Another Dope video as usual, thanks for the knowledge.1👊🏾Yo P, I'm having trouble creating smart crates. Do you have a tutorial on how to create smart crates?
*WARNING! This only works if you're using this specific type of "DJ intro" tracks & more importantly, it only works if Serato's AI has correctly guessed the BPM when it initially analyzed the track... Biggest issue I've found with Serato is that it will only guess the grid correctly if you're using electronic music & even then, it only gets it right maybe 60% of the time! When you factor in non-DJ edits or even DJ edits that feature real instruments, Serato only gets the grid right maybe 20% of the time... Meaning 80% of your tracks won't be set correctly on the grid when you upload them!!! Further meaning, if you're just clicking through each track setting all your cues without actually listening to your tracks, you're gonna be in for a real rude awakening when you go to play those tracks at a gig for the 1st time & realize Serato set the grid on the up-beat instead of the down beat... The resulting sound will be excruciating on the ears & you'll look like a total doofus! Traktor's AI is 1000X more accurate, so I'd recommend going that route for any beginners & for those of you who've already purchased Serato, I'd advise highly against setting cue pts this way! Unless you're into wasting your time doing things the wrong way &/or wasting copious amounts of time by doing things twice....
Great Video. is there a solution for a more accurate beatgridding tool I am finding that approx 20% of tracks in Serato are not being beat gridded correctly after analysing (including electronic tracks House/Techno/Breakbeat etc) I know how to manually adjust beatgrids the standard way but I am having to play right through every track in my library (because I don't know which are right) check the beat grid as its playing and if necessary then going into adjust and listening to the whole song checking each marker (as some tracks will be on point and then after the break they will be off (I am not talking about transition tracks as I don't have any regular house/techno/breakbeat tracks)) This is extremely time consuming, boring and annoying especially as its something Serato should be doing when it is analysing the tracks. I am finding this is more common (but not exclusive to) on tracks that don't start on a beat ie intro will start with a synth/someone talking/singing etc. I am willing to pay if there is a separate program that does this more acuratly and imports this beat grid into Serato DJ pro
Great stuff my guy, I have a question. I use a PC to play on Serato DJ. How ever my music loading time seem slow and it lags most time and the freezes before it loads the tracks. How can I Potentially resolve this issue??
*WARNING! This only works if you're using this specific type of "DJ intro" tracks & more importantly, it only works if Serato's AI has correctly guessed the BPM when it initially analyzed the track... Biggest issue I've found with Serato is that it will only guess the grid correctly if you're using electronic music & even then, it only gets it right maybe 60% of the time! When you factor in non-DJ edits or even DJ edits that feature real instruments, Serato only gets the grid right maybe 20% of the time... Meaning 80% of your tracks won't be set correctly on the grid when you upload them!!! Further meaning, if you're just clicking through each track setting all your cues without actually listening to your tracks, you're gonna be in for a real rude awakening when you go to play those tracks at a gig for the 1st time & realize Serato set the grid on the up-beat instead of the down beat... The resulting sound will be excruciating on the ears & you'll look like a total doofus! Traktor's AI is 1000X more accurate, so I'd recommend going that route for any beginners & for those of you who've already purchased Serato, I'd advise highly against setting cue pts this way! Unless you're into wasting your time doing things the wrong way &/or wasting copious amounts of time by doing things twice....Unfortunately, you're gonna hafta actually listen to your music (or at least click through it), when uploading new tracks for the 1st time, strictly to ensure the grid is aligned correctly.... There's some really good tutorials out there for adjusting the grid of your tracks. I'd suggest any beginner Serato users watch a few of those before even thinking about setting their cue pts. It's incredibly time consuming but it'll be even MORE TIME CONSUMING if you try to skip this step & waste a bunch of your time setting all your cues on an incorrect grid & then have to start over from "Scratch" (pun intended) once you realize how bad Serato is at finding the actual BPM/setting it on the grid initially...
Does the beat jump also apply to those tracks that have a bit of silence before the track? Sometimes I need to move the track up to where the beat starts before marking my cue point.
The further back you can set a cue point is the very beginning of the audio file. So if there is enough silence space before the track starts, you might be able to.
Try Turning on Quantize, that should automatically snap the cue point to where the 1st beat is....Just remember to turn it off if you're trying to set a cue mid beat on a vocal or whatever if you're setting that cue for a scratch intro...
Pdot, why when I scratch in a new song, usually I'm scratching the first beat, which is the kick drum, it sounds so loud and nasty? What sample/note do u use to scratch in the new incoming track?
My biggest tip would be if you’re not doing it already, if you’re trying to mix it in and not just dropping it, don’t have the channel fader all the way up. Have it maybe 60-70% up.
@@JoeL-re8pe first let me say thank you. I'm scratching it in to drop it on the 1. But it seems most times, it's the kick drum I'm scratching in, which sounds terrible, and not the vocal or sample part.
@@PDot first let me say thank you. Yes I'm scratching it in to drop it on the 1, but when I scratch the kick drum note it always sounds terrible, it's not like scratching a vocal.
Sounds like your track is running hot. If your track is redlining while your scratching lower the gain first. Then if it’s still sounding bad try either cut the bass little or keep the channel fader at 70%-80% before fully dropping the track
