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Track analysis - different BPM choices in "settings"

Hello,

In the preferences of Rekordbox under "Analysis" you have a dropdown with some different BPM ranges.  Can anyone tell me the practical use of it?  Default is something like (75-155 or something like that) so why should I ever change that to a different value? All my tracks are in that range.

Also, why is the manual saying that it's better to do "normal" analysis than "dynamic"? For example, 80's dance and 70's disco, they mostly have very irregular beatgrids.  Actually, for most of thosse, I do not even succeed in a decent analysis.  All have to be adjusted manually (= looooots of work). Perhaps I'm not doing it right.  Some people who can confirm this is a lot of work (and then I mean I'm working 10/15 minutes on setting a manual beatgrid on a 5 minute during track (listen, restart, re-listen, adjust, ... go further, listen, adjust, re-listen, ...)?  Or am I missing the magic trick somewhere?

Regards, Christophe

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Good questions.

1. It's personal preference. I like to mix a lot of DnB tracks, so I would use a BPM range that would encompass 175 BPM. It really boils down to the affect it has for listening to the metronome and for Quantized enabled options for Hot Cues, FX, etc.

2. "Normal" analysis is better for most modern-era music, Top 40, "EDM," etc. Music that is perfectly quantized that never strays from the tempo. Music crated prior to the DAW revolution was never perfectly in sync–multiple takes were often cut/combined using tape, so slight tempo variations–while not obvious when listening to the song, become painfully obvious when trying to beatgrid the track. Even older rap songs, while making use of classic drum machines, often experienced drifting tempos. So in cases of live music or music that was created prior to precision DAW editing, Dynamic analysis is your safest bet since it will compensate for changes in tempo.

Having said that, I prefer to play it extra safe–I import any questionable tracks with unsteady tempos in Ableton and take care of my Beatgridding in there. This guarantees that I fix the issue and makes mixing much easier since I don't have to constantly stroke the platter to compensate for the drifts.

Cheers.

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Hi Lostnthesound,

I don't get it, so you analyse it in Ableton, and then what? Can you import the bmp and beatgrid in to Rekordbox?

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