Yeah, I’d be really interested to see a comparison of analysis accuracy. I’m definitely not saying that any of the others are more accurate, but I’d much rather have slow-and-reliable over fast-and-patchy!
We do have some internal data that I’m unfortunately not able to share, where we have compared accuracy of BPM detection, and placement of the first downbeat, and we stacked up very well when compared to other DJ software (somewhere in the top 3). So a good combo of speed plus accuracy is a win IMO!
I know that lots of people complain about the speed in which Engine exports data. So many of them don’t understand that the media you choose to read & write from AND how you connect them all have an effect on export speeds.
I’m currently exporting to a fast T7 Gen2 SSD and am getting nearly ~70% of entire spec for sustained writing speed. This isn’t bad given the non-sequential writes that need to occur.
I can only compare it to Rekordbox, and I find that key-analysis is generally slightly more accurate in Engine. BPM and downbeat detection seems to be quite similar in the two.
How diverse was the music library regarding styles of music? All EDM or everything from the 70s until now, including RnB, HipHop, pop, EDM, rock,…?
I am still thinking about Traktor, which doesn’t need to “bracket” its BPM detection range. Ie, it spots the difference between 80BPM and 160BPM. Engine and Rekordbox do not, you have to choose a range. For a diverse library that makes Traktor the winner.
VirtualDJ and DJay Pro don’t have a range either (although the latter can be set to have one).
For accurate beat grids across all genres, DJay Pro’s Fluid Beatgrid wins by a country mile, but I’m looking forward to the day when other software can do that.
Algoriddim also have a Quantize Track option in their Neural Mix software that can warp Ableton Live style. Unfortunately it’s Mac only and not part of DJay Pro.
Hey cool story @Pasha, the actual reason I said that is because I didn’t want to misquote the stats, I couldn’t remember which place we ranked ourselves out of the softwares that were tested.