CuePoint and Mixed In Key
Both can give your tracks a key you can mix by. Every statement about Mixed In Key below comes from its own public pages, with the date we read it. What CuePoint does comes from its user guide.
Side by side
| Topic | Mixed In Key | CuePoint |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Mixed In Key's home page describes Mixed In Key as: “Discover the key and BPM of any track to create harmonically perfect DJ sets.” Source: Mixed In Key's home page, read on . | CuePoint matches your tracks to Beatport and fills in what is missing or wrong, then sends it back to Rekordbox. |
| Where the key comes from | Mixed In Key 11 says to “Analyze your music collection”. It calls its key detection “the world's most precise key-detection technology.” Source: Mixed In Key 11's page, read on . | CuePoint does not work out a key from the audio. A track's key is the one you typed, or the key of its accepted Beatport match. A track Beatport does not have has no key until you give it one. |
| Energy | Mixed In Key's home page says its Energy Level ratings “show you how danceable each track is.” Source: Mixed In Key's home page, read on . | CuePoint has no energy rating. |
| Cue points | Mixed In Key 11 says it “will give you up to 8 automatic Cue Points per track.” Source: Mixed In Key 11's page, read on . | CuePoint does not create cue points. It keeps the ones Rekordbox has. |
| How its results get into Rekordbox | Mixed In Key's Rekordbox page says to analyze your files in Mixed In Key, add them to Rekordbox, then reload their tags, and that Key and Energy results are updated. Source: Mixed In Key's Rekordbox page, read on . | CuePoint writes a new Rekordbox XML file for you to open in Rekordbox, with your cues and beat grids kept. It can also write tags into your files, after a preview. Rekordbox shows those after you choose Reload Tag. |
| Cue points in Rekordbox | Mixed In Key's guide says cue points are not part of reloading tags: “Cue Points require the Rekordbox XML import workflow.” Source: Mixed In Key's guide to using it with Rekordbox, read on . | CuePoint's export is a patched copy of the XML you imported, so the cues and beat grids Rekordbox wrote are carried over exactly as they were. |
| Where the results show in Rekordbox | By default Mixed In Key's key results go to Rekordbox's Key column and its Comments column. You can change this in its Update Tags settings. Source: Mixed In Key's Rekordbox page, read on . | CuePoint's export writes the key into the key field of the new XML file, in the notation you choose. |
| Camelot notation | Mixed In Key's home page lists a Camelot Wheel for harmonic mixing. Source: Mixed In Key's home page, read on . | CuePoint shows a track's key in Camelot notation, such as 8A, and says “No Beatport key” when a track has none. Rekordbox's own key is shown as not used. |
| Price | Mixed In Key 11 is sold as a one-time purchase. The pages we read show no amount; its shop has the price. Source: Mixed In Key 11's page, read on . | CuePoint is free. |
Which one fits
Choose Mixed In Key if
If your tracks are not on Beatport, or you want a key worked out from the sound itself, plus energy ratings and automatic cue points, Mixed In Key does that and CuePoint does not.
Choose CuePoint if
If your tracks are on Beatport and you want Beatport's key, tempo, genre, label and year checked against Rekordbox with every match reviewable, CuePoint does that for free. The two do not conflict, so you can use both.
What CuePoint does not do
- It does not work out a key from the audio. It cannot key a track Beatport does not have.
- It does not rate a track's energy.
- It does not create cue points.
- It has no tools for making music or mashups.
What we say about Mixed In Key comes from Mixed In Key's own public pages on the dates shown, and tools change. See what CuePoint's Clean page does or the other comparisons.