Beatgrid analysation improvement

Engine DJ Hardware Standalone Controllers
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I need an advice.

Tried the Denon Prime Go with a Rekordbox USB stick at a shop and had absolutely no issues with the beatgrids. I play only DnB and the first snare always was on the second beat, like it should.

Now I own a Prime Go and:

  1. I copied all my playlists from Rekordbox to an SD card, installed it on the Prime Go and the beatgrids were a disaster. Almost no track had its correct beatgrid.

  2. Formatted the SD card, installed Engine Desktop, copied my whole original music files to Engine. Analysed it in the highest BPM scale (think it’s 98 to 2xx), exported it to the SD card in Engine and installed it on the Prime Go. The beatgrids are better now but it’s still a real difference to the accurate beatgrids of my whole Recordbox collection.

I know how to manually change the beatgrid so that the snare is always on the second beat, which is important for DnB. I just want to get around of this workload! My DnB collection contains around 6000 files and I really don’t want to change even half of it manually.

Is there a better, more efficient and precise way to get exact beatgrid analysation in Engine OS automatically or in the Engine desktop version?

If not, is there an additional software, something like “Mixed in key” that could be helpful?

Thanks for every respond to my question!

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There’s some third party software called lexicon (or lexicon DJ) which will translate rekordbox grids to engine

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Lexicon is the best bet to hit all your files at once and then sync to engine.

I’ve been using it for a long time and it’s extremely solid.

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I analysed all my music with Mixed in key now and wrote the BPM and Key analyse into the main file. Imported this information into engine and everything is in a much better state now. Lexicon is a really expensive tool with its monthly costs plan. Are there other tools too?

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Just use it for a one off payment of ÂŁ13 to sort your library and then just keep on top of it manually after that, plus if you ever lose your music you can just re sync to lexicon and import the data again.

Very useful, it’s saved me a couple of times this way.

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Are you DJing just as an unpaid hobby? If not, then the lexicon subscription is really worth it. You can bypass engine altogether and write an engine compatible database which the prime decks read as if it was created by engine.