Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "tahvenaine2002"
<toni.ahvenainen@p...> wrote:
> How do you do this quantize thing in cubase? Is it automatic or do 
> you have toi splice every hit separately. I would love to hear that 
> there is quik way to do this..
> 
> Toni.


It's quite simple.  Cubase places all of the hits for you.

Here's the process: After recording (or importing) your audio into
Cubase, double click on the audio in the project window to bring up
the sample editor.  In the sample editor, click the "Hitpoint Mode"
button (the same option is on the menu at Audio | Advanced | Calculate
hitpoints).  It pops up a dialog to set a few options--the most
important thing is to get the BPM range close to that of the actual
sample (and since you recorded from the MD, you should know the
tempo).  After the hitpoints appear, you can adjust the sensitivity to
make sure you get all the indidividual drum hits.  After this, select
"Create Audio Slices" from the Advanced menu (under Audio or on the
right-click menu).  

This divides the audio clip into a series of audio events, each of
which contain one hit.  Now you'll be back in project view. 
Double-click on the audio track again, which brings up the part
editor.  Select all of the slices (Edit | Select All, or just
highlight them all with the mouse).  Now select MIDI | Over Quantize,
and it should move all the hits so they're lined up with the beat.  If
that's not quite right, Undo and go to MIDI | Quanitze Setup... and
make sure you're quantizing to the right notes (probably 1/16 if it's
coming from the MD).

This method has worked fine for me for a lot of different patterns. 
If you have trouble, try recording using a few separate outs so you
have multiple but simpler audio tracks--the hitpoint algorithm works
much better on simpler audio, it seems.  And though this all may sound
complicated, you can literally do this in 30 seconds after you figure
it out the first time.

Cheers,
Dan