ANSWER · ARRANGEMENT & DJ EDIT
Track length on Club Ready Music
“How long can a Club Ready Music track be?”
A Club Ready Music track can be between 2:00 and 5:00 long. You choose the length in the Groove panel in 30-second steps: 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 or 5:00. The default is 3:30. Five minutes is the maximum the music model will render in one pass.
How the length is used
The duration is sent to the music model as an exact target in seconds, and the model shapes the arrangement to fit it. Club Ready Music's own arrangement settings, intro bars, drop at bar, break bars and outro bars, are expressed in bars rather than time, so the model distributes the remaining bars between them. The final file length is then measured after the hard start trim and used to compute the outro start cue.
What fits in each length
At 126 BPM a bar is about 1.9 seconds, so:
| Length | Bars at 126 BPM | What fits |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 | 63 | A hook, one verse, a drop; a tool or a short edit |
| 3:00 | 94 | Radio shape: two verses, choruses, one break |
| 3:30 | 110 | A radio edit with a short DJ intro and outro |
| 4:00 | 126 | A club track with 16-bar intro and outro |
| 5:00 | 157 | An extended mix: 16-bar intro, two drops, a break, 32-bar outro |
The defaults, a 16-bar intro, drop at bar 32, 16-bar break and 32-bar outro, assume a five-minute track. With a two-minute length those settings consume most of the song, so shorten the intro and outro to 8 and 16 bars.
Faster tempos
Bar counts fix the structure, so at higher BPM the same bars take less time. A 16-bar intro at 174 BPM is 22 seconds. If you want a 30-second intro on a drum and bass track, choose 32 bars.
Extended Mix suffix
The (Extended Mix) checkbox adds that suffix to the title in the tags and share page. It is a label and does not change the length; untick it for a radio edit or a short track.
Radio edit option
The Master & export panel lists Radio edit 3:30.
Longer than five minutes
The model's upper limit is five minutes per render. DJs wanting a longer tool can extend the drums-only intro or the instrumental outro by looping bars in their own software; both sections are designed to loop cleanly. Club Ready Music's separate DJ edit studio also adds looped drum intros and outros to finished songs.
Shorter than two minutes
Two minutes is the minimum for a full track. Jingles, drops and spots of 5 to 30 seconds are made in the drops studio, which uses a different pipeline.
Frequently asked
Can I make a track longer than 5 minutes?
Not in one render. The model's maximum is five minutes. Longer edits are made by extending the intro or outro in your own software.
Will the track be exactly the length I pick?
Very close. The model targets the duration you set, and the hard start trim can shave a fraction of a second.