First off, let me start by saying that I am so incredibly hyped to find a program like this that could potentially make life as a ambdextrous software easy! That being said, I have some initial thoughts and questions that I would want answered before I switch my workflow over from OneTagger and DJCU.
1. Moving automatically generated cues
What is the best workflow here? I am very impressed by the auto-cue generation tool, and the few songs I tested on it, worked almost as expected. However, since cues are both colored and named by the tool, it is pretty time consuming to delete an incorrect cue, re-place it, rename it and recolor it. Is there a method for shifting cues by a set amount?
2. Cue point color templates
I am coming from Djay Pro, which has a set color palette for the cue points. I have somewhat gotten used to these colors, and was wondering if you had any plans to add in a custom color scheme for cue points.
3. Beatgrid detection
My experiences with Rekordbox’s beatgrid detection have been less than stellar, and unfortunately after testing a few tracks, it seems like the Lexcixon’s detection is similar to Rekordbox (I understand that this is a really hard thing to do with some tracks, so this is in no way a diss). Djay’s algorithm is very robust, and is what has been keeping me within the Djay ecosystem when adding new songs to my library. Is beatgrid information stored within the metadata of a song? I would love to be able to use Djay to analyze songs, and then pump that information back into Lexicon where I could then add cues.
Again, so stoked to have found a program that can allow for a centralized library system, promoting use of different DJ softwares!
Ah amazing! The SHIFT+Click shortcut was exactly what I was looking for. As for the beatgrid importing, I tested it out, and have been getting some mixed results. There seems to be one edge case where the beatgrid import fails, and that is with songs that start on pickups. Even when set the start cue on the downbeat, the import feature seems to ignore the position of the start cue and is just placing it at the beginning of the track, starting the beatgrid there (I have both Cue Points and Beatgrid selected in the fields menu). I have a small handful of songs that use a dynamic beatgrid, so I have no issue doing those by hand, but having to adjust every song with a pickup is a tad on the annoying side.
Thanks again for the speedy reply!
If you can upload your Djay database and let me know which tracks had the BPM change then I can check that and hopefully improve it.
This is your Djay database: Music/djay and you can upload with this link: http://upload.lexicondj.com
Awesome, just uploaded it! The songs aren’t having issues with BPM changes, just having issues with where the beatgrid starts. The beatgrid should start at the load cue, but instead it is starting at the beginnning of the song. Sorting alphabetically by track name, here are the first 10 songs that start on pickups and therefore have beatgrids that are offset:
- 079
- 1977
- 4EVA
- Abstract Poetic
- Accelerate
- Acid Cumbia
- Agolo
- Aguila
- Alhambra
- All I Ever Wanted
If I were to add all the songs with incorrect beginning offsets it would be something around 400, as it seems like it’s about a 50% chance a song doesn’t start on the 1 of the measure.
Cool thanks, super helpful. Will let you know soon, prob next week.
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Amazing, thank you! For the time being, it looks like beatgrids import correctly from Rekordbox, so I’ll do that for now.
One other question, is there a keyboard shortcut to rename cue points?
Okay I found the start of the grid for 079 at 1.5s so that’s what it will use. I didn’t check the other tracks but if it was the same problem they will be fixed too.
This will be in the next big update, v1.9. Prob a few weeks or maybe a month from now, hopefully. Let me know how it works then please.
