- Bob Sinclair - Rock This Party (128)
7.- Justin Timberlake vs Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Sexy Hands Up (128)
8.- Dave Lambert, Electrokid - Funky Town 2007
9.- Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Dirty South Remix) |
Skillz! Right on man. |
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| discobiscuit |
| i never met anyone who "spins wax" that was so concerned about a program beatmatching for them... i mean you dont even want to adjust the pitch of your tracks at all?!! weird... |
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