The RideComposer YouTube Channel Is Live: Our First 4 Videos

Some things an article explains perfectly well. Others — dragging a mix point, drawing a curve, plugging in a second screen — are settled better by thirty seconds of video than by a full page of text.

That's what the RideComposer YouTube channel is for: youtube.com/@Ridecomposer. Four videos are already online, short and to the point: open the software, make the move, see the result.

1. Changing a track's BPM

How to modify the BPM — how to speed a track up or slow it down straight from the Track Editor. RideComposer time-stretches the audio without changing the pitch: the track still sounds right, but it lands on the cadence you want to give the room. Handy when a track you love sits 8 BPM away from the profile you had in mind.

2. Setting the volume

How to change volume — a track's level and its volume curves, so a quiet track doesn't get flattened by the next one, and a transition hands over cleanly.

3. Coach Mode on a second screen

coach 2nd screen — how to send Coach Mode to an external screen, full size, at the foot of your bike. Your laptop stays the control desk, and you stop squinting to read your own cues.

4. The video screen for the room

External video screen — the other screen, the one facing your riders: a local video of your choice playing during class. We covered the two-screen logic in this article; the video shows the actual setup.

What's next?

These four are just a start, and what comes next depends largely on you. If there's a move you can't quite picture, or a feature you keep thinking you're using wrong, tell us — that's exactly the kind of thing that deserves a video. Write to us from the contact page, or ask Rozalia, the chat assistant on the site.

And if you'd like to know when a new video goes up, subscribe to the channel. Have a great class.