Forum: Wishes and new features

The point is to not spend all your time riding the pitch during a gig. Maybe if your transitions between songs lasted longer than 16 beats you would know that the songs go off beat after awhile.

I think that you "highly intelligent" people are missing my point. So far only one digital software has come close to matching the incremental adjustments that were capable on the 1200s and that software is Mixxx. However that software has a very ordinary search/library system. The point is to not spend all your time riding the pitch during a gig. Maybe if your transitions between songs lasted longer than 16 beats you would know that the songs go off beat after awhile. This has to do with the accuracy of the pitch adjustments. But I am sure you "highly intelligent mathmaticians" knew that already.

Ya, but you'll spend just as much time and effort trying to adjust the pitch slider to find the "sweet spot" as you would doing manual corrections anyways so take your pick. A DJ friend of mine takes 4 minutes of a 6 minute song to perfectly match the tempos whereas I prefer to spend 1 minute matching the approximate tempo and then make ever-so-slight manual adjustments on the fly. It's more hands on, less boring, and it leaves more time to look at boobies rather than being hunched over a turntable being all surgical-like. Besides most DJs who mix for more than 16 bars are inappropriately overlapping vocals etc. for the sake of showing off how good they are at beatmixing at the expense of creating a cluttered mix. Too many DJs forget that it's better to do a good transition smoothly from one song to the next and cut the mix off at the appropriate time rather than force them to listen some drawn out mix that goes on way too long. It's okay to do a long mix if the two tracks "jive" well together, but unfortunately that's usually not the case. It's usually a DJ mixing way too long just to show off. Just let them hear the next track already!! Some DJs need to learn that there's a fine line between mixing for the sake of mixing, and just playing the music for girls to shake their asses to. So many times I've heard house DJs spin and I say to myself "Okay, I get it, you can mix... NOW MOVE THE CROSSFADER ALL THE WAY OVER ALREADY SO I CAN HEAR THE NEXT FUCKING SONG!".

Now that I'm on the topic, another pet peeve of mine is hip hop DJs who scratch waaaay to much. I call them "Scratchy McScratchertons". It's the equivalent of a guitarist doing a guitar solo for the length an entire song. Drives me nuts. There's nothing worse than trying to enjoy a song and hearing an onslaught of "JIGGA JIGGA JIG J-J-J-J JIGGA JIG J-J-J-J-J JIGGA JIGGA JIGGA JIGGA JIGGA J-J-J-J-J-J-J JIG JIG JIG JIGGA JIGGA JIGGA J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J-J JIGGA JIGGA JIG JIGGA JIG JIGGA JIG JIG JIG JIGGA". Same thing as before "Okay, I get it, you can scratch... NOW LET ME HEAR THE SONG ALREADY!!".

Which brings me to my last pet peeve of the day. Hip Hop DJs who mix too quickly. With the advent of DVSs like Serato it enables the DJ to call up tracks at lightning fast speeds. I don't know how short the "DJ-in-question" assumes the listener's attention span is but please don't mix go through 10 songs in 45 seconds just to show how fast you can mix. I've seen it where the DJ throws on a big track, everyone is loving it and then the DJ mixes in another track 10 seconds later and everyone has this "What happened?" look on their face. "Okay, I get it, you can mix quickly... NOW LET ME HEAR THE SONG ALREADY!!".

Whatever happened to just playing music? In conclusion, don't be too technical when you play music. Do a super long mix only if the tracks mesh well together, scratch when appropriate, and quick mixes are are okay, but sometimes you just need to a let track play out so it can be enjoyed. Anyone out there feelin' me?

Btw, if your friend uses 4 minutes to beat-match a track, he might wanna consider another job..LOL

Would it be possible to get the bpm matching accurate to 0.01. The closest I can get is 0.03, so from 127.00 to 127.03. I would like to be able to go from 127.00 to 127.01.

Cheers,
Alex

Yes , you can do - Add 2 shorcuts for each deck - if you want to go down with BPM put this : deck 1 set_bpm 99.99% - and another : deck 2 set_bpm 99.99%
If you want to go up : deck 1 set_bpm 100.01% & deck 2 set_bpm 100.01% .
If you have a controller you don't need to put deck 1 or deck 2 -

So are you saying if you use the mapper in 6.0.2 you can make the pitch faders to adjust in 100th's of a BPM vs just 10th's using the mapper statements above?