Edit beatgrids in Rekordbox.
To adjust the beat grid in Rekordbox, load the track in EXPORT mode, click GRID in the function panel, and use the GRID panel's controls to set the first beat, nudge the grid, or correct the BPM. The same panel is where you fix a wrong BPM and double or halve a tempo that was detected at the wrong speed, one track at a time. Vibes runs its own downbeat-locked analysis across the whole library, so you open the editor with a short list instead of a blind trawl.
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Vibes analyzes beat positions and section markers during import, so tempo outliers show up before you open Rekordbox.
Edit beatgrids in Rekordbox, step by step.
Rekordbox gives you precise manual controls to fix a beatgrid or a BPM that was analyzed incorrectly. Everything happens in the GRID panel, one track at a time.
Load the track and open the GRID panel
Switch Rekordbox to EXPORT mode and choose the 1 PLAYER layout. If the track has never been analyzed, right-click it in the Collection and choose Analyze Track. Drag the track from the track list onto the player, pause playback, then click GRID in the function panel. The GRID panel opens with the first-beat, shift, and BPM controls. In PERFORMANCE mode the same tools live in the GRID EDIT panel.
Find where the grid drifts
Play the track or scrub through it to find where the grid falls out of step with the audio. Beatgrid errors usually show up as grid lines gradually pulling ahead of or behind the kick transients in the waveform. A grid that is off from the very first beat points to a wrong first-beat marker; one that starts fine and drifts later points to a wrong BPM.
Set the first beat and shift the grid
Move the playhead to a clear downbeat, usually the first kick, and click the first-beat button so that position becomes the first beat of the bar. If the lines still sit slightly ahead of or behind the kicks, shift the whole grid left or right in 1 ms steps until they line up. Zoom into the waveform to check. A grid that looks fine at full width can still be a few milliseconds off.
Fix the BPM
If the number in the BPM box is wrong, type the correct value or click TAP in time with the track while it plays. A track read at half or double speed needs the panel's halve or double button rather than a typed value, since that keeps the grid aligned while the number changes. If a whole genre comes back halved, open Preferences, Analysis, Track Analysis, set Track Analysis Mode to Normal with a BPM Range that covers those tempos, and re-analyze them. Every control in the GRID panel acts on the grid as a whole: changes apply to the whole track or from the current position forward.
Lock the grid and confirm
Once the grid lines align cleanly with the kick transients, click the Analysis Lock button in the GRID panel so a later analysis pass does not overwrite your edits. Then scrub to the end of the track and check the lines still sit on the kicks, because a small BPM error only becomes visible late. Beat Sync and quantized cues and loops use the corrected grid from now on.
The catch
Rekordbox beatgrid editing is one track at a time, so correcting a large library manually is time-consuming. The BPM box also only changes the stored value and the grid spacing; it never changes how fast the track plays.
The faster way
Vibes analyzes beatgrids for your whole library, not just one track.
When you import your library into Vibes, it runs downbeat-locked analysis on every track and shows the BPM and beat positions it found. Vibes never writes a grid into Rekordbox. It tells you which tracks are worth opening the editor for.
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