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James Cater wrote: Beleive me setting 10 warp markers per tune is a real pain. With a direct drive deck you should only need to set 1-3 markers.

it's not at all... just make a loop of 4/8/16 bars or whatever get using the arrow keys on the locators/loop to move it in increments of the size of your loop - then you just tweak the last marker in the loop each time, then turn loop to off if you dont want any of it to loop - it's a piece of piss

there is a tutorial around somewhere for warping, follow it, you can get it up to speed so that it takes seconds to warp a track

Auto-DJ it ain't! It's practice and work.

Keyboard and/or MIDI shortcuts make warping infinitely easier.

I can blast through a track faster than real-time, but only after setting and memorizing keyboard shortcuts, and having done hundreds of tracks.

And if you think monotonous, metronomic, sequenced, non-groove, computer-recorded constant-tempo 4/4 tracks are easy, try older tracks with groove, poor transients, and tempo and/or time signature changes!