Help me swing (with feelin)

[nelsongrae]

Help me swing (with feelin).

I do pop with groove kind of music using cubase sx and Id like to know how to get my songs some swing.
Tempo 106-126 depending if faster or slower song

Do you quantise all the drums together or seperate.
If so how.
Do you match the other instuments to the drums or do they get their own quantise.
If so how.

Love to hear from ya.

Many thanx in advace.

[kritikon]

Do you quantise all the drums together or seperate.
If so how.
Do you match the other instuments to the drums or do they get their own quantise.
If so how.

I don't do any of those things. I don't quantise drums at all. I'll either use loops and chop them and rearrange them, or I'll play them in on a keyboard and use only the bits that sound OK (which is generally a very small selection ), or I'll simply write in the 4/4 backing on the beats etc and play in individual lines over the top. Or a mixture of all 3.

Quantising drums is just nasty (my opinion only).

Likewise I don't quantise instruments - I'll play them in or sequence them in and fiddle with each note individually if I feel it's wrong. If needs be I'll record endless versions and pick the best bits of the best ones. Quantising means every part has exactly the same timing and I just don't like that...too robotic to me. Even if I'm doing some really regimented dance type stuff, I still don't quantise...I might repeat the same part etc, but never quantise. In fact I wish I could just rub off the whole quantise sections of Cubase...I have rarely if ever used it in any version apart from when I first started out and really couldn't play to save my life (some still say I can't ).

[jones-y]

What I do is first, record my drum pattern so that its very close to what I'm shooting for.

From there, I may apply a quantize, but not a rigid quantize (in other words, choose a quantize template and then adjust the quantize strength so that the notes move towards the quantize grid, but not snap to it) There are also other quantize settings that I play with occasionally, like quantize range (which sets the range of notes that a quantize template will affect - in other words, if a note is closer than 30 ticks away, it won't touch it...)

An alternate method is to move the notes around manually.

But the most important thing is to get as close to what you desire when recording the pattern. You may want to try slowing the sequencer down to record it more accurately.

Also remember that the drum part doesn't sit in a vacuum, the timing interaction between it and various other bits of the song is important too, and I take the same approach WRT getting the groove I want.

[kode_poet]

I would sooo change the name of this thread