Playing with USB's... Organize your music

Since the advent of the usb port on CDJ’s I’ve seen a majority of djs shifting over to this new medium, what surprises me is many of the local dj’s here in South Africa overlook using softwares to organize their music they tend to just copy folders over to their sticks and comfortably play off this organizing system , however considering using a software to help you organize, could have major benefits in the way you organize your music and the way you perform it, leading the pack in the music organizing software is Pioneer’s very own REKORDBOX packs a punch in the way you keep your music organized on your sticks as well as on your laptop , look at it as an iTunes for dj’s 

Pioneer Rekordbox has been a revolution for CDJ DJs who wanted to move beyond CDs to get more creative with their mixing. It has become the go-to software for USB- and SD-card DJs who want to take advantage of computer-based management and preparation of their music, but don’t want to use a laptop in the booth, however with a third party software in could also be the perfect music organizing to for Dj’s using Serato & Traktor. Rekordbox 3.0 – the latest version of this software comes with a fresh new interface and quicker file analyzing, It allows the user to analyse, organise, add cue points, artwork and more, all before your set begins, not only saving time during your sets but allowing personal playlists and settings to be loaded instantly.

Some detail functions that this software helps with is

Fix Beat Grid and starting cue for more accurate bpm reading:

Many times we might take for granted that the technology in the cdj’s tend to calculate a track’s bpms fairly accurate however this is quite far from the truth, that there a usually sight miscalculations which could affect your beatmatching as the track progress further in play,even in sync mode these track can slowly play out of sync creating phasing and double beating. RekordBox allows you to manually correct these faults by providing a metronome click which assits you in lining up your track and fixing any beat grid problems giving you the accurate bpm of your track. It also allows you to setup your correct starting cue , for those who are annoyed for looking for that first beat in your long intro track, this saves you both time and frustration in getting you track ready for beatmatching.

Memory for cues and loops

The RekordBox allows to also create other cue points besides your starting cue point, helpful if you want to have various cue points in different parts in your track that you want to jump to , as well as setting up loop point of various sizes from 1- 8 bars quite helpful if you have a little loop in a specific track that you want to keep running, all these cue & loop points can be saved into a memory file can store up to 10 different points and can be recalled when the track is loade from your stick onto the CDJ

Key Analyse

Another great utility the RekordBox adds when analyzing  is place the key within your tags in  order to have your track referenced with the key so that it is easier to identitfy certain tracks to be played together if you the type of Dj that mixes in key(which is quite vital in the art of track blending)

Having these extra advantage can take you music prep to another level and also help you be more creative behind the box

Below is a little video giving a bit of an understanding on how the RekordBox