FAQ

A Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 13 or later, or a PC with Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). Your music as files (MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, M4A…). Streaming services can't be used.

GlideMix isn't signed by Apple yet. Open it once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. You only do this once.

Click More info → Run anyway. The warning appears because the installer isn't code-signed yet.

Add your music folders in Preferences → Music library: GlideMix scans them, analyses the songs (tempo, beat grid, key, phrases, energy) and keeps watching them, so new songs appear by themselves. If you use rekordbox or Lexicon, their library shows up in the sidebar too, with their beat grids, keys, cue points and playlists. GlideMix only reads them; it never changes their databases.

Analyse your whole library there first (rekordbox: BPM/Grid, KEY and Phrase on), then open it in GlideMix: Lexicon shows up by itself, rekordbox via File → Export Collection in xml format. GlideMix uses their beat grids, keys, cues and phrases as they are, so those songs need no analysis and are ready at once; GlideMix only analyses songs they don't know.

In rekordbox: File → Export Collection in xml format. In GlideMix, click Rekordbox XML in the sidebar and choose the file. It loads with a progress bar and then shows like Lexicon: the song count, and the playlists and folders underneath. Nothing is copied; to copy the songs into your own collection, use Copy Rekordbox XML into Music Collection….

1. Double-click a song in the library: it goes onto the timeline.
2. Double-click the next song: it lands after the first, beatmatched, with its IN on the first song's OUT.
3. Move a song to change where the blend starts; drag the IN/OUT markers to change how long it lasts.
4. Press play, or Perform to play it to the audience while you preview on headphones.
5. When you're happy: File → Export audio.

The Manual explains every step.

None in features. The demo says "Glide Mix demo" every 2 minutes and exports MP3 at 96 kbps, up to 20 minutes. A licence removes all of that for good.

In the order email from Polar: open Access purchase and copy the key (it starts with GLIDEMIXPRO-). Then in GlideMix: Help → Licence…, paste it, and click Activate.

Three, Mac and Windows mixed. Getting a new computer? Remove an old one from the customer portal (the Access purchase link), then activate on the new one.

Yes. The same key works on both, on up to three computers in total.

Only once, to activate the key. After that GlideMix works offline.

GlideMix is in Beta. If you buy during the Beta you pay €49 and keep everything, including all 1.x updates. After the Beta the price is €89.

Please try the free demo first: it has every feature. If something is wrong with your purchase, write to [email protected] and we'll sort it out.

GlideMix checks for new versions by itself and shows what's new. You can also use Help → Check for update. On the Mac the update installs with one click; on Windows the new installer runs and reopens GlideMix.

Every 1.x update is free with your licence.

Yes. GlideMix reads both libraries (read-only) and takes their beat grids, keys, cues and playlists. It can also export a rekordbox XML (right-click Music Collection) for rekordbox and Lexicon to import, with hot cues where each song's phrases start, ready for CDJs.

Yes: VST® 3 on Mac and Windows, Audio Unit on Mac. Put them on a song, a stem or the whole mix, and automate any knob.

VST® is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.

First install the stems engine once in Preferences → Stems (free, about 1 GB). Then open the track's menu (⋯ next to the track name, or right-click the track header) → Separate stems. GlideMix splits it into drums, bass, vocals and other, on your own computer.

Every song gets an energy rating from 1 (calm) to 10 (peak time), like Mixed In Key and Lexicon. Lexicon songs keep Lexicon's own rating. Press ENERGY in the toolbar to see the energy of the whole mix behind the tempo line.

A song needs an energy rating and a loudness curve. Songs analysed by GlideMix have both; Lexicon songs bring Lexicon's rating. Songs without them (for example from rekordbox, which doesn't rate energy) get them automatically a few seconds after you put them on the timeline. To rate many songs at once, select them and click Analyze.

Click Duplicates under Music Collection. The best copy is listed first (lossless before MP3, then the higher bitrate); Select extra copies selects the rest, ready to remove.

Yes, with a sound card that has four outputs. PERFORM plays the mix to the room on outputs 1–2 while you preview the next blend on outputs 3–4. See Perform in the Manual.

Yes, to Shoutcast (v1 and v2) and Icecast servers, with song titles sent to your listeners. Set it up in Preferences → Live broadcasting, then press Go on air in the Broadcast window. See Live broadcasting.

Not with streaming services: GlideMix needs your music as files. A DJ controller or audio interface works as a sound card (for Perform and the headphone cue); its knobs and jog wheels aren't mapped.

Yes, under the GNU GPL, built on Audacity, and the source code of every release is on the Download page. Building it yourself is hard and unsupported; the licence pays for the ready-to-run program, updates and support, and keeps GlideMix going.

No. GlideMix doesn't send usage data. It only goes online to check for updates, to activate your licence and to download the stems engine. See the privacy policy.

Open its clip menu → Open in Beatgrid editor and fix the grid; the fix is kept for every project.

Raise the buffer size in Preferences → Audio settings. On Windows, also add GlideMix and your music folders to the Windows Defender exclusions.

In #bug-reports on Discord (say Mac or Windows and what you did), or by email to [email protected], with the newest log file (where to find it: Problems and logs). GlideMix is in Beta and improves every week.