Mixable Tracks
You can find Mixable Tracks by right clicking tracks ➡ Track tools ➡ Find mixable tracks
The Mixable Tracks feature is the successor of Similar Tracks in Rekordcloud. With this feature you can choose any track and Lexicon will give you a list of tracks that are mixable with the chosen track, with the best matches first. The better organized your library, the more powerful this feature will become.
Mixable Tracks is now part of Ghost Curator. The results are shown on the Ghost Curator page, and Ghost Curator can also follow the decks of your DJ app and suggest the next track while you play. This page explains how to start from a track and what the mix rules do. See Ghost Curator for following your DJ app, the deck bar and the overlay.
Mixable Tracks always searches your entire library. It can't be limited to one playlist, but you can narrow the results down with the mix rules below, for example with a custom tag.
Mixable Tracks is available on the Essential and Ultimate plans. Following your DJ app and the overlay need the Ultimate plan.
Usage
Right click any track and choose Track tools ➡ Find mixable tracks. Lexicon opens the Ghost Curator page straight away with the tracks that mix with the chosen track, using the mix rules you used last. If a DJ app is running, Lexicon asks whether you want to follow its decks.
Every result gets a Score from 0 to 100 that tells you how well it mixes with the chosen track. Hover over a score to see how it was built up.
The quick rules at the top of the page change the results right away. Click All mix rules (or press Tab) to open the mix rules dialog with all options. Click Load in the dialog to apply your rules.
The real power comes when you start using the mix rules where you can choose exactly what the resulting tracks should look like.
Saving the results
Click Save as playlist to save all results to a new playlist. To add only some results to a playlist, select them and drag them onto that playlist.
Next track
Mixable Tracks can be used during a performance. Once you find the track you want to mix, play it on your favorite DJ app while also selecting it in Lexicon. Click the Use as next track button (or press CTRL/CMD+Enter) to generate a new list based on that track. Keep doing that while you're mixing and Lexicon stays with you.
With a supported DJ app, Ghost Curator can do this for you by following your decks, see Ghost Curator.
Organization
This feature becomes much more powerful with a well organized library. Adding proper tags, ratings, colors, genres or danceability will help tremendously here.
For best results, try to create a good organizational system. For example, you might use rating to indicate how mellow or aggressive a track is. This way, you can use the rating mix rule and only get a certain type of track. The same goes for other mix rules, like color, genre, danceability, energy and popularity. For most control, you can consider using custom tags to define every aspect of a track.
Options
By default, the mix rules dialog only shows the basic options that should work for most libraries since BPM and Key is usually known.
When you enable Show advanced options, you will get far more choice.
The mix rules decide which tracks are allowed in the results at all. The score decides their order, unless you choose another Sort by.
| Option | Explanation |
|---|---|
| BPM range | The allowed BPM difference, as a percentage or a number of BPM |
| Energy direction | Energy up only allows tracks with a higher energy than the input track, Energy down only a lower energy and Same energy only the same energy. Any energy switches this rule off |
| Key matching | Harmonic allows the same key, the relative key and one step on the wheel. Fuzzy also allows one step with a mode change. Off ignores the key when filtering, but it still counts in the score |
| Match color | Match the current color exactly |
| Recently added | When the track was added to Lexicon |
| Must have cue points | Only consider tracks that have cue points |
| Include half/double BPM | Include tracks that are half or double the input track BPM |
| Genre(s) | Only consider tracks with one of these genres |
| Year | Only consider tracks that match the input track year or fall within the given range |
| Energy | Only consider tracks that match the input track energy by one difference or fall within the given range |
| Popularity | Only consider tracks that match the input track popularity by one difference or fall within the given range |
| Rating | Only consider tracks that match the input track rating by one difference or fall within the given range |
| Danceability | Only consider tracks that match the input track danceability by one difference or fall within the given range |
| Happiness | Only consider tracks that match the input track happiness by one difference or fall within the given range |
| Must have custom tag | Only consider tracks that have these custom tags. With AND (the default) a track needs all of them, with OR one of them is enough |
| Must not have custom tag | Tracks with any of these custom tags will not be considered |
| Sort by | The order of the results. Best match puts the tracks that mix best with the input track first. You can also sort by plays, BPM, rating, energy, danceability, popularity, happiness, last played or date added: the highest value (or the most recent date) comes first, and tracks without a value go last. The sorting is done before the result limit |
| Result limit | The maximum number of results |
Templates
You can save your settings to a template so you can re-use it later.