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The button will light up to show that there is a Cue Point set. To delete a Cue Point click the symbol in the cue point display area or hold SHIFT and press the HOT CUE button for the cue point you want to delete on your hardware. Looping & Cue Points. Djay offers you a range of different looping styles. Manually set loop in and out points, use Auto-Loop to continuously loop part of a song, or remix live using Bounce-Loop to mash up your song, all in perfect sync with the beat. Cue Points allow you to set, save and quickly jump to markers within a song. You can manually transfer your user data (cue points, analyzed file data, and history) with the iOS File Manager app. In order to do so, please follow these steps: In the iOS File Manager go to 'On My iPad' in the Locations tab. Depending on which apps user data you want to transfer, open the corresponding folder (djay 2 or djay Pro). Apr 23, 2017 Small-time developers making unique utility apps for DJs often come up with some of the best ideas and most useful tools. Today we're featuring DJ Conversion Utility - which enables DJs to move cue points, loops, key data, beatgrids, and more between a few prominent apps. If you've used Traktor for a while and want to try something new, this makes the switch easier to stomach. I have been using Djay Pro 2 on a macbook for a few months and had built up quite a large cue points library. I am now trying to setup Djay Pro 2 on my other windows computer, however I don't have any of the cue points. Is there any way to transfer the cue points library from mac to PC?
All the data for BPM, Cue Points etc. is stored in the database file for Virtual DJ. Find it in Documents -> Virtual DJ and then copy the database.xml file (might be called something different for V7) – that is your backup. It’s probably worth backing up that entire “Virtual DJ” folder if I’m honest – it’s the quickest way to get all your data and settings back afterwards if you need to use a backup.
When you want to use the backup, install Virtual DJ first and open it. Then close VDJ. Then replace the “Virtual DJ” folder it has created – the new, blank, one – with your old one. Then open VDJ and all your data should be there. 🙂
Different Note – I do not know of any way to turn VDJ cue points into a Recordbox compatible format – the format you need to transfer them to CDJ’s. Note that this only works with Nexus enabled CDJ’s anyway…
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Every DJ-Software has their own way to save cuepoints, beatgrids and all that stuff, so yes, basically you have to set all your cuepoints and beatgrids again when you change your software.
But VirtualDJ can import Serato and Traktor databases as far as I know. Mixvibes Cross can import Traktor data as well.
But keep your eyes open for a software called RekordBuddy 2.0. It promises too convert cue points and beatgrids from one Software to another. (At least for the big players: Traktor, Serato, Virtual DJ, RekordBox, MixVibes…)
Should be released within a couple of weeks.
Still a pain in the …
About time the industry grows up and comes up with a common, open format set of tags that will allow saving all the cue/loop info with tracks and not in the DJ software. After all, setting those points is YOUR work, YOUR time and it should remain with YOUR tracks.
Just me, of course.
As for beatgrids. I don’t think beatgrids are carried over. Every DJ software uses it’s own way of beatgridding and saving that information. I doubt that it can be transferred. Then again, I haven’t looked at RekordBuddy closely enough and perhaps I missed something 😀
^ Sadly won’t happen. It’s in their interest to make it as difficult as possible to switch software. However better import tools will at least make it easier to convert databases so we should get some help.
This RekordBuddy 2.0 thing seems to hold the greatest promise for moving cues points between softwares but it seems much delayed in being released. Don’t understand why this is so difficult. I don’t think something like Serato writes Cue Point data in an encrypted form into the MP3 files.
Take VirtualDJ >> Serato for example. VirtualDJ has all of the cue point data clearly written in plain text in its XML database file. For a given track, why does it seem difficult for a utility to read the XML data and write equivalent (Serato compatible) data into the MP3 file of the same name? Mixed-In-Key for example knows how to write Serato cue point data into MP3s. Going the other way seems should be equally as easy.
Can anyone enlighten me??
Thx
No, they write it into their own proprietary database. Beatgrid info goes into anaylysis files (or whatever name is used).
It’s not all that hard. But it would take industry-wide cooperation to make it happen in an easy fashion. And while I’d highly applaud the effort, I have to agree with Todd that it’s not going to happen.
@Vintage, maybe Beatgrid info cannot be migrated, but migrated Cue Points would at least reduce 1/2 of the re-work. I have to believe it is entirely possible to migrate Cue Points as evidenced by 3rd Party tool “Mixed in Key 7” which happily writes Cue Points for Serato and Traktor.
I know. My point being that all those things need 3rd party tools to do it. If all DJ software would write the cue points and such in the track tags (would have to work for other formats than MP3 too, can’t force everybody to use MP3 after all), then that info would be available when you load the track in any software (including on CDJs ideally). If you were to change, delete or add a point while playing, the point would be stored with the track and when you then load the track into other software, the amended cue point would be readily available, WITHOUT having to sync or use other methods to transfer information back and forth.
RekordBuddy 2.0 was promising to do this *I think*. Does anybody know what the hold up is?
You’ll agree that RekordBuddy is a 3rd party tool?
RekordBuddy seems like only a dream. 3rd party tool, 4th party conglomerate, whatever it is… seems like wishful thinking.
There must be some sort of legal thing preventing this….
Probably the fear of some big companies that they might be losing control over their customers 😀
Forgetting that protectionism has NEVER worked in any field and that anything open has usually blossomed to give even the ones wanting to keep it closed more profit.
You always have at least one cue point (the main cue point), which can be re-set anywhere you like. Simply play the track, pause it where you want it (or use the jog to adjust the position), then press CUE and it will set the main cue to that location. Learn to DJ and sharpen your skills. Algoriddim teamed up with the most talented DJs to teach you the art of mixing music. Phil, founder of Digital DJ Tips, the biggest DJ training website in the world, has written a best-selling iBook about DJing with djay on iOS.
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