Message 5/10
Date: 05-Jan-00 @ 01:55 PM -
RE: learn to quantize
yup... all the s/w's have a protocol to define quantise's... doing them manually is another matter, as with all of them you can create & define your own custom quantises, or take the quantise from the audio loop - Logic is the king for this whole area imho - creating a matched audio quantise to apply to your (say) hi-hat riff is a piece of cake in Logic - but in essence, most quantises simply take the basic time signature 4/4, 4/8 etc and then allocated different 'feels' within that signature... garage & jungle/drum&bass, as well as certain house styles utilise these alternative quantises the most - on say some swing-y ibiza style tech-house you get the quantise swing on the hats or hats & tambourine etc, with maybe some other odd swing-based sound like a snare or rimshot occupying another swing pattern to emphasise the 'Hop' of the swing before the kik-drums or snare beats - in essence its about 'T' or triplet groves overlaid onto straight 4/4 patterns...
see the pattern - to increase the signature/quantise, (which defaults on this grid to 4/4 with 4 divisions to every beat), that is HALF a bar.. so copy this pattern x2 to make a full 4/4 bar...
IF YOU PLAYED THE BASIC BEAT - without the 'DA-SKIP', you'd get a basic house 'BOOM-TISH / BOOM-TISH' beat - but adding that extra skip in between the closed hat & kik (4/4 beat marker) and the open-hat 'TISH' add's a skip - IF, it is pushed TOWARDS the open hat 'tish' - then you get - BOOM-TISH / BOOM-K'TISH / BOOM-TISH / BOOM-K'TISH... SORta feel the little 'k' skip beat before the open hat gives it the skip/swing...
as i say - bare in mind the grid here shows HALF a bar of music - bouble uit to get the full 4/4 bar - experiment with placing drum hits in-between the 4's on the 1/2 beats and shift them TOWARDS the next square beat to create swing...
look at the dummy 16th beat marker, and you can see the 'DA-SKIP' beat is pushed forward towards the next square 4/4 beat -
i'll be adding a bunch of garage beat midi-files soon all with swing quantises..