Getting Started
Welcome to A/B TEKNIQ
What the app does and where to start.
Beginner's guide: from your first track to your first mix
A first walk through the app, in order, with where to look for more.
Add your music
Choose the folder with your tracks so they appear in the Library.
The screens at a glance
What each screen is for.
Keyboard shortcuts
The keys that take you around the app.
Library & Sets
The Library screen
Find your way around the track list and the buttons on each row.
How tracks are analysed
What the app measures in each track, and how to start it.
Playlists and Smart Playlists
Keep tracks together by hand, or by a rule.
Sets, the Mix Queue and planning a whole mix
Put tracks in order and let the Director plan every mix between them.
Load a track on a deck
Put a track on Deck A or Deck B to play it.
Mixing
The Performance screen
Mix by hand with two decks and a mixer.
Mixer faces and models
Choose the mixer you like to look at and work with.
Sync and beat matching
Keep two tracks on the same beat.
Automatic gain, trim and the safety limiter
Keep tracks at a similar loudness and prevent clipping.
Echo
Repeat a deck's sound in time with the beat, and let the repeats ring out as you fade it.
Filters and the filter sweep
Turn a deck's filter by hand, also during an automix, and add a gentle filter sweep to a planned mix.
Hot cues and the cue lab
Put hot cues and starting points for loops on a track's phrases, and hear them.
Loops
Repeat part of a track: 1 to 4 beats, 1 to 32 bars, or a whole phrase.
Headphone cue output
Listen to a deck in headphones before you bring it in (Mac).
LIVE DIRECTOR & Transition Lab
The Transition Lab
Plan, hear and fine-tune a mix between two tracks.
What Plan Mix decides
How the LIVE DIRECTOR chooses a mix, in plain words.
Shape the fade curve by hand
Add, remove and drag points on the level curves.
Choose where to mix: drag the arrangements
Line two tracks up differently, in whole phrases.
Rate mixes so the Director learns your taste
Tell the Director what you liked, and it will plan more like it.
AI Assistant
The AI Assistant
Optional helpers that work on your own music, on this device.
Smart Prep: proposed hot cues
Let the assistant suggest hot cues for tracks, then accept or reject each one.
Next Track: what to play next
Ranks tracks that suit the one you are playing.
Set Builder: draft a set
Describe a set, review the draft, save it as a playlist and play it.
Saving & Sharing
Share a mix or a set as audio
Render a planned mix or set to an audio file you can share. (Saving a mix or plan to open again in A/B TEKNIQ is File ▸ Save Mix and Save Set Plan.)
Troubleshooting
I can't hear anything
Quick checks when there is no sound.
The beats do not line up
When two tracks drift or sound out of time.
A track will not analyse
When a track stays under Pending Analysis.
The app feels slow
What to do if the screen is choppy.
Still stuck? What to tell us
The details that help most when something is wrong.