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Topic: Forcing a song to play at a certain bpm

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Is there a place to type in the BPM I want to speed up a song to?

Example:

Say I'm using a "Transition" I bought from CrooklynClan to go from 90 BPM to 130 BPM. Virtual DJ sees the transition file as 90 bpm so it can't "sync" the new 130 bpm song to the proper bpm, and with the pitch slider, I can only get it CLOSE to 130 after quite a bit of tweaking, but not dead on 130.

Is there a way I can TELL VDJ that I want it to play a song at a certain bpm?

Thanks!
 
Posted Sun 09 Oct 11 @ 1:57 am
you cant query or set the bpm when scripting, so no... the closest you will get is "match_bpm" but you need to have enough pitch range for the match, and it will sound graney with such a large pitch difference, so I would recommend just using an echo out with "echodoppler" or similar
 
I don't think I'm explaining it right. I'm using a Transition DJ Tool, where the MP3 _ITSELF_ starts at, say, 95 BPM, and speeds up to 130.

Virtual DJ detects it at 95, which is fine, because I can mix it in.

But mixing out, I need my new song to be exactly 130bpm, even though it may originally be something like 125. With the pitch slider, the closest I can get it is like 130.2 which drifts when I mix it.

Does that make sense?
 
you could always map a couple of buttons to

pitch -0.01
pitch +0.02
or an endless encoder
param_greater 50% ? pitch +0.01 : pitch -0.01
 
Tempo changing mp3's are a bitch since VDJ can only focus on one tempo. But what you could do, is loop the first mp3 at some stage, that should give you a fix on the tempo and than manually beatmixing the second in.
 
oh now i get it... just learn how to beatmatch... easy
 
Oh I can beatmatch, been doing it for 15 years. Just difficult when your pitch slider has no precision. So far I've just been doing it with the mouse. Probably easier when I hook up the NS7. But it would be nice to be able to right click the pitch slider and type in the BPM we want the song to play at. Will drop tech support an email for a feature request. :)
 
the reason you is because you are using a 7 bit pitch fader which is incapable of fine pitch adjustments, you need to ypgrade your controller as pretty much all of the new controlers use 14 bit as standard for the pitch faders, but i think you are being a little pedantic, as if you think back only a few years even pioneer gear was only capable of increments of 0.05 only the cdj 1000mk3 was capable of 0.02, just change it with your jog, or as said earler map an endless encoder, or a shift button to make that work on your jog if thats all you have

var 'shift' ? param_greater 50% ? pitch +0.01 : pitch -0.01 : jogwheel

you need to set up a shift bitton for this to work
 
I think he said he was using a mouse.
 
 


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