*WARNING! This only works if you're using this specific type of "DJ intro" tracks & more importantly, it only works if Serato's AI has correctly guessed the BPM when it initially analyzed the track... Biggest issue I've found with Serato is that it will only guess the grid correctly if you're using electronic music & even then, it only gets it right maybe 60% of the time! When you factor in non-DJ edits or even DJ edits that feature real instruments, Serato only gets the grid right maybe 20% of the time... Meaning 80% of your tracks won't be set correctly on the grid when you upload them!!! Further meaning, if you're just clicking through each track setting all your cues without actually listening to your tracks, you're gonna be in for a real rude awakening when you go to play those tracks at a gig for the 1st time & realize Serato set the grid on the up-beat instead of the down beat... The resulting sound will be excruciating on the ears & you'll look like a total doofus! Traktor's AI is 1000X more accurate, so I'd recommend going that route for any beginners & for those of you who've already purchased Serato, I'd advise highly against setting cue pts this way! Unless you're into wasting your time doing things the wrong way &/or wasting copious amounts of time by doing things twice....Unfortunately, you're gonna hafta actually listen to your music (or at least click through it), when uploading new tracks for the 1st time, strictly to ensure the grid is aligned correctly.... There's some really good tutorials out there for adjusting the grid of your tracks. I'd suggest any beginner Serato users watch a few of those before even thinking about setting their cue pts. It's incredibly time consuming but it'll be even MORE TIME CONSUMING if you try to skip this step & waste a bunch of your time setting all your cues on an incorrect grid & then have to start over from "Scratch" (pun intended) once you realize how bad Serato is at finding the actual BPM/setting it on the grid initially...
Great stuff my guy, I have a question. I use a PC to play on Serato DJ. How ever my music loading time seem slow and it lags most time and the freezes before it loads the tracks. How can I Potentially resolve this issue??
Another Dope video as usual, thanks for the knowledge.1👊🏾Yo P, I'm having trouble creating smart crates. Do you have a tutorial on how to create smart crates?
Great Video. is there a solution for a more accurate beatgridding tool I am finding that approx 20% of tracks in Serato are not being beat gridded correctly after analysing (including electronic tracks House/Techno/Breakbeat etc) I know how to manually adjust beatgrids the standard way but I am having to play right through every track in my library (because I don't know which are right) check the beat grid as its playing and if necessary then going into adjust and listening to the whole song checking each marker (as some tracks will be on point and then after the break they will be off (I am not talking about transition tracks as I don't have any regular house/techno/breakbeat tracks)) This is extremely time consuming, boring and annoying especially as its something Serato should be doing when it is analysing the tracks. I am finding this is more common (but not exclusive to) on tracks that don't start on a beat ie intro will start with a synth/someone talking/singing etc. I am willing to pay if there is a separate program that does this more acuratly and imports this beat grid into Serato DJ pro
*WARNING! This only works if you're using this specific type of "DJ intro" tracks & more importantly, it only works if Serato's AI has correctly guessed the BPM when it initially analyzed the track... Biggest issue I've found with Serato is that it will only guess the grid correctly if you're using electronic music & even then, it only gets it right maybe 60% of the time! When you factor in non-DJ edits or even DJ edits that feature real instruments, Serato only gets the grid right maybe 20% of the time... Meaning 80% of your tracks won't be set correctly on the grid when you upload them!!! Further meaning, if you're just clicking through each track setting all your cues without actually listening to your tracks, you're gonna be in for a real rude awakening when you go to play those tracks at a gig for the 1st time & realize Serato set the grid on the up-beat instead of the down beat... The resulting sound will be excruciating on the ears & you'll look like a total doofus! Traktor's AI is 1000X more accurate, so I'd recommend going that route for any beginners & for those of you who've already purchased Serato, I'd advise highly against setting cue pts this way! Unless you're into wasting your time doing things the wrong way &/or wasting copious amounts of time by doing things twice....
Does the beat jump also apply to those tracks that have a bit of silence before the track? Sometimes I need to move the track up to where the beat starts before marking my cue point.
The further back you can set a cue point is the very beginning of the audio file. So if there is enough silence space before the track starts, you might be able to.
