Operation Manual

Right clicking on a track displays many options:

Preview – for launching the separate track preview

interface

File Info – for launching the File Info dialog to modify data

field content

File Operations like - copy, move, and delete files

o When selecting Delete a warning is displayed about

deleting the file(s) from your system

BPM analyze track options – Re-Analyze or Manual Edit

Add OR Remove songs from the search database

Remove the link to a video file for audio tracks

The BPM Engine analyzes the audio to determine the tempo of the track. To analyze a track

can be performed 2 ways – Load the track to a deck or right-click on the track in the Brower

panel and select BPM -> Re-Analyze. To analyze a group of tracks, from the left Navigation

panel right-click on a folder and select Scan for BPMs.

If the tracks have been analyzed by an external application prior to being loaded into VirtualDJ

and that value is stored in the BPM ID3 Tag, then BPM Engine will use the stored value as a

reference when analyzing the track. VirtualDJ will calculate a more precise value (0.05 BPM

precise) not more than +/- 1 BPM away from the value of the tag. It will never try a greater

difference.

Part of the BPM Engine is also a Key Detection Engine. Determining the ‘musical key’ of a

track allows for the ability to harmonically mix tracks that necessarily would not typically be

mixed together. However, because the two tracks harmonically blend, the mix can sound

clean and be pleasing to the ear. Harmonic mixing or “Mixed in Key” is the base for modern

Mash-up style tracks. The Key Detection Engine strongly

favors minor keys, as most songs played by DJs are in minor

key. But if the key is strongly major, it'll still be reported as a

major.

Another NEW addition to the BPM detection is the inclusion

of the Beat Tap action. By left-clicking on the BPM button

for the corresponding track one can tap out the beat of

the track from the skin. Also the keyboard shortcut action -

beat_tap - can be assigned to a keyboard key. The beat_tap

action can also be added to a controller’s mapper for tap

capabilities straight from the controller.

If the BPM (or the Key) is manually entered using the File

Info dialog, then VirtualDJ will remember this and will not analyze the BPM or Key unless

forced by selecting the BPM -> Re-Analyze function. So a song analyzed by prior versions will

be reanalyzed. But a song where the BPM was manually changed in prior versions will not be

automatically reanalyzed.

TRACK OPTIONS

BPM ANALYSIS AND KEY DETECTION

Camelot Sound Easymix System

http://www.harmonic-mixing.com/overview/easymix.mv