Swing a track just on playback?
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Swing a track just on playback?
Hi all - I want to write a track that should play back swung. In other words, write it in straight 4/4/ time but have it play the way a musician would play it if the word "Swing" was written on the manuscript. Is there some way to force DP to play a straight 4/4 - swinging? I do not want to change everything to 12/8
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Re: Swing a track just on playback?
Talking MIDI I presume, can you simply apply real-time swing quantization to each track to achieve the desired playback timing?rosindabow wrote:Hi all - I want to write a track that should play back swung. In other words, write it in straight 4/4/ time but have it play the way a musician would play it if the word "Swing" was written on the manuscript. Is there some way to force DP to play a straight 4/4 - swinging? I do not want to change everything to 12/8
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Re: Swing a track just on playback?
HI - I'm not sure what you mean. I do not want to quantize the track because I want it to be able to be written as a player would read it. I just want to hear it back swung. Does that make sense?HCMarkus wrote:Talking MIDI I presume, can you simply apply real-time swing quantization to each track to achieve the desired playback timing?rosindabow wrote:Hi all - I want to write a track that should play back swung. In other words, write it in straight 4/4/ time but have it play the way a musician would play it if the word "Swing" was written on the manuscript. Is there some way to force DP to play a straight 4/4 - swinging? I do not want to change everything to 12/8
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Re: Swing a track just on playback?
What HCMarkus said...
It's a MIDI plugin, so you can bypass it anytime or even tweak the "hardness" of the swing right there in the plugin. You'll see everything straight but hear swing
It's a MIDI plugin, so you can bypass it anytime or even tweak the "hardness" of the swing right there in the plugin. You'll see everything straight but hear swing
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