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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 waveform view showing beatgrid and section markers on a track

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.

01

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.

02

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.

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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.

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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.

05

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.

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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.

See how it works
Downbeat-locked beatgrid analysis runs automatically on import, no manual editing queue needed
3-band RGB waveform with section markers (intro, buildup, drop, breakdown, outro) gives you visual confidence the grid is correct
Exports playlists, cue points and star ratings into Rekordbox's master.db via SQLCipher; the beatgrid stays Rekordbox's own
BPM detection and key detection run in the same pass, so your whole library is prepped at once

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Frequently asked questions

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No. Vibes never writes a beatgrid into Rekordbox. It runs downbeat-locked analysis on import and uses the result for its own views, so during prep you can see which tracks read at half or double tempo and which drift. Rekordbox keeps the grid it analyzed, and you correct the flagged tracks in its GRID panel. When the tempo is in doubt and you want a second opinion that owes nothing to Rekordbox's analysis, tap it out and compare the two numbers.
No. A Vibes export carries playlists, cue points and star ratings into master.db and leaves the beatgrid alone. A grid you corrected by hand in the GRID panel stays exactly as you left it, and Analysis Lock keeps a later Rekordbox re-analysis off it too.
Vibes does not have a beatgrid editor, and it does not need one: the grid Rekordbox plays from is always Rekordbox's own. Vibes analyzes beat positions to drive its analysis, Set Designer and Find Compatible, and shows you where a track's tempo looks unreliable. The fix happens in Rekordbox's GRID panel: the same GRID panel and the same controls you would use on a track Rekordbox analyzed itself.
Load the track into the player in EXPORT mode, click GRID in the function panel to open the GRID panel, then park the playhead on a clear downbeat and set it as the first beat of the bar. If the lines still sit slightly off the kicks, nudge the whole grid left or right in 1 ms steps with the shift buttons. Turn on Analysis Lock when it lines up so a later re-analysis does not overwrite your work. Everything happens one track at a time.
Open the GRID panel and look at the BPM box. If the number is close but slightly off, type the correct value or click TAP in time with the track while it plays. If it is exactly half or double the real tempo, use the halve or double button instead, so the grid stays aligned rather than shifting. Then turn on Analysis Lock so a later analysis pass does not undo the correction, and check the BPM in the track list to confirm the new value stuck.
There are two different things people mean. To change the stored BPM that drives Beat Sync, the grid, and the BPM shown in the track list, type a new value into the BPM box in the GRID panel and turn on Analysis Lock. To change how fast a song plays during a set, use the tempo control on the deck in PERFORMANCE mode instead; that changes playback speed, not the analyzed BPM. Editing the BPM box does not alter the audio file itself.
Load the track, open the GRID panel, and click the double button next to the BPM value. Rekordbox doubles the stored BPM and halves the distance between grid lines, so every beat gets a line instead of every other beat. The halve button does the opposite for tracks read at double speed. Half-time results are common with drum and bass and footwork, so if many tracks in one genre come back halved, set Track Analysis Mode to Normal with a BPM Range that covers those tempos and re-analyze them.

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The import worked perfectly. Have created several sets now and my life is so much easier
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