Midi question/ request

[terrynoakes]

At the risk of embarrassing myself, due to lack of music theory.
Is it possible to quantise midi notes, as triplets & dotted, in Waveform?
The reason I ask is, I installed Cubase LE elements, out of curiosity, to see how their midi worked and it came up with these options for Midi notes. Also liked the ease of splitting clips with scissor tool.
Cheers

[Stuttaton]

If you want to work with triplets, you should set the quantizing of the clip to 1/3 beat (for 8th note triplets).

[chico.co.uk]

Hi, yes, triplets at least. Depending on what you're trying to do, you'd either set the quantise on the input to 1/3 beat or 1/12 beat, assuming you're using 4/4 time, or you'd select the notes you wanted to highlight, and then quantise them to 1/3 or 1/12 beat, or you'd select the midi clip itself and quantise to 1/3 or 1/12 of a beat.

You can also set the time signature to triplets, if you look in the bottom right, where it defaults to 4/4 C, above the transport controls. Click on 4/4, and there's a time signature screen, with a button you can toggle for triplets. If the whole song, or that section is in triplets, I suppose.

I'm not sure about quantising to dotted notes - i've never tried to do that. If you were quantising to a dotted eighth note (a quaver), for example, well a quaver is a 1/2 beat in 4/4 time, the dot is worth half of the quaver again, so you end up with it being 3/4 of a beat. I don't think there is a way to quantise to 3/4 of a beat. If there is, I don't know how to do it. I'd just quantise to 1/4 beat, probably, if I was trying to do it, and potentially have to move stuff that was wrong ...

[terrynoakes]

Thanks,
thanks for explanation Chico, much appreciated.