Rekordbox 7 Export mode – tutorial with pictures

Dexxter Clark
5 minutes read

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What is the Rekordbox Export mode?

The Rekordbox Export mode is focussed on music library management and exporting your tracks to a USB drive.
You can use this library across all other Rekordbox modes.

What can you do with the Rekordbox Export mode and what do I mean with library management?

There is also a Performance mode in Rekordbox, with which you can play your DJ gig.
See my article on the differences between Performance and Export mode and
my Performance mode tutorial for more information.

Layout

  1. Toolbar 1
  2. Player controls
  3. Track overview
  4. Beatgrid
  5. Memory cue list / Hot cue list / Track info
  6. Toolbar 2: for beatgrid
  7. Toolbar 3: for library
  8. Playlists / Sources
  9. Tracks
  10. Toolbar 4: miscellaneous

Toolbar 1

  1. Mode selector: Export, Performance, Lighting, Edit mode
  2. Player mode: 1 player, 2 player, dual player, simple player, full browser
  3. Open/close record panel in the middle of the screen
  4. Open information window
  5. Open license window
  6. Open settings screen
  7. Volume control
  8. VU loudness meter
  9. CPU meter
  10. Current time

Player controls

  1. Previous track in track list
  2. Next track in track list
  3. Beat jump backward – skip ahead on 1 beat
  4. Beat jump forward – reverse 1 beat
  5. Amount of beats to jump when clicking on button 3 or 4 (fine, 4 beats, 8 beats, 16 beats, 8 bars, 16 bars, 32 bars)
  6. Cue button (tutorial)
  7. Play / pause

Track overview

  1. Album art
  2. Track title
  3. Hot Cue (green “A”)
  4. Cue point (orange triangle)
  5. Waveform
  6. Elapsed indicator (useful when it is hard to see the playhead)
  7. Play head (vertical line)
  8. Artist
  9. Remaining time
  10. Elapsed time
  11. Key
  12. BPM

Beatgrid

  1. Zoom in/out (not showing: see tutorial)
  2. Waveform
  3. Remaining beats till cue point
  4. Play head (vertical line)
  5. First beat of a bar (line with red triangle)

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Memory and Hot Cue list

  1. Hot Cue letter: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H (hot cue + cue point tutorial)
  2. Time in track of Hot Cue
  3. Name of Hot Cue
  4. Remove Hot Cue
  5. Show list of Memory Cues (aka Cue Points) (hot cue + cue point tutorial)
  6. Show list of Hot Cues
  7. Show track information

Toolbar 2: beatgrid

  1. Toolbar selector: CUE/LOOP or GRID
  2. Hot Cue buttons A – H.
    • Click on button to jump to that part in the track (if set)
    • Click on button to set Hot Cue (if not set)
  3. Set a memory cue (aka cue point)
  4. Go to previous memory cue
  5. Go to next memory cue
  6. Remove memory cue
  7. AU: automatic loop selector – blue = enabled
    selects a loop of amount X beats (shown at #10, in this case: 4 beats)
  8. MA: manual loop selector – blue = enabled
    shows panel with following options:
    • In: start loop at position of play head
    • Out: end loop at position of play head
    • Exit: cancel loop
  9. Shorten the automatic loop (#7) by half
  10. How many beats are automatically selected (#7)
  11. Lengthen the automatic loop (#7) by double
  12. Switch Quantize on/off – blue is enabled
    When setting Cue (with Cue button in Player Controls), Cue Points, Hot Cues and Loops, the play head is set to the nearest beat.
    This makes setting cues, cue points, hot cues and loops on beat much easier.
  13. Show extra menu

Toolbar 3: library

Playlist palette bar

  1. Show/hide shortcuts on the left of the screen
  2. Show/hide sub-browser in horizontal mode
  3. Show/hide Tags (basically a todo list for tracks to play)
  4. Playlist Palette: 3 pages of slots for playlist shortcuts
  5. Show/hide contents of playlist shortcuts

