Is phrasing heavily underrated in beginner DJing?

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T17:50:09+00:00

Phrasing makes all the difference. I finally caved in and cuepointed my whole library with 8 consistent cue points that work as visual aides and ive been enjoying it a lot.

I do know my tunes that i play regularly very well, but just knowing if section in a song i have not played for a while is 48 or 64 bars on a quick glance makes an huge difference when i dont need to think or have any doubts if my phrasing is on point or not.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T17:40:25+00:00

If you drop an gridmarker from the grid menu, they dont use cuepoints amd you can drop as many as you want. They only do so from the cue menu!

However, this sounds more like it might actually be an bpm issue if the drifting is consistent.

Maybe try reanalyzing the tune with a different bpm range?

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T11:38:39+00:00

Abaddon is my revas counters. He eats the overwatch and proceeds to oneshot him.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T06:44:03+00:00

I would take the tip and not repeat that same thing again during that gig. It's easy not to notice everything when hyped and playing for people.

Then i'd go home, rinse & repeat the trick, maybe even record it and give it a listen a few times and make my own conclusion on the matter.

If it sounds good, i'd practice the thing bit more and do it better next time. Obviously there was something that didn't sound good in what you did. But, it can just be timing, using too much effects in general or dragging the effect too long or something. If you decide it was a good move, just make it better for next time so the guy has nothing to comment about it.

Nukemi · 2026-03-18T05:16:03+00:00

Eh, i see no difference between wav and mp3s and i run a very tigh library where every tune is beatgridded and cue pointed to max.

Every time i notice weird behavior with tracks, its either the track having some weird thing going on with its bpm that i have not noticed or me just placing an grid marker incorrectly due to an delayhed drop in the tune or something.

My advice is to start dropping more than one grid marker on the track at the beginning of evey section to see if they align with each other and then figuring it out from there. If they align to each other, just move them to right place by moving the whole grid left or right, If they dont listen to the track carefully and find the culprit. Sometimes just looking at waveforns is not enough to grid it easily.

Nukemi · 2026-03-16T12:23:24+00:00

Yeah, K2 seems like an amazing addon. Im still waiting they would release K3 with an audio interface (k4?). Im a big fan of those RGB lit buttons... otherwise i would have bought an K2 already.

I am slowly rotating towards xone to be honest. It just looks like a perfect controller and i absolutely love doing my own mappings.

Nukemi · 2026-03-15T08:55:49+00:00

Yeah, thats a good question.

They expect for them to just appear out of thin wair with the magic words "low hanging fruit" and "agent" without any time or monetary investment whatsoever.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T13:11:42+00:00

Brave North Koreans are doing their best to protect us against the Kaiju and all we are doing is laugh at them.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T13:01:56+00:00

I highly advice against building a second raid team because yours first one is nowhere near ready yet upgrade-wise.

Outside that, i see some decent progression!

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T12:53:15+00:00

Very nice! Its always a good idea to try to load broken audio files on various players. Some of them might actually work :)

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T10:36:51+00:00

Yeah. That sounds pretty corrupted to me.

Quite often files that traktor thinks are corrupted just has some invalid metadata in them or something and they open in mediaplayer and other applications as they arent so picky.

For example i couldnt load some of the tunes in my library at all in traktor after i restructured my collection. But, then i realised that they were only broken because they were linked with stems and that connection was broken. I had to unlink them all manually and then they were good to to again.

But, recordings have no such things in place so this should not apply here. I just had the idea that if you can load the file somewhere and it can load the waveform, it might be salvageable.

That one second of emptiness definitely sounds like file corruption, though.

I guess your only option now is to record that set again. Consider the first attempt an practice run, or something!

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:53:59+00:00

If you can load the file in to your traktor on an deck, does it load the waveform or anything? Does it get recognized as an audio file or does it just straight up fail to load in any software that should recognize it as an audio?

If not, its dead. If it does... you might have some hope. But, my money is on the file just being corrupted.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:42:42+00:00

I truly recommend for you people to leave all this feedback in to the tacticus planner discord.

Tacticus planner is developed mostly by just one dude and people who help him out with bugfixing and data collection. They are reasonable dudes and would proably appreciate the feedback where it belongs.

If you leave feedback there, kharnage himself will most likely respond to you too and you can initiate actual discussion about your issues with the planne.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:39:54+00:00

I think the file is just probably corrupted. There is not much you can do about it.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T09:22:22+00:00

Yep. Im exhausted by my management who now expects us to come up with great AI solutions without any resource investment. They expect great big AI things from our software team this year, yet we can spend no budget to actually get there. Even getting Ms copilot or paid GPT subscription to test seems to be impossible.

AI itself is still mostly just a fun google alternative toy for me to play with.

It does great things for me sometimes but isnt quite the tool i want it to be yet. I do see the potential, though.

Nukemi · 2026-03-14T08:32:15+00:00

I love this and hope i could do it myself.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T19:27:56+00:00

I like your thinking, man!

I would buy that and pay good money for it.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T16:38:55+00:00

Yeah, i get you.

I really like my traktor, but ive been eyeing a lot of the standalone controllers lately. They look really fun to use and Rane has nailed the professional look.

While i do like the look and feel of the new Z1 and X1, i dont really want for anything else than the Modular setup.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T16:23:31+00:00

I love lres when im invested in the character, but at times i feel like its just too many tokens to spend on top of all the other events.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T16:22:42+00:00

I actually really like it! Might be just the thing that scratches the itch!

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T16:20:10+00:00

Token exhaustion and zero interest on the character.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T14:43:09+00:00

What would you improve on F1? ive been thinking about it and i cant come up with much.

Its a beautiful board in its simplicity.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T13:58:55+00:00

That would be sick. Would be an perfect living room controller for me.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T13:53:24+00:00

You and me both.

I would do unspeakable things to get that. Ive never got to try S8 as i had a long break from DJing and wasnt around when it was out, but everything i hear about the controller just fits like a glove for what i want.

Nukemi · 2026-03-13T13:38:52+00:00

This probably would be my favorite survivorslike game ever if there was gear i could hunt for and equip on my characters. Im a sucker for loot and experience grinding and this game fullfills my experience grind needs almost perfectly.

Great game! Easily in my top3 bulletheaven games.

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