After some experimentation tonight I'm getting the right amount of shuffle out the SP1200 at 54% and 58% shuffle. Any more than that and it sounds like horses trotting and too much like triplets. And that's not the sound I'm looking for. I don't want a jazz feel or anything like that.
To me shuffle can't exist without static notes/steps behind grooved stepts that arrive early and late. If everything is colliding into each other without any type of static backdrop of on- time notes than you have a mess. Some notes need to be in place without any push or pull. That's just my thoughts on it.
Also whoever said to do stuff by hand is brilliant. I think some of my best shuffled stuff has came by playing pads by hand and letting the track breath a little, and then doing post-quantization and then listen to the magic. I never use 100% rate either. For some read reason I get the best stuff at about 54% and 54% with the CS. Also, another trick I learned was to record at 1/4 style and split the tempo in half. So if your goal is to play at 1/16th's, you are gonna now only have 8 steps and your tempo is at 64 verses BPM verses 128 bpm. I learned this in the SP1200 forum. I don't even know why this works but it seems to work well... at least for me. But when I go back and crank it back to normal I get different results. It could be a happy accident by someone and I copied their trick, or maybe it's just a placebo effect and nothing really cool is going on there. I don't know, but I like the end result.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Szőnyi András <andras@...> wrote:
You are right!
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Atom Smasher wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Sz?nyi Andr?s wrote:
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>> I mean "human feeling",
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> i often hear it in my head, then tap it out in real-time-record.
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And tap it out with the same timing on the the bass channel too. :)
And if you can already do it anytime you want, you don't need to use
a midi sequencer anymore. That is all about. :)
Andrew
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