How to do a let it play out
Let A finish, then start B clean.
- Essential
- easy
- About 4 bars
When to use it
- Use it when you're bringing the energy down.
- A natural fit for pop/open-format and melodic/trance.
- A strong choice when you're switching genres.
- Works at any tempo gap, and it's the go-to move when the songs are more than 8% apart, because there's no beatmatched overlap.
- Great for closing a set or emotional moments.
Step by step
- 1Let A play all the way to its natural ending.
- 2Have B cued at its first note, fader up.
- 3Leave a breath of silence (half a second), then press play.
See it on a controller, and hear it with your own songs
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