![]() If it looks like it may need a little tweaking, by using a few simple checks and adjustments right there on the deck screen and using the knobs and buttons of your S8, you adjust the beatgrid to get it perfect (there’s a knob that lets you check the beatgrid later in the track without affecting the audio – great for the track that’s actually playing…) On loading a track you haven’t played before in your set (and that you haven’t had time to check the beatgrid of ahead of time), you do some simple visual checks of its beatgrid.That means that each track at least has a beatgrid to start with, and most of the time this will be spot on You ensure Traktor is set to automatically “best guess” the beatgrid for your tunes when it analyses them for BPM etc.They’re so intuitive, you can sometimes use them on the track that’s actually playing, never mind the one you’re cueing up to play next! So here’s how it works: That’s where the Traktor Kontrol S8’s onboard screen and beatgridding controls come in. Not what you want mid-set… The new workflow And if you get to a gig and discover an issue with a beatgrid (this usually happens when you hit “sync” and it doesn’t work right), adjusting that beatgrid there and then is fiddly: you have to dial up a panel on screen in Traktor and revert to the trackpad and/or keyboard and do some pretty intricate stuff. There are even services out there that’ll do it for you, such is the resistance among some DJs to sitting there with their pile of 50 new tunes, painstakingly checking the beatgrid so all is OK for their looming gig. Indeed, the Traktor Kontrol S8, and to an extent the way Native Instruments envisages the whole Traktor ecosystem should operate, kind of demands you bite the bullet and start beatgridding your tunes. It allows the software to accurately calculate autoloops, rhythmic effects (think echo and delay), beatjumps, and overall to accurately tie each deck to the master tempo, meaning when you hit “sync”, things do truly sync up.Īnd while vinyl and CD DJs used to using just two music sources may question whether all of this is really necessary (after all, to manually beatmatch two sources soon becomes intuitive, why bother with all this beatgridding stuff?), actually, as soon as you introduce more music sources, and definitely as soon as you start adding a Remix Deck or two, this all becomes essential. What are beatgrids?Ī beatgrid is a uniform grid (think a “ruler”) laid along your track, with its first “marker” on the first beat of the first bar, and the other markers evenly laid out, one per beat, all the way through the track. Below is the background info you need to make the most of this lesson, and the video training itself is at the bottom of the article. In this, the third part of a five-part series, we’re looking at how you can adjust your beatgrid on the fly. In Get Started With The Traktor Kontrol S8, Pt 1, we looked at how the new flagship controller from Native Instruments works with your music files, and in Part 2 we looked at external inputs and wiring everything up. ![]() In this tutorial, you’ll learn how easy it is to quickly adjust your beatgrids using the Kontrol S8’s built-in screens and controls. ![]()
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