Exporting of Fluid Beatgrids - looking to clarify this

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  • Device model * MacMini M1
  • Version of operating system * macOS 14.6.1
  • Version of djay * 5.1.3
  • Hardware/controllers used * None at present

Your question:

I’m after confirmation of whether the fluid beatgrids in Mac OS can be converted (using a 3rd party app, e.g. DJCU) to another software. My understanding, from looking through prior posts, requests and comments on DJCU’s Youtube page, is that they can’t be.

I just want to be absolutely sure I’ve understood this correctly, and whether there’s any potential workaround - my ultimate target software is DJ.Studio (in which you can manually edit flexible beatgrids - but anything to avoid doing this for a whole buch of tracks would clearly be a big timesaver). I’m aware Traktor Pro 4 also has this feature - but the gotcha there is that you can’t import beatgrids into DJ.Studio.

Any clariication welcome - thanks!

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I was under the impression that DJ Studio had an AI beatgrid system (at least that’s what they claim). Is it not capable of analysing your entire library?

I assume that djay Pro has one up on the competition with the Fluid Beatgrid system, and they’d like to keep it that way. Why not use the software that has the feature you need?

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, it does have a fluid type beatgrid, but Djay Pro’s is clearly better. The reason for using DJ.Studio though is to do all the mix editing etc there. And unfortunately you can’t import a mix done elsewhere (I.e. in Djay Pro) into Studio, thereby taking advantage of Pro’s grids.

I guess I could teach myself how to edit the exported mix in Ableton Live instead of Studio, but a) it’s been many years since using Live and b) Studio has so many more features, and it’s more fun to use.

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Hi @groovekitchen, as far as I know Fluid Beatgrids from djay cannot be exported using DJCU. However, you could contact DJCU support to confirm with them. Thanks.

You may also want to look at the latest release of Neural Mix Pro 2.0. We added Fluid Beatgrids and the ability to batch export songs with quantization for fluctuating BPMs.

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Hmmm sounds like an interesting feature for Neural Mix.

I’ve got a question @Slak_Jaw

Does it apply Pitch lock when exporting Quantized version of tracks?

So the exported track does not sound weird

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Thanks for this :+1: Appreciate your responses

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You’re welcome @groovekitchen

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Yes, I believe this is the case, but I don’t have access to NMP2 at the moment to check. I sent this to our engineering team for confirmation and will report back when I have news.

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@Mufasa, yes, it does. The output is time-stretched while maintaining the original key of the song (without being resampled to a different pitch).

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