As I hinted in an earlier blog post, I had a great time taking the designs beautifully drawn up for us in Photoshop by our designers and mapping them into XAML. Mixed In Key 5.0 includes a clickable Camelot Wheel to instantly search the database for songs in a particular key. For his next song he should pick one in a key which is an “hour” to the left or right, or stay at the same hour but switch between major or minor keys. To build a harmonic mix, a DJ finds the key of his first song on the wheel (so E Major is at the twelve o’clock position). This shows the relationship between each key in a diagram arranged like a clock. The other ingredient comes from music theory, and has been cleverly codified by Mark Davis into the Camelot Wheel. Every song is then added to a searchable database. It analyses every song in a DJ’s collection and determines which key it is written in (by key, I mean musical key, like C#, F#, A Minor, etc.). Mixed In Key supplies the key ingredient to successful harmonic mixing. Mixed In Key 5.0 is for DJs who put together their DJ sets using harmonic mixing, a technique for ensuring a musically pleasing transition from one track to the next by eliminating key clashes. Make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube for all our Traktor tutorials.I’m very pleased to announce that Mixed In Key LLC, one of my clients, have just launched the product I’ve been working on for the last eight months. In time, this becomes just as easy as mixing with keylock on, and is very useful for more dramatic tempo transitions. This technique will come easily to DJs with experience playing on real vinyl, as they have no access to keylock or a similar feature when working with vinyl. I also demonstrate an advanced technique in which we disengage the key lock in order to mix two tracks in key via re-pitching one into a compatible key. I also provide counterexamples of key clashes and things to avoid. In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to mix in key to the exact same key, clockwise and counterclockwise on the camelot wheel / circle of fourths, and to the relative major or minor key (between the inside and outside of the circle/wheel), all while phrase matching. After a little practice, the wheel is easily memorized, even if you memorize all of the musical keys and not just the number system, and mixing in key becomes second-nature. ![]() The Camelot Wheel, or circle of fourths, can be referred to in order to look up which keys are compatible – this makes it quick and easy to mix in key. Previously, DJs had to use their ears, a musical keyboard, or a separate key detection software like Mixed In Key. Traktor now also includes its own key detection algorithm, and can even color-code these keys to the Camelot Wheel, a version of the circle of fourths (or fifths) available on. Traktor really has us covered on the first part, as the keylock feature keeps our tracks in key when we pitch them around in order to beatmach or sync them to other tracks. In order to mix in key, you really need to pieces of information: (1) The keys of all of your tracks, and (2) which keys are compatible with which other keys. This tutorial covers using Traktor’s new key detection algorithm and keylock feature in order to mix in key. In this tutorial, we look at using Traktor’s new key detection algorithm and keylock feature in order to mix in key.
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