myl//hy
11-23-2013, 11:35 PM
Is there any way to use the new KEY feature from within a playlist?
I've got my Macbook Pro running Rekordbox connected to the CDJs via Pro-Link/wifi, so both my CDJs have access to my entire 5000+ song collection. (Awesome for requests!) I've setup a bunch of playlists in Rekordbox to arrange and filter my song collection -- for example, I have a playlist for "Anthems", a playlist for "Instrumentals", and a playlist for "80s & 90s remixes"; each playlist contains maybe 100 songs. When performing an (unplanned) set, I pretty much rotate through them, i.e., play one Anthem, then one Instrumental, then one 80s/90s remix, then back to Anthem. And of course I want to mix harmonically between them.
But there's no way to use the KEY feature from within playlists -- e.g., if I want an Instrumental in Aminor, the KEY feature shows me every single song in Rekordbox that's in Aminor, literally hundreds and hundreds of tracks when I only want suggested keys from the Instrumental playlist.
Cleanest workaround I can find is to put all the Anthems on one memory stick, all the Instrumentals on another memory stick, and all the 80s/90s remixes on an SD card. Or I could abandon the native KEY feature altogether and switch over to Camelot System, which is its own hot mess. How are other CDJ Nexus guys handling this? Either I'm missing something (I hope?) or this cool new KEY feature is unusable with a large library. :shrug:
Rekordbox v2.2.0, CDJ-2000 Nexus firmware 1.21
I've got my Macbook Pro running Rekordbox connected to the CDJs via Pro-Link/wifi, so both my CDJs have access to my entire 5000+ song collection. (Awesome for requests!) I've setup a bunch of playlists in Rekordbox to arrange and filter my song collection -- for example, I have a playlist for "Anthems", a playlist for "Instrumentals", and a playlist for "80s & 90s remixes"; each playlist contains maybe 100 songs. When performing an (unplanned) set, I pretty much rotate through them, i.e., play one Anthem, then one Instrumental, then one 80s/90s remix, then back to Anthem. And of course I want to mix harmonically between them.
But there's no way to use the KEY feature from within playlists -- e.g., if I want an Instrumental in Aminor, the KEY feature shows me every single song in Rekordbox that's in Aminor, literally hundreds and hundreds of tracks when I only want suggested keys from the Instrumental playlist.
Cleanest workaround I can find is to put all the Anthems on one memory stick, all the Instrumentals on another memory stick, and all the 80s/90s remixes on an SD card. Or I could abandon the native KEY feature altogether and switch over to Camelot System, which is its own hot mess. How are other CDJ Nexus guys handling this? Either I'm missing something (I hope?) or this cool new KEY feature is unusable with a large library. :shrug:
Rekordbox v2.2.0, CDJ-2000 Nexus firmware 1.21