Hi - I am trying to move cue points from Rekordbox 5 on one computer to Traktor 2 on a different computer. I have imported the cue points to Lexicon and can see them there. I then backed up Lexicon and restored it on the second computer Lexicon. I then copied the mp3 files to the second computer and relocated them with Lexicon.
Now when I sync Lexicon to Traktor, it seems to work but all the cue points are missing. They are also missing from the .nml file too (when I open it in notepad).
Any idea what’s going wrong here?
Is the NML file modified at all after the sync? Could be Lexicon is using a different NML file, it will choose the newest Traktor version by default in your Documents/Native Instruments/ folder
So I’ve confirmed that the syncing is doing something because the new playlist shows up in the Traktor and the song has the lock symbol (which I believe means something was touched by Lexicon and then locked intentionally). And the .nml file shows the cue points, but in Traktor the song does not have any cue points.
I took a look at the .nml file and noticed the tags in the code of the .nml file look different than the cue points when I set them manually in Traktor. See examples below:
These are the cue points from lexicon that DO NOT show up:
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“695.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“1446.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“49447.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“97448.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“145449.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“193450.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“Beat Marker” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“241451.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“-1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“S8” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“0” START=“2196.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“0”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“n.n.” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“0” START=“26196.000000” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“1”/>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“EL” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“5” START=“218200.000000” LEN=“6000.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“2”/>
These are cue points I manually set in Traktor that do:
<CUE_V2 NAME=“AutoGrid” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“4” START=“238.490075” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“0”></CUE_V2>
<CUE_V2 NAME=“n.n.” DISPL_ORDER=“0” TYPE=“0” START=“121184.323696” LEN=“0.000000” REPEATS=“-1” HOTCUE=“1”></CUE_V2>
Looks like the Lexicon cue points don’t have the end wrapper… is that an issue? Or do you have other ideas of why those cue points show in the nml but not in Traktor?
No that doesn’t matter.
It’s because they have HOTCUE=“-1” which means they are invisible cues. You can still see them in Traktor when you click the small down arrow button. Reason they are invisible is because they are all “Beat Markers” and in Lexicon they are not visible as cues.
If you want to get rid of that and force Lexicon to write them as normal cues to Traktor, run the Sort Cues recipe. That gets rid of that invisible tag. Right click your tracks → Edit → Recipes → Sort Cues
Ok I’ll try that. Does the sorting method matter?
Also the last 3 don’t have the ‘-1’. Those are the 3 actual cue points I want to show up. The others are beat markers like you said.
Sorting method doesn’t matter