Lexicon Tips Drop - September 2026

Seven practical Lexicon moves for working DJs: live mixing help, faster prep, cleaner libraries, and safe migrations from Rekordbox and Serato.

Written by: Christiaan Maks

Find your next track mid-set with Find mixable tracks

Right click any track and choose Track tools → Find mixable tracks to pull a list of key- and BPM-compatible candidates for whatever is playing. Once you spot the one you want, select it in Lexicon and hit Use as next track to regenerate the list around it, so you can chain compatible picks the whole way through a set. It is a fast way to find a harmonic exit when a request or a read of the room pulls you off your planned order.

Batch your cue points with the Cue Point Generator

Prepping cues one track at a time is the slowest part of library work. Right click a selection and choose Track tools → Generate Cue Points to lay down structured cue maps across many tracks at once. You can build your own templates too, for example a cue 64 beats before the drop, and reuse them so every track in your library is marked up the same way.

Kill duplicates without breaking your playlists

Duplicate files bloat a library and make you second-guess which copy has your good cues. Find Duplicates detects them by audio and by metadata, and when you remove the bad copies it does the important part automatically: in the manual's words, "the bad tracks have been replaced by the good tracks from the duplicates," so every playlist that referenced a removed copy now points at the one you kept. Your set lists stay intact.

Tidy messy artists and genres in one pass

Inconsistent artist and genre spellings are what make search and smartlists unreliable. Artist Cleanup, in the sidebar under Quick Fixes, lets you consolidate variant spellings of the same artist into one name across every matching track in seconds. Genre Cleanup works the same way for genre bloat. Run both before you build rule-based smartlists so your rules actually catch everything.

Rekordbox migrators, get your memory cues back

Rekordbox users lean on memory cues, and it is easy to lose them in a migration. On import, the Cue Destination setting lets you choose Only memory cues, Only hot cues, or Both. When you sync back to Rekordbox, set Cue Destination to Default and Lexicon converts those cues back to memory cues at their original positions, while anything you added in Lexicon lands as hot cues.

Stop Rekordbox from overwriting your beatgrids

The classic migration complaint is Rekordbox re-analyzing tracks and flattening grids you already fixed. Lexicon handles this for you: on sync it changes your Rekordbox analysis settings to only Phrase, so Rekordbox adds phrase data without touching the beatgrids and cues you set in Lexicon. Set your grids once in Lexicon and let them stand.

Scan for broken files, then bake your data into the tags

Before a gig is the wrong time to discover a dead file. Find Broken Tracks scans your whole library and checks that every track exists and every audio file is playable, then reports what needs attention. Once things are clean, right click your tracks and choose Write Tags to write Lexicon's metadata into the files themselves, so your work travels with the tracks across apps and machines.

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