Beatgrid

After loading a track into the music player, you can edit the beatgrid by clicking the Edit Grid button on the right side of the music player.

If you find that your BPM is doubled or half of what it should be, you can use the buttons to half/double the BPM.

Grid controls

Hover over a button in the Edit Grid panel to see what it does. You can:

• Move the beatgrid marker to the play head position (the arrow down button)
• Move the beatgrid to the left or right
• Increase or decrease the BPM, or halve or double it
• Tap to set the BPM (TAP)
• Toggle the metronome to check the grid while playing

Tracks with tempo changes

A beatgrid can have several beatgrid markers, for tracks where the tempo changes. Each marker has its own BPM from that point on.

• To add a marker, move the play head to where the tempo changes and click Add new beatgrid marker at this position.
• The BPM buttons, halve/double and move buttons change the current beatgrid marker: the marker at or before the play head.
• Hold SHIFT while clicking the halve or double button to change all markers at once.
• Move current beatgrid marker to this position moves the current marker to the play head. Hold SHIFT while clicking it to line up the whole beatgrid with the play head instead, keeping every BPM as it is.
• Use Jump to the next beatgrid marker to go through the markers, and Delete current beatgrid marker to remove one you don't need.

Fluid beatgrids

A fluid beatgrid has a BPM marker on every beat, so it follows tempo changes and drifting tempo exactly. You get one by analyzing with the Fluid or Auto Beatgrid Type, see Analyzer, or by importing one from djay Pro or VirtualDJ.

When a track has a fluid beatgrid, the Edit Grid panel shows a green Fluid label instead of the number of markers. On the waveforms, the places where the tempo changes are marked: the overview waveform shows a marker and the zoom waveform shows the new BPM.

On a fluid beatgrid some buttons work the other way around:

• The halve and double buttons change all markers. Hold SHIFT while clicking to change only the current marker and everything after it. That fixes a track whose second part was detected at double or half its tempo: put the play head where that part starts and shift-click halve or double. Halving keeps a marker on every beat of the new tempo, so every second marker is removed.
• The arrow down button moves the nearest marker to the play head. Hold SHIFT while clicking it to line up the whole beatgrid with the play head.

The tooltip of each button tells you what it does on the track you have loaded.

To start over with a fresh beatgrid, analyze the track again with BPM & Beatgrid checked and Do not overwrite anything unchecked. See Analyzer.

Analysis

If a track does not yet have a beatgrid, Lexicon will analyze the track and create one automatically. It uses the Beatgrid Type you last picked in the Analyze popup.

You can also right click tracks and choose Analyze to analyze many tracks at the same time. See Analyzer

Quantize

When Quantize is enabled, moving the beatgrid will move cue points with them if they were already synced to the beatgrid. Cue points that are not exactly on the beatgrid will not be changed.