In a bid to help shape future versions of Rekord Buddy, there’s a survey for you to take on the site where you have the chance to win an iPad Mini. Seems that Virtual DJ is missing from the translator game though, unless anyone can tell me otherwise. We’re a little way off that right now, but given that there are Traktor/Serato translators ( Alchimie Zinc is one, and NI’s own is here), it seems like Rekord Buddy should be able to do a 3-way translation soon enough. It could even go as far as bouncing changes in one automatically through all the others. But the increasing number of products like Rekord Buddy shows us that a time will come where there will be one product (that should be called Unity or Conduit or Ultimate DJ Library Translator Pro) that will allow you to repurpose your lovingly crafted library into another format at the press of a button.
It’s not like the Traktor Library offers anything radical over the Rekordbox, Serato, VDJ or any other library for that matter. Ultimately, they all provide the same end result, deployed in more or less the same way.
I understand why different software companies use their own libraries, but it’s not good for the end user. 6 different software libraries - 6 different and hostile formats. Well right now it is anyway - most things are just a matter of time. You’ll still have to generate waveforms internally of course, as that kind of thing is beyond the scope of data translation.
You can choose tracks, playlists or whole libraries, and also decide exactly what metadata to shift across as well, including beat grids. This doesn’t appear to be some half -arsed conversion either. But what Rekord Buddy promises is a smooth 2-way conversion between Traktor and Rekordbox.
Trying not going to re-rant over old ground again, but my core issue is that unless you use the basic library tools afforded to you by Apple’s iTunes, you have to commit wholeheartedly to a particular piece of software with little in the way of translation, other than the handful of 3rd party library wranglers. My displeasure with the plethora of library formats is well known, but it seems that Next Audio Lab’s Rekord Buddy may well smash down at least one wall - the one between Traktor and Rekordbox - with some style, provided you’re on a Mac.
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