Quantizing with Swing

If you are working with MIDI hi-hats or bass lines or audio equivalents, you may want to apply more of a swing feel when quantizing.

To quantize with an eighth note swing feel:

1 Select the range of MIDI notes, Elastic Audio events, or audio clips to be quantized.

2 Choose Event > Event Operations > Quantize.

3 Under What to Quantize, select the Note On option for quantizing MIDI notes. To also quantize MIDI note durations, select the Note Off option. If you are quantizing audio, select Audio Clips or Elastic Audio Events from the pop-up menu.

4 From the Quantize Grid pop-up menu, select eighth notes (1/8).

5 Select the Swing option with the Swing percentage you want:

For a light swing, use 12%.

For a tighter swing-like groove, use 24%.

For a true “triplet-like” swing feel, use 50–75%.

6 Ensure that the options for Tuplet, Offset Grid By, and Randomize are not selected.

7 Click Apply.

8 Audition the change. If the desired effect is not achieved, undo the edit and experiment with different Swing percentages.