Mar 07, 2013  Are you having some syncing issues with Traktor DJ iPad App? What are we actually Syncing? It seems that the best functionality of the iPad Traktor DJ App for those wishing to use it with Traktor Pro 2 is: When you purchase new tracks on your iPad and you want to analyze them and add beatgrids and hot cues whilst on the move. Jan 31, 2014  Sync is good, but not always perfect: Annoyingly, Traktor still uses a fixed beatgrid. (Serato actually has beat warp markers) Provided a track has a well-defined BPM, which most electronic dance music does, it does pretty well at detecting it. However, a simple beatgrid can break down with tracks with live, unquantized percussion or where.

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One of Traktor's powerful commands is the Sync feature. A highly useful function, Traktor's Sync gives you the ability to lock the tempos of two or more tracks together. When utilized correctly, this powerful tool allows Traktor to take care of beat-matching, which gives you the space and freedom to make creative musical decisions during your set.

If you're going to be using the sync function, it's a good idea to have an understanding of the following sync-related features and functions in Traktor:

Master Clock

Traktor has a Master Clock whose tempo will determine the tempo of the tracks that are Synced. You can access the Master Clock by pressing the metronome in the upper left hand corner of the GUI.

Phase: Phase is a term used to describe the position of one sound wave relative to another sound wave.

In relation to DJing, two songs are 'in phase' when the drum hits in each songs' waveforms match each other, and are out of phase when the drum hits in each song are out of alignment with each other.

Traktor has a phase meter that displays the phase of each song. To display the phase meter, open the Traktor Preferences. In the Decks section, under Deck Heading, click 'Show Phase Meter' to display the phase meter.

Beat Grid: A beat-grid is the white lines that are placed overtop of Traktor's analyzed tracks that correspond to the song's drum hits, and tell Traktor the BPM of the track. Once set correctly, beat grids will enable to you to perfectly sync your tracks in time.

In Traktor 2, there are three different types of Sync available for you to use.

Here's a breakdown of the different versions, so you can choose which type of Sync is best for you.

Beat Sync

Beat Sync is Traktor's default Sync mode, and is activated when you press the Sync command in the GUI. It can also be selected in Traktor's Preferences, under Transport/Sync Mode/Beat Sync. When you press Beat Sync, the song's tempo and phase are matched to the tempo and phase of the Master Clock.

Beat Sync will not work properly without an accurately placed beat grid on your chosen track. You can use the auto grid function when you import songs into your collection, and if needed, adjust your beat grids to properly position them.

Tempo Sync

Tempo Sync is available in the MIDI commands, (in Traktor's Preferences/Transport/Sync Mode) not the GUI. When engaged, the tempo of the selected deck matches the tempo of the Master Clock. It is useful for quickly matching up the tempos of your tracks, but you will still need to carefully match the phases of the tracks using your ears if you use this mode.

Phase Sync

Phase Sync is available in the MIDI commands. A one time command, when engaged the tracks's phase will match the master source but the two are not locked together.

Beat Gridding

Before you begin to play sets using Beat Sync, you'll need to ensure that your beat grids are correctly placed on your tracks.

Here's what a beat grid that is properly placed looks like:

If your beat grid looks like this, you'll need to fine tune it:

Here's a reliable method you can use to adjust your beat grids.

First, you're going to want to have Traktor automatically set the Beat Grid when loading tracks. Since Traktor does a good job of correctly placing Beat Grids, this will ensure that the adjustments you make to the Beat Grids are minimal.

Open Traktor Preferences, and navigate to File Management. In the File Management section, check 'Analyze new tracks when loading into deck'. You can also choose to select 'Analyze New Imported Tracks'. In the BPM Detection section, make sure 'Set Beat-Grid when detecting BPM' is checked too.

Next, navigate to Output Routing. In Mixing Mode, Select 'External'. Make sure you set an Output for Deck A (eg. Your sound card)

In the Master Panel, turn on the Metronome in the Options section by selecting 'Tick'.

Next, click the headphones (cue) button in Deck A. This allows you to hear the tick of Traktor's metronome.

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Load up a new track into Deck A, and have a look at the white markers that are now displayed on the track after it has been analyzed; this is Traktor's auto Beat Grid. Zoom in on the waveform by pressing the 'plus' arrows on the right hand side of the waveform to have a closer look at how the Beat Grid is positioned on the track.

Press Play and Sync on Deck A; your song will sync to the Master Clock. Listen to how the track sounds when compared to the sound of the metronome; you need these two to perfectly match.

Click on the Grid button (located on the left hand side, underneath the track), and use the two top left or right arrows to adjust the Beat Grid position until it's perfectly positioned on the drum hits in the track.

Once your Beat Grid is adjusted, click the small lock button (located to the right of the arrows) to secure the grid in place.

You'll get quicker at adjusting your beat grids as you continue to practice this method. Try to set up a few beat grids at a time (eg. When you import new tracks each week) rather than trying to set them all up over your entire collection in a few days.

I believe that by using the Sync functions available in Traktor, you'll be able to enhance your sets by focusing on more creative elements, rather than spending all your time beat matching. Now that you've learned about what each Sync mode allows you to do, you'll be able to make a solid decision about which type of Sync is best for you.

In most cases, I recommend DJs use the Beat Sync function to ensure your tracks are synced correctly. If you're working with Beat Sync, I do recommend that you spend time preparing your sets by properly adjusting all your Beat Grids. A little effort spent on preparing your tracks will go a long way, and help you to rock the crowd during your sets!

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• Recently been trying out Traktor LE 2. Whenever I try to sync a DnB track at 85bpm to another DnB track at 175bpm, the 85bpm track shoots all the way up to 175 instead of 87.5bpm. This makes the track play rediculously fast as it plays in double time. I never had this problem with vdj which would pick up that it’s a double time track and change it to 87.5 bpm to sync it perfectly with the 175 track.

  Any idea why Traktor does this and is there a way to fix the problem besides manually changing the tempo?

  You can set the range of BPMs that Traktor will attempt to work within – its buried in the settings somewhere. Then you could restrict to a smaller range.

  Also there are /2 and *2 buttons that will halve or double the tempo – try those out for a quick fix.

  When you say manually changing it do you mean double clicking on the bpm and changing it to 170 in your case, that’s what I do just double it and it works, am I doing it wrong or something??

  Using the sync button in traktor will sync to the master deck which in your case has a track playing at 170bpm so a track at 85bpm will now be played at 170bpm…..that’s just traktor for you……as Rob Francis suggested use the /2 x2 option at bottom of decks…..if you have cue points visible you need to change it by clicking the grid button on left under the decks….once you hit the grid button on the right there are buttons marked /2 and x2….these buttons will half or double the bpm of the track playing in that deck……this is useful if traktors bpm detection is off. if traktor detects a track as 70bpm and you know it’s actually 140bpm you click the x2 button to change, tell traktor the track is 140bpm.

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