The playlist palette bar is a way to add shortcuts to your playlists.
These shortcuts are shown in the middle of the screen.
You can drag-and-drop playlists into these slots to establish the shortcut.
There are 3 “pages” of slots with 4 slots each.
You can switch between these “pages” by clicking on the pages (#4 in the screenshot above)

If the palette bar is not showing, enable the palette bar on the right side of the screen:

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Playlists / sources (left side)

  1. Collection – all tracks that were imported into Rekordbox
  2. Playlists – user created groups of tracks (playlist tutorial)
  3. Related tracks – tracks that have similarities like BPM, key, same genre, same artist, recorded matches (related tracks tutorial)
  4. Track suggestions – Rekordbox uses Artifical Intelligence to find tracks that sound somewhat similar to the current track
  5. iTunes – use tracks from iTunes in Rekordbox
  6. Beatport streaming – stream tracks directly from Beatport (you need subscription)
  7. Browse computer – browse through files and folders on your computer to find music
  8. Connected USB drives
  9. History – tracks you’ve played in the past via the Performance mode or imported via USB drive used in AlphaTheta equipment
  10. Show/hide record panel – record things you do in Export mode.
    Not sure why you would want to do that in Export mode instead of Performance mode.
  11. Show mobile sync dialog – to sync tracks with your table or phone
  12. Sync manager – to sync tracks with a USB drive to use in AlphaTheta equipment

Tracks

  1. Table header – right-click on any column to add or remove columns from the table
  2. Sorted column – arrow up = ascending, arrow down = descending
  3. Enable/disable traffic light feature (see #9)
  4. Selects source traffic light feature (see #9) – either Player A, Player B or Master (=track currently playing)2
  5. 2 buttons for either small rows or large rows
  6. Filter: genre, artist, album
  7. Filter: BPM, key, rating, color, genre, components, situation
  8. Search bar
  9. Traffic light feature: colors cells green when key is compatible with track
  10. Table with all the tracks

Toolbar 4: miscellaneous (right side)

  1. Show/hide My Tags panel (My Tags tutorial)
  2. Related tracks/ matching tracks (tracks match tutorial, related tracks tutorial)
  3. Collection radar – A.I. gives suggestions about tracks that might sound similar
  4. Track information – edit information of a track
  5. Show hide sub-brower in vertical mode

Is Rekordbox Export mode free?

The basic features in the Export Mode in Rekordbox are completely free.
Everything you need to manage your library and export tracks to USB is free.
But some really minor features are only available with a payed license.

In the screenshot above you can see some the locks in front of some options, these are payed features.

Free are for example:

  • Creating and editing playlists
  • Setting and editing Cue Points
  • Editing beatgrid and set tempo
  • Export music/playlists to USB

Payed are for example:

  • Viewing collection by date music added – you can circumvent this by making smart playlists based on date-added
  • Viewing collection by genre – you can make smart playlists for this
  • Viewing collection by artist – you can make smart playlists for this
  • Viewing collection by album – you can make smart playlists for this
  • Automatic cue analysis – you have to do it by hand
  • Vocal stem separation
  • Dual player view – 2 tracks are “glued” together. So “play” plays both tracks, “pause” pauses both tracks
  • Collaborative playlist – make a playlist with another DJ
  • Column view – navigate your collection in the same way as on the CDJs

No sound in Export mode

When you get no sound in the Export mode, you probably selected the wrong sound card (or none at all).

  1. Go to settings
  2. In settings screen: go to: “Audio”-section
  3. Go to tab “Configuration”
  4. Select another sound card
  5. Wait, it can take a couple of seconds to switch
  6. Exit the dialog
  7. Play your song (it can take a few seconds before the new settings are kicking in)

Be aware that there are different audio settings for the Export mode and the Performance mode.
So changing the setting for the Export mode, does not change them for the Performance mode and vice versa.

Where to start?

My step-by-step beginners guide will help:

How to use Rekordbox 7: step-by-step beginners guide
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