Try Turning on Quantize, that should automatically snap the cue point to where the 1st beat is....Just remember to turn it off if you're trying to set a cue mid beat on a vocal or whatever if you're setting that cue for a scratch intro...
Pdot, why when I scratch in a new song, usually I'm scratching the first beat, which is the kick drum, it sounds so loud and nasty? What sample/note do u use to scratch in the new incoming track?
My biggest tip would be if you’re not doing it already, if you’re trying to mix it in and not just dropping it, don’t have the channel fader all the way up. Have it maybe 60-70% up.
@@JoeL-re8pe first let me say thank you. I'm scratching it in to drop it on the 1. But it seems most times, it's the kick drum I'm scratching in, which sounds terrible, and not the vocal or sample part.
@@PDot first let me say thank you. Yes I'm scratching it in to drop it on the 1, but when I scratch the kick drum note it always sounds terrible, it's not like scratching a vocal.
Sounds like your track is running hot. If your track is redlining while your scratching lower the gain first. Then if it’s still sounding bad try either cut the bass little or keep the channel fader at 70%-80% before fully dropping the track
i like to jump 8bars （32beats) from cue1 to cue2 (not a radio Version ). Cue3 for 8bars before the
outro .
Literally the exact way I set mine up! I take it 1 step further and and set cues for the different parts of the songs I'd need to get to quickly.
That's a great tip!
I usually have 2 cue points at the first point and the first drop.
I scratch myself in and set the right moment for the transition with Beatjump
*WARNING! This only works if you're using this specific type of "DJ intro" tracks & more importantly, it only works if Serato's AI has correctly guessed the BPM when it initially analyzed the track...
Biggest issue I've found with Serato is that it will only guess the grid correctly if you're using electronic music & even then, it only gets it right maybe 60% of the time! When you factor in non-DJ edits or even DJ edits that feature real instruments, Serato only gets the grid right maybe 20% of the time... Meaning 80% of your tracks won't be set correctly on the grid when you upload them!!! Further meaning, if you're just clicking through each track setting all your cues without actually listening to your tracks, you're gonna be in for a real rude awakening when you go to play those tracks at a gig for the 1st time & realize Serato set the grid on the up-beat instead of the down beat... The resulting sound will be excruciating on the ears & you'll look like a total doofus!
Traktor's AI is 1000X more accurate, so I'd recommend going that route for any beginners & for those of you who've already purchased Serato, I'd advise highly against setting cue pts this way! Unless you're into wasting your time doing things the wrong way &/or wasting copious amounts of time by doing things twice....Unfortunately, you're gonna hafta actually listen to your music (or at least click through it), when uploading new tracks for the 1st time, strictly to ensure the grid is aligned correctly.... There's some really good tutorials out there for adjusting the grid of your tracks. I'd suggest any beginner Serato users watch a few of those before even thinking about setting their cue pts. It's incredibly time consuming but it'll be even MORE TIME CONSUMING if you try to skip this step & waste a bunch of your time setting all your cues on an incorrect grid & then have to start over from "Scratch" (pun intended) once you realize how bad Serato is at finding the actual BPM/setting it on the grid initially...
I need more intro versions for sure. This will be an awesome skill to learn and use! Thanks PDot!
Thank you for always coming through to support! Much appreciated!
Yo thanks for the shoutout bro!
Had to! Thank YOU for helping the community!!!
Great stuff my guy, I have a question. I use a PC to play on Serato DJ. How ever my music loading time seem slow and it lags most time and the freezes before it loads the tracks. How can I
Potentially resolve this issue??
Awesome
Another Dope video as usual, thanks for the knowledge.1👊🏾Yo P, I'm having trouble creating smart crates. Do you have a tutorial on how to create smart crates?
I actually have a video on smart crates coming up soon!
No outro cues?
Thank you homie mad props to you.
