swing? 1 way!

I've started to play around with the timing correct , I'll make a pattern
then I;ll roll through the different timing options till it sounds tighter. Is that all
there is to it , is it all just preference. and with that what is swing. can someone
break that down real simple for me? why can you only adjust it from 50% to 75%
thanks from beyond the womb! def.

swing adds a slight to gradual syncopation to the timing correct pattern. You can see the effects if you use note repeat.

deftonelepard wrote: is it all just preference.

Isn't that pretty much what music is?

swing, eh?
People will argue that it means all sorts of different things because it is a sort of nebulous term like groove, but on the MPC, it has a very specific meaning.

I'll try to explain it as best as I understand.

if your grid-locked 8th notes are all evenly spaced out, this might be called no swing, but is called 50% swing on the MP, perhaps because each note is positioned half-way (50%) between the note that precedes it and the note that follows.

visually, that could be represented something like this:

|...|...|...|...|...|...|...|...

as you increase that swing percent, every second note will be pushed a little further back, lagging behind that perfectly square time we see above. Something more like:

|....|..|....|..|....|..|....|..

Taken to the extreme, ie. 75% swing, those shifted notes end up all the way over to where the third note of an 1/8 note triplet pattern would fall, so the timing will feel like 1/8 triplet time, but because it's a swung 1/8th, you'll only be getting notes on 2 out of 3 of the places you would get triplets falling, the first and third.

Hope that helps. Cheers
J

^^ good description