MIXVIBES CROSS DJ User Manual page 69

With these two buttons you can move the first downbeat (the line that is
used as the reference point of the grid) to the left or to the right. When this down-
beat is sitting at the right position (exactly on the transient) it makes it easier to use
the automatic sync features of croSS DJ. It is a good practice to zoom into the
waveform before you move the first downbeat/the grid.
use this button to convert the beat closest to the current playback position
into a new downbeat. the button Define Downbeat is only active if the track has a
beatgrid; otherwise it is disabled. the new downbeat resets the cycle/bar/beat-
counter of the track. this is useful if you use the "sync to cycle" feature of croSS
DJ. let's have a look at an example track that shows how this works.
on the track in the following image a beatgrid analysis was performed. croSS
DJ has set the downbeat at the very beginning of the track, even though the track
starts with 4 beats = 1 bar of silence. If we number the first beats of this track with
a Cycle.Bar.Beat schema, the counter for the beats is 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.2.1.
Because the track starts with 4 beats of silence, this numbering is wrong and does
not reflect the real musical structure of that track. The fifth beat, which is the first
audible beat, should be 1.1.1. If you drag the waveform to this beat and click on
Define Downbeat, croSS DJ adds a new downbeat marker to the grid (marked
with the yellow triangles), and resets the internal beatcounter.
1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.2.1
the internal beatcounter that croSS DJ uses to automatically sync to the cycle/
bar/beat of the track in the other player, now has a correct value to do this syn-
chronisation.
If the configured BPM detection range does not fit to the tempo of the gen-
re, you often get Bpm values which are twice as large or half as small as the real
tempo. to correct this kind of Bpm error, you can use these two buttons to halve or
double the Bpm value of the currently loaded track.
to delete all beatgrid information, click the Clear Beatgrid button. When the
track has no beatgrid, the button Analyze Beatgrid is shown. click this button to
perform a Bpm and a beatgrid analysis.
1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.2.1
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