Quantization and off-grid notes
Re: Quantization and off-grid notes
Im a big fan of Burial's music. His off-grid placement is fucking stunning, it's not techno obiviously and his genre relies more to having a big swing, but it's very inspirational imo.
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Re: Quantization and off-grid notes
nice idea. sometimes i might manually draw a volume envelope.GLinet wrote:I even like moving the ghost kick back about a millisecond, to give the sidechain comp a bit of a head start... seems to tighten things up.
I like mechanical but i might use the track delay by a few milliseconds to give the mix a bit of room. If I have the same thing in the right side as I do in the left i might add a delay to one side to add spacial awarness.
I dont use any swing settings but i might manually move the hits into swing position. Only small changes because they can drastically change the feel.
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Re: Quantization and off-grid notes
Hepta wrote:Im a big fan of Burial's music. His off-grid placement is fucking stunning, it's not techno obiviously and his genre relies more to having a big swing, but it's very inspirational imo.
I dont want to "side-track" the thread, but... in terms of Burial, I heard/read that he uses Soundforge (which is an Audio Editor, not a DAW) and just arranges sounds along the timeline by eye and by "feel."
Re: Quantization and off-grid notes
I think Burial moved to a proper DAW eventually. You can kinda tell the old stuff is in sound forge though, the timing is loose as. Still caned a few of his tracks in House DJ sets, to a much bemused crowd.
Re: Quantization and off-grid notes
I used to do a lot in sound forge, its what i missed most when i went to mac. There is a 'acid' plugin which i used to use for it which helpfully divides the selection into 4/4 visually, so you can really easily edit in time. I never made entire tracks in it, but its not necessarily as loose to edit in as you might think.