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When Cueflow disagrees with Rekordbox or with your file’s tags, it asks you a question. You listen to both versions and choose.
One question per track
- The question What Cueflow is unsure about, as one question.
- Both versions On the left, the current value (Rekordbox or your file). On the right, Cueflow’s suggestion. Listen plays 8 bars with the metronome click on that side’s beat.
- Confirm Saves your choice and moves to the next track.
- Precise mode When neither side is right, set the track yourself (see below).
- Click Listen under each side. The right side is the one where the click lands on the kicks.
- Click Choose under the right side. The suggestion is chosen at first.
- Click Confirm and continue.
The possible questions
- Does the track really start here? Bar 1 seems one to three beats off.
- Is it rather slow or rather fast? The tempo read elsewhere is half or double Cueflow’s.
- The tempo moves a little. Shall we follow it? A live-played or older track whose tempo varies.
- Does the grid land right on the kicks? The grid is a few milliseconds early or late.
- Which key sounds right? The key in your tags or in Rekordbox differs from the analysis.
Precise mode
Open in precise mode shows the track bar by bar. There you set the grid, the tempo, the key and the cues yourself.
- Checkpoints Five checkpoints, from start to end. Each compares the grid with the kicks and says whether it is on the beat, or by how many milliseconds it is off. Click a point to zoom on it.
- The zoom Four bars up close. The light bars are the kicks: the grid (green lines) must land right on them. Loop 4 bars and Metronome click help you hear it.
- Bar 1 Moves the start of bar 1 by 10 ms or one beat, or click Snap to the nearest kick.
- The tempo Adjust the tempo to the hundredth, halve or double it, or tap it (at least 4 times). Follow a moving tempo is for tracks whose tempo varies.
- The key The key read, and the other possible reading (often the relative). Use this one replaces it, Hear the note helps you decide.
- The draft The grid, the tempo and the key stay a draft until Save. Back to the suggestion drops the draft.
Cues
Under the zoom, the track’s list of cues. Changes to cues are saved at once, without Save.
- The cues Add a cue places one where the zoom is. Snap to 16-bar phrases moves the cues onto the phrases. Click a cue to rename it, move it one bar earlier or later, make it a memory cue or a hot cue, or delete it. 8 hot cues at most.
- Choosing Cueflow’s suggestion makes it your value: it goes to Rekordbox at the next send, in place of the old one.
- Choosing As it is now keeps your value. The question only comes back if the compared values change.
- Your files and Rekordbox are never changed directly. Every choice can be undone from the History.
- Precise mode shortcuts: Space play, ← → 10 ms, Shift + arrows one beat, C a cue, L the loop.