Swing The Grid Lines?

[filosofem]

Originally Posted by tha]-[acksaw

If I did that, then I would loose the human nature of the drum performance. I'm not looking to quantize to a grid, or a groove template or a click track or anything. I just wanted to move the 16th note grid lines to reflect a swing feel, instead of the straight ahead feel.

I wish Pro Tools had that functionality too.

[tha]-[acksaw]

Originally Posted by filosofem

I wish Pro Tools had that functionality too.

It does. I posted the explanation several times already.

[filosofem]

That is a known workaround.

[tha]-[acksaw]

Originally Posted by filosofem

That is a known workaround.

Fair enough. I just haven't found a thread where it was explained, so I wanted to share what I learned. I agree that we should get Avid to give us the real thing.

[tinace]

If you want a swing feel to line up to a grid, use a triplet feel. A swing is based on 3, it just omits one of the triplets...one is short and one is long or visa versa.

Check out this screen shot of my PT9 session. http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/...4at81455PM.png

“Inst 1” is the straight feel w/ a 16th note grid. I quantized the swing 100% and then bussed it to “Audio 5” to print the audio. Then I set my edit window grid to 1/8 (3) or triplets. To double check, I tabbed to transient and quantized to the grid and it sounded the same.

You can see how “Inst 1” and “Audio 5” only line up on 1/4 notes. The 1/8 notes in “Audio 5” are swung.