Native Instruments Traktor 2, User Manual

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14 The Mixing Process
Finding Music in Stores
Purchasing a CD from a local shop is another way to find new music. Music can be
purchased from almost any major electronics store such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and
Target.
Buying CDs from these stores means that you will either have to load a CD into your
computer every time you play a song from it or upload the songs onto your hard drive.
Uploading songs to the hard drive is the most common option and can be accomplished
in many ways such as with iTunes.
Analyzing New Music
This section explains the importance of analyzing new music. Analyzing new music
allows different mixing techniques including mixing by genre, beats per minute, and
key.
Building a Library
Once some new music is found, it is important to organize it into a “library.” Libraries
provide an easy way to look for track in Traktor 2 for live performance. Libraries are
commonly divided into sections for genre, beats per minute, and key.
Libraries can be easily created by putting all of the new
music into one folder on the computer and dragging it into
the “Track Collection” tab in your browser window (Figure
18). Once the music is in the track collection, right click
where the folder was dropped and select “Analyze (Async)”
to analyze the beats per minute and key.
Figure 18: Track Collection