THE ADVERSARY wrote:Coz wrote:
From limited experience I know it's a feature that won't rescue a dodgy performance, but even in a 'top of the line' DAW like Cubase 8 it can be clunky.
Feels more like something that gets in the way of a good performance. 
When people were asking JJ for it and then talking about how good it was, I was surprised that they thought it was a useful tool.
Good lord. Quantise strength moves notes played live and unquantised, towards the timing correct value but only moves the notes by the amount of percentage set in the quantise strength.
If you set quantise strength to 50% notes get moved half way to the timing correct value. Which means they still retain half the inaccuracies of your playing.
For me this means I have the option to have my drum playing tightened up timing wise but not necessarily and exclusively to computer perfect timing which is what 100% quantise is. Without a quantise strength percentage your only option with correcting timing is either perfect computer timing or the live timing of your playing.
What is so difficult to understand about that?
Why is it a clunky feature?
The beauty of it for me is you can have some human timing in the drum timing but also make it tight and useable, to any degree you choose. How many people use unquantised drum beats? Not many. Everyone quantises and we have music that is always drum machine timing.
I use swing and earlier/later shifting on my MPC60II.
But it is still accurate timing.
When I use varying strengths of quantise on my Motif XF7 (I usually use 50% out of habit for drums) a a lot more feel is left in the music.
Is this not important and useful?
It is difficult to use live drumming timing because drum patterns don't sound good unless they are reasonably tight timing. Try playing a 16th note hihat live and not quantise it.
Now imagine you could CHOOSE how close to perfect timing it get's modified with a percentage!
Welcome to groovier music!
