The "what I learned today" thread

[Small City Boy]

Welcome to the forum...

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Today i learnt that this guy above has the right attitude..

All that gridding will be time well spent....

Thanks for the welcome - I've been lurking for a while, but I was a Virtual DJ kid with a BCD3000. Now I'm a Traktor geezer soon to be the proud owner of an X1!

after a while those grids and cue points will haunt your dreams mate .

They already haunt me! Especially the cue points - once I've saved up a few more pennies and come to terms with Traktor a bit more, I'm def going to be adding a Midi Fighter to my modest little collection

[Str8upDrew]

I learned, for the millionth time, to grid and set cues on my tracks as soon as possible after getting them. I'm in the middle of a marathon session of 200+ songs right now. I only got about 50 of them today, and today was a big day for getting songs. So for now on (i've said this too many times), I'm beatgridding and setting cues everytime i get a new batch of tunes.

[Small City Boy]

I learned, for the millionth time, to grid and set cues on my tracks as soon as possible after getting them. I'm in the middle of a marathon session of 200+ songs right now. I only got about 50 of them today, and today was a big day for getting songs. So for now on (i've said this too many times), I'm beatgridding and setting cues everytime i get a new batch of tunes.

I've just made the switch to Traktor, so I feel your pain. Busy setting cues and grids for all my tunes. Also finding the comments and ratings feature exceptionally useful. If I find that two particular tunes gel well, I can make a note of it to remind myself later

I've done about 50 of my 809 tracks! This is also proving to be useful culling exercise - loads of tunes are being relegated to the backup drive because I haven't played them in years

[Jester]

took me 4 months to do 6000. never again haha

[sarasin]

I learnt that if you are chopping up some cheese weed and fart at the same time...the smell is pretty much something really new and badass!

[Jester]

i'll keep that in mind bruv, lol *mental note*

[completej]

took me 4 months to do 6000. never again haha

wow, feel you on that one.

I have been collecting music for well over 6 years and have close to 7000 tracks I would consider using for any type of gig. Even after subdividing between very specific categories (electro house, as opposed to tech house, and so on), I found that sitting there for 2-3 hours at a time, keying, setting cue points, and adding comments / "colors" / info about the track made me sick to my stomach after about a month solid.

I had to stop, as I was afraid I would lose the interest in even sitting down and playing.

[Jester]

Yes it can be a long process but once you get on top of it its fine.

[rt24]

I learned today that sets don't need to be low to high energy build up throughout the entire set, a rollercoaster of low to mid to high and back to low and start again is quite good (it also gives people breaks to go get drinks and relax for a bit).

[Jester]

today i learned that we have to start saving hardcore for jester's new controller .. we all know which one!