anthony2222
Hello,
Quick question for you guys. Say I'm mixing two tracks together, and one of the tracks is ever-so-slightly faster than the other, and I don't want to use the pitch control, but rather just dial the BPM down a single notch to cause the track that is too fast, and thus going off beat quicker, to slow down, and stay on beat for a longer duration without any assistance, how would I do that?
When I Right-click on the BPM icon near the top of Virtual DJ, a box opens up and it has the BPM and the number (in this case, 118.07). So I click on one of two arrows (the right one), and that then make sthe BPM 117.98, but yet nothing happens. It's -still- the same speed. Why is that? Do I click on that arrow and is there an "okay" button to confirm that BPM or what? I don't get it. If that's not the way to slow down a track using the smallest fraction possible, is there any other way?
Thanks.
Quick question for you guys. Say I'm mixing two tracks together, and one of the tracks is ever-so-slightly faster than the other, and I don't want to use the pitch control, but rather just dial the BPM down a single notch to cause the track that is too fast, and thus going off beat quicker, to slow down, and stay on beat for a longer duration without any assistance, how would I do that?
When I Right-click on the BPM icon near the top of Virtual DJ, a box opens up and it has the BPM and the number (in this case, 118.07). So I click on one of two arrows (the right one), and that then make sthe BPM 117.98, but yet nothing happens. It's -still- the same speed. Why is that? Do I click on that arrow and is there an "okay" button to confirm that BPM or what? I don't get it. If that's not the way to slow down a track using the smallest fraction possible, is there any other way?
Thanks.
geposted Mon 21 Nov 11 @ 11:02 pm
djdad
Have you tried the sync button ?
geposted Mon 21 Nov 11 @ 11:09 pm
anthony2222
Oh, yea', of course. Both tracks @ 118.07 (via "sync") and one track will go off beat rather quickly. Even after "Re-analyzing" both tracks, to insure that VDJ has an accurate count of the BPM for both tracks, still nothing. All I want to do is slow it down to, say, 118.06 or less, depending on what the best number is, obviously.
geposted Tue 22 Nov 11 @ 12:36 am
djdad
There is no way to adjust the bpm by editing the bpm value. You need to adjust the pitch of the song.
If the pitch slider is not giving you enough accuracy, try the lowest pitch range (6%) and assign 2 keyboard buttons as
pitch +0.001
and
pitch -0.001
you might need to adjust those values to achieve better results though. eg 0.0008 or 0.0005
Note that the above actions may affect differently (larger or smaller steps) to songs with various bpm values
If the pitch slider is not giving you enough accuracy, try the lowest pitch range (6%) and assign 2 keyboard buttons as
pitch +0.001
and
pitch -0.001
you might need to adjust those values to achieve better results though. eg 0.0008 or 0.0005
Note that the above actions may affect differently (larger or smaller steps) to songs with various bpm values
geposted Tue 22 Nov 11 @ 12:45 am
synthet1c
this is not perfect by far as there are different factors that effect how much moving the pitch fader will change the bpm, but this should be pretty close to working at 130bpm, The way I figured it out was trial and error, just by changing the pitch value until it only moved the bpm 0.01 at the pitch range specified. you can add different ranges if you choose, the bold part is one range and its modifier
map an endless encoder to
param_greater 50% ? pitch_range 6% ? pitch +0.0005 : pitch_range 12% ? pitch +0.00028 : pitch +0.0001 : pitch_range 6% ? pitch -0.0005 : pitch_range 12% ? pitch -0.00028 : pitch -0.0001
EDIT---------------------------------
actually I figured out that maths for a perfect change at 128bpm one day, it is here if you want to use it
http://fr.virtualdj.com/forums/151662/General_Discussion/how_to_scale_a_parameter_with_VDJ_script_.html
map an endless encoder to
param_greater 50% ? pitch_range 6% ? pitch +0.0005 : pitch_range 12% ? pitch +0.00028 : pitch +0.0001 : pitch_range 6% ? pitch -0.0005 : pitch_range 12% ? pitch -0.00028 : pitch -0.0001
EDIT---------------------------------
actually I figured out that maths for a perfect change at 128bpm one day, it is here if you want to use it
http://fr.virtualdj.com/forums/151662/General_Discussion/how_to_scale_a_parameter_with_VDJ_script_.html
geposted Tue 22 Nov 11 @ 12:57 am
anthony2222
djddad: Thanks. Didn't know about the 6% thing. It's actually staying on beat much more than before due to being able to pitch it down by a smaller fraction.
synthet1c: Don't quite understand mapping fully at the moment, but I'll definitely try to make it work. Thanks for your post and the link to the other thread.
synthet1c: Don't quite understand mapping fully at the moment, but I'll definitely try to make it work. Thanks for your post and the link to the other thread.
geposted Tue 22 Nov 11 @ 4:36 am