What are your experiences with automatic audio quantization in DAWs? Let's assume I have guitar tracks that I want to get automatically corrected by the DAW... Logic has flex time, Pro Tools has beat detective and elastic audio, Cubase and other DAWs seem to have similar features, too. Which DAW is the easiest to use and most reliable for this task?
I use Logic and find the flex time feature a little bit inconvenient to use (but maybe I'm just doing it the wrong way, who knows). Are other DAWs offering a more convenient and quicker workflow - maybe even a reliable one-click solution?
DAW with best automatic audio quantization
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GrabtharsHammer GrabtharsHammer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=377531
- KVRian
- 543 posts since 7 Apr, 2016 from Bünde, Germany
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Robert Randolph Robert Randolph https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7328 - KVRAF
- 2226 posts since 25 May, 2003 from Saint Petersburg, Florida
Live is one. Studio One 3 is another, so is Reaper 5 and Cubase.ls1xxx wrote:Albeton's
Basically anything with warp/stretch/bend/whatever marker quantizing will sound very very similar if they're using elastique.
Studio One and Live do combine ease of use with Elastique V3 though, so that's probably your best starting point.
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- KVRAF
- 3506 posts since 12 May, 2011
Do you know something we don't?Robert Randolph wrote:... and Cubase 9...ls1xxx wrote:Albeton's
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Robert Randolph Robert Randolph https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7328
- KVRAF
- 2226 posts since 25 May, 2003 from Saint Petersburg, Florida
Surely you just happened to misquote me. I don't see a 9 there.Googly Smythe wrote:Do you know something we don't?Robert Randolph wrote:... and Cubase 9...ls1xxx wrote:Albeton's
I know nothing!
(Is that enough emoticons yet? Am I being ambiguously clear?)
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- KVRAF
- 3506 posts since 12 May, 2011
The keystroke was quicker than the eye!Robert Randolph wrote:Surely you just happened to misquote me. I don't see a 9 there.Googly Smythe wrote:Do you know something we don't?Robert Randolph wrote:... and Cubase 9...ls1xxx wrote:Albeton's
I know nothing!
(Is that enough emoticons yet? Am I being ambiguously clear?)
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- KVRist
- 39 posts since 4 Aug, 2015 from U.S.
I use Live and Pro Tools and I think they both sound slightly off when quantizing guitars and would never use either extensively. You're better off manually editing, in which case you definitely don't want Live.
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- KVRAF
- 2493 posts since 6 Dec, 2005 from Bay Area, USA
I use this feature in Samplitude all the time.
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- KVRian
- 932 posts since 14 Dec, 2014
Beyond processes you apply directly to audio, like Warping, Groove quantization and vanilla quantization, in Ableton Live you can also Slice To MIDI/Rack, making very easy to manually adjust the timing of audio slices by just moving MIDI notes.
Live also allows unorthodox workflows like getting the MIDI of a famous guitar part (Live has a very good audio-to-midi function too) and applying its "groove" (timing,velocity) to your recorded audio. I guess it mostly useful for covers, but if you nailed one part of a original song, you could "extract the groove" of that good part and apply it to the rest.
Live also allows unorthodox workflows like getting the MIDI of a famous guitar part (Live has a very good audio-to-midi function too) and applying its "groove" (timing,velocity) to your recorded audio. I guess it mostly useful for covers, but if you nailed one part of a original song, you could "extract the groove" of that good part and apply it to the rest.