Great Video. is there a solution for a more accurate beatgridding tool I am finding that approx 20% of tracks in Serato are not being beat gridded correctly after analysing (including electronic tracks House/Techno/Breakbeat etc) I know how to manually adjust beatgrids the standard way but I am having to play right through every track in my library (because I don't know which are right) check the beat grid as its playing and if necessary then going into adjust and listening to the whole song checking each marker (as some tracks will be on point and then after the break they will be off (I am not talking about transition tracks as I don't have any regular house/techno/breakbeat tracks)) This is extremely time consuming, boring and annoying especially as its something Serato should be doing when it is analysing the tracks. I am finding this is more common (but not exclusive to) on tracks that don't start on a beat ie intro will start with a synth/someone talking/singing etc. I am willing to pay if there is a separate program that does this more acuratly and imports this beat grid into Serato DJ pro
which button do you beat jump on mac ?
Thank you, that beat jump control was the missing piece to my work flow
Beat Jump is probably my most used feature on Serato and Rekordbox
Awesome vid!!! Now I have to go through my entire library lol
I hope this helps speed up the process!
*WARNING! This only works if you're using this specific type of "DJ intro" tracks & more importantly, it only works if Serato's AI has correctly guessed the BPM when it initially analyzed the track...
Biggest issue I've found with Serato is that it will only guess the grid correctly if you're using electronic music & even then, it only gets it right maybe 60% of the time! When you factor in non-DJ edits or even DJ edits that feature real instruments, Serato only gets the grid right maybe 20% of the time... Meaning 80% of your tracks won't be set correctly on the grid when you upload them!!! Further meaning, if you're just clicking through each track setting all your cues without actually listening to your tracks, you're gonna be in for a real rude awakening when you go to play those tracks at a gig for the 1st time & realize Serato set the grid on the up-beat instead of the down beat... The resulting sound will be excruciating on the ears & you'll look like a total doofus!
Traktor's AI is 1000X more accurate, so I'd recommend going that route for any beginners & for those of you who've already purchased Serato, I'd advise highly against setting cue pts this way! Unless you're into wasting your time doing things the wrong way &/or wasting copious amounts of time by doing things twice....
Thanks bro!!
Nice- gonna try this. Thanks for the tip👍
Give it a try. It’s saved me a bunch of time!
Nice!
Does the beat jump also apply to those tracks that have a bit of silence before the track?
Sometimes I need to move the track up to where the beat starts before marking my cue point.
The further back you can set a cue point is the very beginning of the audio file. So if there is enough silence space before the track starts, you might be able to.
Try Turning on Quantize, that should automatically snap the cue point to where the 1st beat is....Just remember to turn it off if you're trying to set a cue mid beat on a vocal or whatever if you're setting that cue for a scratch intro...
that's the way I adjust the beat grid
love it!
Thank you for watching!
How do you change song without dropping it into playing mode
I use the down arrow on my keyboard to move to the next song, the press shift+left arrow to load the track.
hit the next track butting with out the song playing
🔥🔥
Hope you found it helpful!
What about the chorus
If you like to set cue points around the chorus you can use beat jump to speed that up as well. I usually don't put cue points there personally.
Pdot, why when I scratch in a new song, usually I'm scratching the first beat, which is the kick drum, it sounds so loud and nasty?
What sample/note do u use to scratch in the new incoming track?
There’s a few different ways you can try. What are you trying to do though? Are you scratching it in to mix or scratching it in to drop right away?
My biggest tip would be if you’re not doing it already, if you’re trying to mix it in and not just dropping it, don’t have the channel fader all the way up. Have it maybe 60-70% up.
@@JoeL-re8pe first let me say thank you. I'm scratching it in to drop it on the 1. But it seems most times, it's the kick drum I'm scratching in, which sounds terrible, and not the vocal or sample part.
@@PDot first let me say thank you. Yes I'm scratching it in to drop it on the 1, but when I scratch the kick drum note it always sounds terrible, it's not like scratching a vocal.
Sounds like your track is running hot. If your track is redlining while your scratching lower the gain first. Then if it’s still sounding bad try either cut the bass little or keep the channel fader at 70%-80% before fully dropping the track
How do you get the next song to come up
I use the down arrow on my keyboard to move to the next song, the press shift+left arrow to load the track.
@@PDot quicker way is to use alt + w to move to the next track
hit the next track butting
Real djs don’t use q points