A Closer Look At The Beat Matcher /74 - MIXVIBES CROSS DJ User Manual

Importing and Mixing your Music
7.8 A closer Look at the Beat Matcher
let's have a closer look at the Beat matcher so we can understand what informa-
tion it provides and how it can assist you in achieving the synchronisation of two
tracks.
the Beat matcher can display three different kinds of information: the peaks, the
beatgrid and the sync meters.
Peaks of the Track
the peaks display in the Beat matcher shows a kind of level information of the
tracks currently loaded in the players. the peaks view is always on and cannot be
disabled. the peaks data is analyzed when you drag a new track onto one of the
players, or when you select Analyze all or Analyze Peak only in the context menu
for the tracks in the track browser.
In both waveforms you can see several vertical lines. these lines represent the
peaks, or transients, in the track. Depending on the rhythm of the track, these
peaks may be the beats of the track, but they may not always be where the beats
are. the track in player a (upper waveform) shows some longer and some shorter
peak lines. In most cases the longer lines are there where the beats are. the beats
in player B are much more obvious; the part you see in the image is from the track
intro which has a clear beat.
If you move the waveform of player B by pitch bending to get two peak lines aligned
it becomes very clear, as you can see in the following image.
the larger distance between beats in player B implies that the tempo of that track
is too slow compared with the track in player a. If you were to start playback of
both tracks with the image above as a starting point, the beats would only match
for a short period of time; quite soon the beats in player B will be heard later than
the one in player a. to correct this you would need to raise the playback Bpm of
player B.
the last image of the Beat matcher shows a situation where the tempo of both
players is the same and where the beats are aligned: both tracks are now syn-
chronised.
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