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The new version of Pioneer DJ’s rekordbox has added an easier way to mix in key. The new ‘traffic light’ system highlights tracks that are suitable to play next, if you want your music to match harmonically. Despite being called a ‘traffic light’ system, it only seems to use the colour green, rather than orange and red for tracks that may clash slightly and tracks that don’t work at all.
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Either way, it’s another way to assist DJs in their mixing. It’s not clear how it will translate, or translate at all to CDJs, but as they already feature a key matching system it’s unlikely to change things too much — the new system works in both Performance and Export mode.
The new 5.4.0 beta is available now and can be downloaded here, but as always, backup your collection before you start playing around with unstable software. Other new features include a ‘library protection’ system to stop anyone editing your collection. rekordbox dj’s evolution is happening at a fast pace, with the latest version adding control of lighting via external DMX boxes.
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Camelot keys for XDJ-RR (Rekordbox) Hey, just wondering if anyone had any ideas (other than mixed in key) that would allow me to get the Camelot wheel keys on my tracks in rekordbox cos I’m kinda musically dumb and the Camelot keys r simple. Set this to match key and neighbouring keys. This works with Camelot keys, Rekordbox keys, Traktor keys and musical notes. If your tracks are colored, it will only show the same colored tracks with this. With this only tracks that have cue points are shown. Half/double BPM. Mixing into half or double BPM is easy!
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Rekordbox™ (Ver 2.5) can now automatically detect the musical key of your tracks. This extra bit of info into the songs’ details (along with BPM/Genre/etc) can come in very handy to create seamless and tasty mixes on the fly. There are two issues however
Rekordbox Key Analysis Camelot
1) Some of the keys that Rekordbox™ provides you with you will not be find on the Camelot Wheel (Figure 1).
Rekordbox Key To Camelot Wheel
Rekordbox Key To Camelot Key
2) People without musical theory background find the number designation (e.g. 2B) much more convenient than its equivalent in musical notation (e.g. F-sharp Major). But Rekordbox™ only gives you the musical notation.
Figure 1- Camelot Wheel
Here is a bit of musical theory to help you figure out the discrepancies and a trick to help you organise your Rekordbox™ databases.
Look at the piano keyboard in Figure 2. The white keys are designated by the letters of the alphabet as shown. The pitch of the note the key makes increases from left to right (e.g. the pitch difference between the two C keys is an octave). The difference in the pitch between adjacent keys is called a semi-tone. If you have two adjacent white keys (e.g. E and F) then the step between the two white keys is called a semi-tone. If you have a black key between two white keys (e.g. between F and G) then going from one of those white keys to the black key between them is also a semi-tone. Now the tricky bit is what to call this black key. It is ambiguous because it is a semi-tone higher than F and a semi-tone lower than G. Going up in frequency is represented by a suffix ‘#’ (called ‘sharp’) while going down in frequency is represented by the suffix ‘b’ (called ‘flat’) in musical notation. Therefore, the black key between F and G can be called either F# (i.e. F-sharp) or Gb (i.e. G-flat). Similarly,
The black key between C and D can be called C# (i.e. C-sharp) or Db (i.e. D-flat)
The black key between D and E can be called D# (i.e. D-sharp) or Eb (i.e. E-flat)
The black key between G and A can be called G# (i.e. G-sharp) or Ab (i.e. A-flat)
The black key between A and B can be called A# (i.e. A-sharp) or Bb (i.e. B-flat)
Camelot Wheel Key Rekordbox
Figure 2- Piano Keyboard
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So next time when Rekordbox™ gives you a key that you cannot find on the Camelot Wheel you’ll know how to convert the output of Rekordbox™ to the corresponding Camelot Wheel entry.
By the way the ‘m’ and ‘M’ in Rekordbox™ output stand for ‘minor’ and ‘Major’ respectively on the Camelot Wheel. For example ‘Gm’ in Rekordbox™ means ‘G Minor’ (i.e. 6A) on the Camelot Wheel.
And here is how to change your Rekordbox™ key detection entries from musical notation (e.g. Em) to the numerical equivalent used in the Camelot Wheel (i.e. 9A).
— Detect the keys of all your tracks by Rekordbox™
— Click on the header ‘Key’ to sort your tracks by their detected keys
— Use Shift-Click to highlight all the songs of the same key (e.g. highlight all tracks with Em)
— Click the little arrowhead on the ‘Info’ tab on the left to open all the information corresponding to the selected tracks
— In the ‘Key’ field change ‘Em’ to 9A
Repeat the same procedure for all the other keys and you will have the Camelot Wheel entries in your Rekordbox™ database in no time at all.
Written by Swim the Shine
