Tutorials

Learn it one mix at a time

Short, practical walkthroughs for the things DJs do most.

Go from a handful of tracks to a finished, exportable mix.

Press + Add tracks (or drag audio files onto the window) and pick four or five tracks that are close in tempo and key.
Wait for each track to show its tempo and key. The header says neural stems (100%) when the stems are ready.
Press Auto-plan. Mixdis picks the mix points and blend styles and ducks the stems that clash.
Press Space and listen. Click a blend on the timeline to see its fades and open the Transition tab.
Happy? Set ▾ → Export set…, pick a format and a place to save it.

Sets with a steady tempo plan best. Tracks that change tempo mid-song are better mixed from their steadier sections.

A track that wanders off its grid ruins a blend. Pin it back with markers.

Select the track and look at the zoomed waveform at the bottom. Scroll to a place where the grid lines no longer sit on the kicks.
Double-click the beat line you want to fix: an amber marker appears.
Drag the marker until the line sits on the kick. The grid stretches between this marker and its neighbours, and only shifts outside them.
Add a second marker further along and correct it too. Right-click a marker to remove it.

Use Shift while dragging for fine adjustment, and the −5/−1/+1/+5 buttons for whole-grid slips.

The classic: close a low-pass over the outgoing track as the next one arrives.

Select the outgoing track and press + Filter at the start of its final section.
Stretch the effect over the blend by dragging its right edge; it snaps to bars.
Set From to open and To to a heavy low-pass.
Play across the blend. Pull To back towards the middle for a gentler close.

Build tension with swept noise, then cut it right on the drop.

Place the playhead eight bars before the drop and press + Noise.
Stretch the effect to end exactly on the drop. The default sweeps dark to bright and builds in.
For a rise-and-fall, tick Sweep up / down and set where the peak sits.
Add a + Roll for the last bar to tighten it.

Let a vocal trail off while the next track's drums take over.

Select the outgoing track and press + Echo on its last vocal phrase.
In the effect row choose Vocals from the target menu so only that stem is echoed.
Set Time to ¾ beat for a dotted echo and shape it to Release so it fades across the region.
The echo rings out after the region, and after the track itself ends.

Stop the track dead, or spin it back into the drop.

Press + Brake or + Backspin where you want it to start.
Use Speed: left is a fast, short effect; right is slow and long. The region's length is the effect's length.
For a backspin into a drop, end the region on the drop's downbeat so the track comes back in on time.

Chop a couple of songs up and rebuild them as something new.

Add the tracks you want to play with in the set builder, then press Mashup in the toolbar. They appear in the panel on the left; each shows a progress bar while its full-quality stems are separated, and its buttons unlock when they are ready.
Press All beside the first track's whole song to drop its four stems on four lanes. The project tempo is taken from this track.
Press Space to listen. Click the ruler to jump, or drag along it to scrub.
Drop just the V (vocals) of a second track onto a new lane, over the first track's drums. It is stretched to the project tempo for you.
Put the playhead where you want a cut and press S (or Shift+S to cut every lane). Drag the pieces to rearrange them and drag an edge to trim.
Set Key to a Match… option to bring every track into one key, or use Key ±st on a single clip.
Mashup ▾ → Export mashup… and pick a format.

Hold Alt while dragging to place freely, or set Snap to Beat or Off. Ctrl + drag moves one clip out of its group.

Put an effect on a section of a song and keep it there as you rearrange.

Click a clip, then press an effect in the left panel — for example + Filter. It lands on that clip, marked with a chain.
Drag the effect's bar to move it and its edges to stretch it; the settings for the selected effect are in the panel below, which you can enlarge by dragging its top edge.
Now move or cut the clip. The effect goes with it, and an effect that straddles a cut is split between the two pieces.
Drag an effect onto another lane: a preview shows where it will land and whether it will follow a clip there or sit free on the lane.
Right-click an effect to duplicate it, detach it from its clip or delete it.

Short screen recordings of each of these are on the way. Until then the steps above follow the app exactly.

Most problems are one setting away.

Grids that stay in time? BeatDis. Visuals for the room? Trippin is free.