would this be possible?

hi forum,
i just had an idea and it won't get out of my head, so i'll post it here, tell me what you think about this:

there is another option besides 'time shift' and 'swing'. it's calles 'humanize' or whatever and if you switch it on, the mpc still quantizes the notes, but it moves the notes randomly some steps earlyer or later. and in my dreams, you can tell your mpc how much you want the notes to be randomly placed around the note. let me explain this with an example!

you switch on the humanize mode and choose:
5 steps earlier / 10 steps later

quantize is set to 16th.

now you record and instead of moving the notes to 00, 24, 48 and 72, the mpc randomly puts the note on a value between 5 before or 10 after the quantized position. ie 7 (+7), 20 (-4), 58 (+10) and 72 (+-0).

i'm not sure if the mpc is capable of radomizing, but the rest would be just programming.

what do you think?

bye
the commander

I like this idea, I would want to be able to control when the mpc actually did this with a foot switch or the tap tempo button or something, or maybe the severity of the changes with the q-link sliders.

Actually obtaining this, it would probably have to be some super random algorithm, probably a pain in the ass to write into an os...

weve had this come up b4...would b sweet!

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... t=humanise

well a random number generator i think its a taxing process as far as CPU goes...

why dont you just load your sequence down with midi commands? timing gets sloppy that way, just how you like it!

If it would be possible to route the lfo to the swing this would be possible. It would not nesseraly sound "human", but maybee this option is more resalistic. I think there should be more routing possibility anyways..

q-link to lfo
lfo to pitch
pitch to lfo
pitch to filter
lfo to note start - stop

etc...

so you guys think that a randomize-algorithm isn't possible on the mpc?

something more like a sample and hold bit of code would be more practical than a random number generator. i think it could be done.