Share your workflow for track conversion between platforms

[Johan]

@Marek_Reuter

But how do you go the other way around? If you set cue points on the fly while using a denon device, how do you sync these to your ‘main library’?

You’d have to export back into Rekordbox. Engine doesn’t support that. 3rd party software does (some better than others), but its a big management task to sync both ways.

The problem with syncing back to Rekordbox is that Pioneer has a rather closed database (encrypted, password protected), so you would have to use XML export/import features in Rekordbox if you obey Pioneers rules. By my knoweledge, Lexicon is the only 3rd party software that really hacked into Rekordbox. I believe ATGR software relies on XML import/export.

Personally, I’ve come to a point where 90% of my gigs are at a residency or private parties, both where I bring my own gear, so I plan to swap CDJ3000s for Denon SC6000s if I should encounter gigs with Pioneer players in the fixed rig (connections are the same anyway, so…). But if that would still be 90% of my gigs (like 10 years ago, when I was young and athletic), this would be a big problem.

[Marek_Reuter]

@Dj-alzy

Put everything onto an external drive. In one madter folder Make all playlists and cue points on that drive directly from the master folder. No need for syncing or exporting. Its more wysiwyg.

No more red tracks because you dont need to move tracks about once they are on drive. Updating drive and playlists is easy because its just adding to what is there already. And its laid out in a way you understand on both pc and primes.

I am not sure if I follow you. As I stated in my initial post, my workflow is to add grids, cue points, loops etc. on the fly - thus, I would add them (while playing) on the denon players. As I understand those cue points are not read by rekordbox.

So my question is, how do I get those into rekordbox, so that I can prepare a USB to play on CDJs in clubs. I am not sure how a master folder would help with this?