Analysis Speed Test - Engine DJ is the winner by a country mile

So as i was bored and unable to export music to my drive (i am music-less)

Decided to stroke my Engine Ego a bit and do a Verzuzz comparing the speed of track analysis between the heavyweights (and has beens)

Engine DJ vs Rekordbox vs Serato vs Traktor

Engine DJ came out tops

Kudos to all the hard working developers on the team.

Other tests

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A case of “More haste, less speed” ???

One has to wonder whether the lighning speed is down to less accurate analysis.

Fast is good, but how accurate are the BPM, key and grid placements compared to the other software?

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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!

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I don’t feel like Engine is less accurate than Rekordbox. Traktor is better than both of them, though.

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Legendary stuff @mufasa!

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!

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Yeah its a delicate balance

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.

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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.

My small test

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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So that’ll be 3rd then , overwise you’d have said the “in the top 2” lol

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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.

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*100 Tracks *

Genre - Afrobeats (tracks from Wizkid, Asake, Burna Boy etc)

Lowest BPM - 89

Highest BPM - 128

Analysis Range Selected - 68 - 135 (Engine Dj and Traktor)

Traktor vs Engine DJ

  • Traktor = 61% Grid Error

  • Engine DJ = 25% Grid Error

Windows PC, AMD Ryzen

No point testing DJay Pro lol - Its like having 99 lives in Contra

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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.