Does EP support non-4/4 time signatures like 3/4 for waltzes (e.g. “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” by Simply Red) or 5/4 for tracks like Dave Brubeck’s “Take five”? Searched for it, but it seems that this is completely unsupported - was this confirmed somewhere?
Also, many tracks that intersperse other counts like 2/4 in a 4/4-track give me a lot of headaches during beatgridding as very often the 1-count shifts and doesn’t fit any more, e.g. in “Hey Ya” from “OutKast”. Does anyone have an idea how to cover this for setting up a proper beat grid?
I don’t think any DJ software supports non 4/4 rhythms, so nothing unusual there. DAW software, yes - for making music, but not for us lot who only play it.
Ditto for key and tempo. DJ software tends to only allow for one key and one BPM (although the latter has evolved slightly). It’s a shame, but it is what it is.
I think you can even use cheap alternative version of most daws like DJstudio or similar. Beat Grid editing is useful on the fly to adjust beatmatching and own loops but basically time signature is defined in EDM as drums tempo with entire Bpm. Most sounds has unique designs so time signature of instrument stem can be different. Instead using stems support to change time signature of stems parts with cue points, loops etc… you can prepare your playlist collection in any daw to use samplers and loopers effects and control the flow of the tracks with automations of it. Record that so you should be ready to use these edited version of tracks for your gig as 4/4 signature
