Harmonic Mixing for DJ's in LIVE

baseimpulse · Post by **baseimpulse** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:18 am

Hey this is a message to anyone who Dj's with live heavily... does anyone know how to bes achieve HARMONIC MIXING in live? ive just started diving into that arena of HARMONIC mixing or MIXING in KEY, but havent totally mastered that yet. so does anyone have any tips or tricks to achieve that?

Thanks everyone.

nobbystylus · Post by **nobbystylus** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:21 am

one thing you can do is go through all your songs and figure out which key they're in.. and then give each key a colour.. so C = Cyan, C# = Blue, Etc etc .. This makes it easier while your DJing to spot which tracks will fit the key/scale..

lockyp · Post by **lockyp** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:51 am

or purchase mixedinkey.com which is a software you run over your track and it tells you what key its in..Dont know how good it is tho

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:24 am

lockyp wrote:or purchase mixedinkey.com which is a software you run over your track and it tells you what key its in..Dont know how good it is tho

It works great. I made a 50 song mashup .als, all synced up, rock to reggae to funk to tarnce. It was fun, then I used that software, Mixed In Key and I could then pitch songs up or down and the difference was night and day, the mixes sounded SOOO much better. I play guitar, I don't have perfect pitch, despite my name I'm not tone deaf but it really opened up a lot of new mixing potential.

You sound like a spam bot for Mixed in Key.

RePeter · Post by **RePeter** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:20 am

Not wanting to bash mixed in key, but i've been having a rethink about using it recently.
I think sometimes the drums, if mixed loud on a track, and are not tuned can interfer with the results... if MIK can't decide what key the tune is in, it just seems to lump it into a minor (8a).
You obviously get much better results if you chop your tune into phrased loops and run each of them through the software... you can then also spot where the key changes are!
It does take forever though........

Have any of you checked out rapid evolution @ http://www.mixshare.com/

Its free and really feature packed, but I've only used it briefly.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:57 am

If you're harmonically beatmatching, you're only really interested in the intro and outro keys. I use Mixed In Key to determine the intro and outro keys, and include them in the song title (in Camelot notation, along with the tempo), so I can use Live's search facility to find compatible keys & tempos.

It can make the difference between a mediocre and a great mix, and it's so easy to do, even for those of us musically-challenged!

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:07 pm

I use RapuidEvoilution (at mixshare). I love it - it's basically a database that also detects key and bpm. Look into it, it's FREE.

Tone Deft wrote:I made a 50 song mashup .als

Care to share your .als?

laurence · Post by **laurence** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:50 am

RePeter wrote: Have any of you checked out rapid evolution @ http://www.mixshare.com/

yes and i couldnt get it to work because its java and MSdos based- why cant people make nice programs that dont need installers and launchers and work?