Listening to music files, Checking the beat (beat grid), Adjusting the beat grid – Pioneer DJM-2000NXS User Manual
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Preparing
to
play
Listening to music files
Play the music file in the player panel and check its beat and tempo (BPM).
Checking the beat (beat grid)
1 Click
from
at the top right of the screen.
The enlarged waveform display appears at the bottom of the full waveform display.
2 Drag the music file from the browser panel to the player
panel.
The music file is loaded into the player panel.
3 Click [f].
Playback starts.
! The BPM display shows the tempo measured when the music file was added.
! The enlarged waveform display shows the beat grid which is generated when the
music file was added.
! On the enlarged waveform display, the beats at the beginning of measures are
indicated on the beat grid as red dots every four beats from the start to the end
of the track.
is displayed for music files added with old versions of rekordbox (1.x.x). When
music files are reanalyzed using a new version of rekordbox (2.x.x), the
mark
turns off (
l Re-detecting beat positions and re-measuring the tempo on page 14).
Adjusting the beat grid
The enlarged waveform displays the beat grid with white dots. The beat grid can be
adjusted by the following procedure.
1 Click [f] during playback.
Playback is paused.
2 Drag the enlarged waveform display to the left or to the
right.
Adjust so that the beat matches the vertical white line at the center of the enlarged
waveform display.
! During pause mode, you can adjust the current pause position in frame units by
clicking [m] or [n] and moving it to the left or right.
! The current pause position can be adjusted in millisecond units by using [+/
/–] to zoom in on the enlarged waveform display, and then dragging the wave-
form to the left or right.
3 Click at the lower right of the enlarged waveform
display.
The beat grid adjustment menu’s icons appear at the bottom of the enlarged wave-
form display.
The beat grid display is changed from a white dot display to a blue bar display, and
editing is possible.
4 Click
.
Slide the entire beat grid in function of the white vertical line at the center of the
enlarged waveform display.
! If you want to slide the beat grid beyond a specific position, click
. With
this operation, beat grid points occurring before the white vertical line are locked
and only those beat grid points occurring after the white vertical line will slide.
5 Click at the lower right of the enlarged waveform
display.
The beat grid adjustment menu closes.
The beat grid display switches back to white dots.