User's Guide

VirtualDJ 8 - User’s Guide
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BPM Editor
VirtualDJ has an advanced Sound Engine that will calculate the tempo (BPM value) and the
Beat Grid (CBG) of your tracks with accuracy in almost all cases. In the rare case that either
the BPM value or the Beat Grid of your track are not correct, the BPM Editor will provide all
the tools to easily and accurately calculate and manually adjust them.
To open the BPM Editor, right-click on any of your tracks or click on the BPM display on the
decks of the GUI.
The track will be analyzed and the multi-colored waveform will be displayed, providing
information of its structure, based on the detected frequencies. The grey-scaled
background indicates the 4 beat pattern of the Beat Grid of the track. The red vertical line
indicates the Beatgrid anchor (first detected beat)
- Use a mouse wheel to zoom In/Out and the top scrollbar to navigate through and inside
the track.
- Use the buttons to play/pause/stop the track and the Play marker (green vertical
line) to reposition it.
How to:
There are various ways to adjust and correct the BPM value and the beat -phase of the track
Below are the steps you need to make, depending on possible cases.
The BPM value is already known as a value.
In this case, simply type the BPM value in the BPM field. The CBG of the song will be
updated automatically
The BPM value is double or half the real.
If VirtualDJ has detected the phase of the song correctly, but the BPM value is either half or
double of the real one. Use the buttons to half or double the BPM value