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A disc jockey (abbreviated D.J. or DJ, sometimes spelld "deejay") is a person who composes and performs music for a live audience, created from samples and loops of commercial recordings augmented with electronic instruments. (The original meaning of "disc jockey" was a person who played recorded music on a radio station and provided live spoken commentary between songs. Nowadays such a person is called a "radio personality".)

A disc jockey (abbreviated D.J. or DJ) is a person who mixes recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" (sometimes spelled "disk", although this is now uncommon) referred to phonograph records, not the later compact discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.

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What are the advantages of WAV vs. MP3?

Being an electronic music producer, file format is something I have to consider at some point. I usually export my songs as .wavs and then convert them to .mp3s later (since they are smaller than .wavs). But can someone tell me which is better…
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Approximately how many cents are in a 1-bpm shift centered around 123 bpm?

Frequently, I want to mix two songs in the same key but different bpms. To transition one song into another, I need to match their bpms. For example, the currently playing song might be at 124 bpm, but the next song on deck might be 120 bpm. In this…
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What is harmonic mixing / mix in key?

I'm currently learning how to become a DJ. One of the concepts that caught my attention was "harmonic mixing". I know some very basic music theory, and I'm having some trouble understanding it. What is harmonic mixing? How can I use it on my DJ…
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Upon loading a track, the CDJ 2000 automatically goes through very quickly (~5 sec per one min of track)

Whenever I load a new track, it automatically goes through very quickly, unless I touch the jog, in which case everything goes back to normal:  Any idea what could occur this issue to appear and how to fix it?
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Can I write a program to calculate the BPM of my mp3s?

I'm a DJ and have stacks of mp3s on my laptop. What I usually do is open the track in Ableton, wait for it to calculate the BPM, and then adjust the track name to XXX_Artist_Track, where XXX is the BPM of the record. I have experience with…
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How to configure Traktor to analyse non-analyzed tracks only

Upon importing a folder to my collection in Traktor, Traktor analyze all tracks, even tracks that the same version of Traktor had already analyzed. How can I configure Traktor so that only non-analyzed tracks get analysed? My settings:
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How can I remove all the tracks contained in a folder and its subfolders from my collection with Traktor 2?

I imported all the tracks contained a folder and its subfolders into my collection. I now want to remove them from my collection: how can I remove all the tracks contained in a folder and its subfolders from my collection with Traktor 2? Right now…
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How much work do DJ's do?

It appears to me that most major DJ's already published their song and are replaying it with some effects during a live show. When a DJ such as Skrillex is on stage and is mixing, how much work are they actually doing?
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How to become a DJ

I'd like to become a DJ, and to tell the truth, I also have made many tracks using Encore notation software. But, now that I want to bring it to reality, I don't know what instruments to purchase. A synthesizer? A DJ Booth? I even have no idea what…
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What exactly does a DJ do when producing a track?

I want to understand what a DJ does when producing a track. For example, let's look at the new track - Martin Garrix feat. Usher - 'Don't Look Down'. Who wrote the lyrics for this track? Who wrote the music for this track? What exactly did Martin…
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What is the difference between the Circle of Fifths and the Camelot Wheel?

I understand the Camelot Wheel is used by DJs to mix songs of different keys together by using adjacent and relative major/minor keys. Can't this same information be deduced from the Circle of Fifths? I don't understand the need for a separate tool…
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Proper way to learn to dj and beat match for a total beginner!

To all kind people who read this, my greetings :-) I love EDM and wanted to do DJ, so, i searched and searched web all day and ended up firefox cursing me for clicking all kinda sites to just see ads...i can't find a good guide and moreover i use…
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Do DJs ever use a third track to keep a third kick going for several songs or even entire sets? Or is the effect of "silkiness" achieved another way?

I listen to a lot of a specific genre, progressive house, but one DJ in particular, Hernan Cattaneo, seems to achieve a "silkiness" in his bass drum during transitions (or maybe it just stands out to me during transitions). For example, the first…
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Pause Traktor deck automatically when cue point is reached?

I have a cue point that marks the point in a track where I want playback to stop on Deck A. Is there a way to "tell" Traktor to pause as soon as this cue point is reached?
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Can I force Traktor to use more than one CPU when analyzing tracks?

I have many checks to analyze with Traktor and the latter only use is one CPU when analyzing tracks despite having activated the multi-CPU support: Can I force Traktor to use more than one CPU when analyzing tracks? Using my 12 cores instead of one…
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