I have used several different digital controllers including Serato. By far I find the Automix feature on djay Pro the best of all of them. Its intro points are actually pretty much on point. It saves me a lot of time, if I don’t know the track. Its exit points are another story. I use the Automix from time to time when doing mixes for my radio station. I have to decide my own mix points when mixing out of a song. Whatever AI is using to decide the intro of each of the tracks, it should use for the mix out too. It needs to look for natural break points. No vocals, just beats, etc. I found setting the time, just has it mixing just before the time limit, which of course doesn’t work at all. I came from the world of mixing vinyl and still have and use my original 1200’s from time to time. I never really got the hang of mixing CD’s and now digitally because of the years of controlling the record itself in the mix. Jog wheels are not the same.
Hi @John_Michaels, welcome to the Community! I recommend that you set Start and End points for your songs and enable them in the Automix Settings.
When I use Automix, this is my personal workflow and it’s been flawless.
So you have to set start and end points for each song??
Yes, exactly. They are similar to Hot Cues, but have this special purpose. It’s part of my workflow when I add new songs to my djay library. It’s pretty quick and easy and puts you in full control of the mix in and mix out points when using Automix.
Hello @Slak_Jaw,
I am an Automix lover too.
I always prepare everything in Automix as a first template for my events.
So, if something goes wrong, I have at least that.
Now, I think there are some possible improvements for this already nice functionality.
One of these would be to make it possible to start songs BEFORE the actual start of a song.
So, when reaching the cue out point of song one, it would be possible to start song 2 earlier, 4 or 8 beats, for example. This would be handy in those cases when you absolutely want to have the actual iconic first beat of song 2 playing loud and clear.
For example, sometimes I want to go to the peak of the build up of Song 1, then having the first beat of Song 2 slamming as beat drop. I guess this is something that I am probably far from being the only one doing. So, could be of general use. And probably not too difficult for the Dev team, as you can already move the cursor before the start of a song. But you can’t place a cue point there (at least not an automix starting point).
I hope I am explaining it well and that it makes some sense.
Thank you.
Yes (as Slak_Jaw already said), but honestly, I personally find it a good training/preparation anyway, so you know exactly what you want to do (at least for beginners/low level intermediates like me).
Thanks for the additional input and feedback @Davidv100
