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3. The Master Clock panel should now looks like this:
4.
Now activate sync on all Decks by pressing the respective SYNC buttons.
This way, all Decks will instantly follow the Master Clock’s tempo. You can then set the
Master Clock’s tempo to the tempo you intend for your set via the numeric field to the
right of the MASTER button (see picture above):
► Change the Master Clock’s tempo by clicking the displayed BPM value and dragging
your mouse vertically while holding the mouse button depressed (of course you can also
assign raising or lowering the tempo to a keyboard hotkey or MIDI control).
→ You can see the tempos on every Deck changing accordingly.
As in Auto mode, you can change the tempo master at any time by pressing MASTER on the
desired Deck.
Setting TRAKTOR’s Master Clock as tempo master is now recommended for all TRAKTOR
versions, including the Scratch versions, because the phase is now handled separately from
the synchronization. This means, even with Timecode Vinyl or CDs, you can tempo-lock
tracks and you’re still able to tweak the phase through nudging and scratching!
15.10.3 The Beatgrid
A Track Deck can serve as a reliable tempo master only if its song’s tempo was precisely
determined during automatic analysis. If not, the “reference” provided by the Deck would
not be correct. Tracks are analyzed by TRAKTOR in order to determine the BPM (tempo)
as well as the position of the beats (“transients”). Using this information, TRAKTOR cre
ates the so-called
Beatgrid which provides the phase-reference for synchronization.
Tutorials
Synchronization
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