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Editing Events
Groove Quantize Tips
Here are some tips to help you with groove quantizing:
Aligning sloppy tracks with a good one. Select the portion of the
ÒgoodÓ track that you want to apply to the ÒsloppyÓ tracks and copy it to
the Clipboard. Select the portion of the sloppy tracks you want to modify.
Choose Edit-Groove Quantize, choose the Clipboard as the groove
source, and click OK.
Accenting beats in each measure. Create a sample measure
containing note events at the desired accent points. Give the notes on
the accented beats a greater velocity and the others a lesser velocity.
Select the measure, copy it to the Clipboard, and then choose Edit-
Groove Quantize. Set the velocity strength as high as necessary so that
the notes get accented the way you want.
Stealing that feeling. Suppose you have a dry piece that was composed
and entered into Pro Audio with a rigid sense of timing (for example,
using step recording). YouÕve recorded a bass line that has exactly the
off-beat rhythmic dynamic you want for the dry piece. YouÕd like to force
your other tracks to share that feel. Copy the bass track to the
Clipboard; from the Groove Quantize dialog box, select the Clipboard as
the groove source; choose a resolution value roughly on the order of the
duration of the bass notes and a window of 100 percent. Pro Audio aligns
the melody note events with the nearest bass notes.
Synchronizing rhythm and solo tracks. If you want to preserve the
unique rhythm of each track but want to synchronize them together in
time, try a larger resolution value and a smaller window. For example,
suppose you have one track with a highly stylized drum beat and
another track containing a jazz solo with some very nice runs in it. The
drum beats fall primarily on quarter notes, but the solo consists of runs
of fast notes that arenÕt quite sixteenth triplets. Copy the drum track to
the Clipboard, and groove quantize using a quarter-note resolution and
a window of perhaps 10 percent. Pro Audio aligns the solo notes near the
quarter-note drum beats but maintains the feel of the solo during the
fast runs of notes in between.
Correcting off-tempo tracks. Suppose you have both rhythm and
melody tracks recorded, but the melody was played erratically. First,
copy the rhythm track to the Windows clipboard. Then use groove
quantize with a whole-note resolution, a window of 25 percent or less,
and with the Scale Time option selected. The Groove Quantize
command will synchronize the melody track with the groove source at
roughly measure boundaries, while maintaining the relative timing of
the notes in each measure.
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