By
trupro
Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:55 pm
Word, cosine with MC smooth. Actually, there are people who have tried to devise ppq (pulse-per-quarternote) accurate emulations of the MPC swing template. On of my boys has settings he devised for cubase to do this...Reason is a good example. It does a good job of swinging individual tracks the same way that MPCs do it. Of course, with software sequencers, you don't have to master the earlier-later combinations with swing, because you can visually drag the note almost any ppq increment later or earlier. Anyway, if you know how to use any sequencer, you can get the same sound. It's just that the great thing about an MPC is, it's realtime quantizing is very forgiving, and so it 'catches' your playing better than alot of other hardware sequencers. Meaning, even with no quantizing on input, it just seems to 'know what you meant to do' when you go ahead and apply that quantizing.
Now, to the 2000XLs swing: What MC smooth said is very tru about quantizing each time AFTER you lay each midi track. This is especially true with the XL model. With the XL, (versus the classic) for some reason, when you do a swing setting combined with earlier/later, and use this quantize WHILE you record, you get really odd tripplet configurations.
Do it afterword...
And yes, no matter what you do, earlier and later will effect the swing as well. The higher both numbers, the more effect that will have, obviously. But also, they can effect each other's setting inversely as well. To understand this, think of swing as a 'shuffling' of notes, per track, on each individual midi track you apply it to. That is, think of it as moving the first note an tiny tiny bit forward, and the one after it a tiny bit later, almost impercieveably, every other note this way down the line, and so on. The more the swing, the more it does that. So if you apply a later setting, it will take a little bit of that away, because you've now reduced the amount of 'earliness' that the swing setting gave to every other note. A good thing to remember is that the harder you swing, the earlier the notes will sound, so using a 'later' setting can soften that effect and offset it a bit. Of course, all this is dependent on the truncation of each sample, and the attack of it or any midi patch you use. Everything is dependant on everything else.
Whether you lay down tracks with the quantizing on during input, or apply after, You can't go wrong with just hard quantizing everything to 50% 16th notes with no swing, and then adjusting from there and re-apply. Also, remember always that it's not cumulative. What you enter when you hit 'do it' is what you get. Each time, not additive, so you are 'overwriting', not adding on to the quantize/swing each time. Also, remeber that it's not 'shuffle' like a roland sequencer, that moves every track in the song in relation to each other. It's per track, and the relativity to every other track is up to you! Even when you select "All" (or note 0-127 if it's a midi track), you are effecting 'all' notes in that track you opened the window on.