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By Stoobert Sun May 11, 2025 8:07 pm
I would guess this has been asked a million times but here we are :oops:

So I have a couple of tracks within a project that I want to quatize (time correct) at different rates.
So the overall project tc is set at 16 but there's a couple of parts where I would like to input more complexed patterns which will require 32 or even 32t.

I cannot for the life of me work out how to do this but surely by christ this function is available on a powerful DAW like this.?????

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.
Stew
By Stoobert Sun May 11, 2025 9:15 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:If you want to record a specific track at 1/32 then set timing correct to 1/32 while you record that track.



So if I have 8 tracks recorded in midi mode and they have been recorded at 16, I can go back to tc, set it to 32 and then recorded the next midi part and that will individually record that one part in 32?
Afterwards though, if i then set the tc back to 16 to carry on recording other tracks, will it not change the 32 track to 16 aswell?

Also, is there no way to make that adjust post recording?

Just seems like a very basic function that most hardware sequencers do very easily.
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By MPC-Tutor Sun May 11, 2025 9:54 pm
Stoobert wrote:So if I have 8 tracks recorded in midi mode and they have been recorded at 16, I can go back to tc, set it to 32 and then recorded the next midi part and that will individually record that one part in 32?


Yes.

Afterwards though, if i then set the tc back to 16 to carry on recording other tracks, will it not change the 32 track to 16 aswell?


No

Also, is there no way to make that adjust post recording?


Yes, select a track, open the timing correct screen, change the settings and hit 'apply'. Otherwise, your track will be unaffected by any timing correct settings you record with elsewhere.

Just seems like a very basic function that most hardware sequencers do very easily.[/quote]
By Stoobert Sun May 11, 2025 10:01 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:
Stoobert wrote:So if I have 8 tracks recorded in midi mode and they have been recorded at 16, I can go back to tc, set it to 32 and then recorded the next midi part and that will individually record that one part in 32?


Yes.

Afterwards though, if i then set the tc back to 16 to carry on recording other tracks, will it not change the 32 track to 16 aswell?


No

Also, is there no way to make that adjust post recording?


Yes, select a track, open the timing correct screen, change the settings and hit 'apply'. Otherwise, your track will be unaffected by any timing correct settings you record with elsewhere.

Just seems like a very basic function that most hardware sequencers do very easily.
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So essentially the tc setting is only relevant in terms of recording?
I.e if it says tc 16 it doesn't refer to a timing correction for everything, it's purely just telling you that the next thing you record will be altered to tc 16?

Am I better off recording all tracks with tc turned off and then go into grid view afterwards to apply tc.
At least that way if it isn't quite what I want I can undo and reapply tc in a different timing?

Thanks for all the responses this is really helpful!!
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By MPC-Tutor Sun May 11, 2025 10:03 pm
Stoobert wrote:So essentially the tc setting is only relevant in terms of recording?
I.e if it says tc 16 it doesn't refer to a timing correction for everything, it's purely just telling you that the next thing you record will be altered to tc 16?


Yes

Am I better off recording all tracks with tc turned off and then go into grid view afterwards to apply tc.
At least that way if it isn't quite what I want I can undo and reapply tc in a different timing?


No right or wrong way, just go for whichever way you prefer.
By Stoobert Sun May 11, 2025 10:07 pm
Thanks a lot for the help.

This is day 2 of using the software.
I have been out of the game for 10 years and software was never my strong suit to start with so there's been a lot of head scratching and problem solving in the last 24 hrs but really enjoying it!!