By
sirreal
Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:51 pm
but in my experiences with swing, in its artificial form, this generally would only apply to drums and other percussion occasionally (most commonly kicks and snares). The MPC swing is merely a more abstract form of quantizing to give more variation to the beat in an attempt to make the beat sound less mechanical and less rhythmically precise. I personally have experimented and come to find only comfortable ranges between 52 and 55 before my tracks begin to alter a bit too much. I am certain that others would have varying opinions, but I think a good example of swing would be Dre's beats. Don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that he is using swing somewhere between 53-58 percent. If you notice, most of his drums have a unique almost delay to him that make all of his tracks kick you in the butt to move. I have recently just started to negate the swing and just set quantize to off. This way all mistakes stick and sometimes this is the best type of swing (after all swing is suppos to represent the natural drummer style that you can't get with quantizing).
Just my 2 cents and worth just that...
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