HOW TO GIVE YOUR DRUMS THAT PERFECT SWING!!!

i'm good thanks!

I am now happily married and a father of two!

Plus the sun is shining so... All is good!

nice one cheechster!!

congrats and all that....

still doing the tunes?

dubs

thanks!

i'm still working on some stuff whenever i have time - which nowadays is not that often. been doing some live shows tho, i play in a couple of bands every now and then. percussions and bass.

I subscribe to the camp that a lot of the feel for how a track turns out has to do with the way you play your samples. I'm trying to play stuff as live as possible with no swing/quantize...but I have a question about swing.

Now obviously, you can apply a global swing that creates a "go-go" type of feel like you hear, for example, on some early Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince stuff. I'd have to look up a song title for an exact reference, I'm sure yall know what I'm talking about. And then there's swing like Premier has been known for lately as used on say Royce's ish where the drums are mad tight. These tracks don't swing like go-go but he must have swing on the Kicks at least.

I'm trying to figure this out on Reason (they say Reason's swing is based on the MPC60) So to understand on MPC's you can apply differing swing values to each track? Can you assign it before playing it or do you apply it after all drums are done? In other words, before hand can you set your kick's swing to 60%, your snare and Hats to 50%, and then bang out your pattern?

Was the SP1200 like that also? I mean it sounds to me like TROY has "some" swing, but I can't make out if it's globally applied and I know some mad go-go ish sounding stuff has been created using the SP.

I'm just curious as to how these machines operate.

There is no perfect swing setting idiot

the thing with swing and drum machines is that each machine has its own groove...thats what makes them cool,i've used just about all of them and own quite a few ..each one adds a different feel to the drums,its hard to replicate the feel of a sp12 or linn drum on a mpc because a lot of the feel is down to the interface of the actual machines ,but then the sp12 and linn dont do the mpc groove...surprisingly high in the groove charts is the ensoniq asr-x once its been set to your own style of dynamics is a very groovy machine(impossible to use but very groovy)

Damn after reading this whole thrad,i feel liek I aint know sh!t!Gadamn i will have to go home now and start tying some other stuff,good advice from everybody.

Perfect swing setting - recording in a beat with no quantize at 4am when i come in wasted from a Saturday night.

wrong postttttttttt

Can I get clarification on how swing is programmed on an MPC as opposed to an SP? Am I close in assuming you can assign differing swing values to each track on an MPC? SP shuffle is global?

Jacpot wrote:There is no perfect swing setting idiot

Co-sign...

But homie was just giving a tip. He was excited about something he found out and wanted to share. Is that so bad?? Maybe his title should have been "My perfect swing setting".

To all the people saying they take quantize off and just play it out, why even have a mpc? That is the only part of the mpc that makes it unique/special.

To quantize or not to quantize, that is the question. I say, do it how you feel, if you like your isht, more power to ya.

mindcontrol wrote:whatever works

There's not much more to say really..for me it used to work dealing just with 16th and triplets..most times in fact..
otherwise for that particular "african styled beat" I'd get into fine editing..trying mathematic options

KnownCreature wrote:like son said to each is own but i perfer to quantize. it gives your tracks a profesional sound