Hey just a quick idea for the bpm grid … can we maybe have an option where we can manually type in the bpm on the media player . I think that it could be beneficial if it could be done on the fly . It would be great for accapelas. . And an adaptive beat grid would be dope AF . For example on the track “French kiss” by lil Luis … the bpm drops from 120 to like 80… then ramps back up . It would be amazing if the beat grid was flexible to deal with tracks like that . And old live music could definitely benefit from an adaptive beat grid .
There’s flexigrids on Engine DJ software, as pre-gig preparation.
Coping with varying BPMs on the fly, during a gig, for the 3 or 4 mins the song is playing would be difficult to achieve
Fair I didn’t know there was that flex grid on the engine software… still would awesome to do it on the player . I’ll check it out .
When you have 10 000 or 20 000 titles of funk/disco/rock music, good luck for “flexigriding”! Or may be you have seven lifes ? Today, a software like Vdj is able to perfectly analyse and follow drum parts that are played by human, and of course not quantized as drum machines. It’s up to Denon to inprove his software level
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I like playing old music that isn’t always Quantized . Even being able to manually enter a bpm on the player would be super helpful.
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@Dj.■■■ Can we import our tracks using Virtual DJ to benefit from it’s flex grid and then get the Denon to pick up what Virtual DJ has done, do you know?
No virtual dj library support.
There is serato library support and Engine DJ can use flexigrid created in Serato
There are third party solutions that can help with VDJ to Engine DJ but I’m not sure how they handle grids transfer between software
VDJ doesn’t automatically beat grid drifty tracks. I really wish it did.
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I don’t know, I didn’t try. I have the very last version of Vdj on one of my laptop, and it’s so powerful that you can sync two funky tracks for example, from the beginning til the end. And the “stems” are really amazing. If Denon could implement this in engine prime and engine os, they would have the best sofware on the market.
That’s certainly my understanding of it.
They could do it with http://mixmeister.com
InMusic own Mixmeister and that program can do it with ease. It is a shame there is no 64-bit version which kinda tells you the product isn’t getting the love it deserves. It’s pretty much abandoned.
Incorporate the technology into Engine DJ to enhance the gridding for live-drummed tracks.
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Well unless something has changed very recently which I’m not aware of (I’m a VIP user on their forum) the Atomix definition of “variable BPM” is a track which switches immediately from one steady BPM to another (slower or faster) steady BPM - not one which continuously drifts up & down.
To correctly grid a drifting track, the process is much the same as with EDJ. Manually add anchor points.