How Do You Mix Rap Songs With Techno Songs??

Use a BPM analyser to find some aca’s/techno roughly the same speed

http://www.mixmeister.com/bpmanalyzer/bpmanalyzer.asp

If you have the luxury of using logic there is a bpm counter that has proved accurate from my experiences. Once you get the BPM you just open the track in the sample editor, go the the factory tab, then click on the time and pitch machine. From there you can enter in the current bpm and the desired bpm

you can stretch audio to fit the bpm as well, but again this is not always reliable. If the key of the song is not important, try slowing down the acapella to fit the vocals. and its the same for rap on rap too. you just have to spend some time fine tuning things and it will eventually come together. what are the two songs if you don’t mind me asking?

Remedy wrote:

there’s plenty of rap songs that’ll mix into techno, try 3 six mafia, Ugk, Twista or anything round that tempo, double time rap type of stuff, break ya neck by Busta Rhymes maybe.

I agree, double timing is the easiest without much adjustment to BPM/Pitch. As long as the songs are in Key, you can get a nice clean transition from down south/crunk ish to dubstep/hardstyle etc..

Well in house it is: 128 BPM. Now get the rap song 128 / 2 = 64 BPM. You can try that, it will match the beat but it will go 2x as slow.

You can speed the track up to match BPMs of the techno without the pitch changing using a program like audacity, so you could essentially match any rap song you want over whatever techno song you’re thinking of.
Here’s an example of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwTOO1rZBpY
The creator boosted Lupe’s song by at least 30 bpms, but it sounds awesome in my opinion. But just to warn you, its much fidning something that fits well with rap and techno.

2 songs that are different speeds are gonna sound terrible if the speed are not adjusted.

there’s tons of ways of cheating to achieve this but its basically all about timing

easist way would be to pick a rap track thats about 125bpm : )

other than that their are programs out there that can reduce/increase the tempo/bpm without altering the pitch. I dont own a specific one myself but Im sure someone with know of one on here

regards

Match the tempo of both songs, and if you plan ahead and find the key of both songs you can match that too… then you do a low pass filter on the techno tune to get the 4×4 UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ drums and kicks and low-end goodness , and do a high pass on the rap song so you just get the high-end, the the vocals are the most important thing anyway and maybe some synths/other instruments in that part of the frequency spectrum will get through as well…this will remove the low-end which is being occupied by your TECHNO song…. and BAM you’ve created a nice mix… but tempo is the biggest thing and key of songs if you want better results.

It can be done in various ways. One is to simply cut from on to the other like you would when mixing hip hop, another is to do a pitchstop on one and set the track mixing in on a slow pitch start. You can also echo out one and set that echo to the same bpm as the track thats coming in. Be creative.