On 1 dec 2006, at 17.45, vinco_75 wrote: > I was wondering if we could share some tips on humanizing some > quantized parts. > > I've been using the "Humanize" option for some time now but I was > wondering if you had any > advanced tips. > > I'm mainly looking for making alive my classical scores. The generally best advice is to play parts manually into the sequencer. If you are not as good player as your composition demands simply turn down the tempo and play it slowly. One issue with this is that some sampler/synth patches have a slow attack, but this can easily be fixed by moving the entire track (all notes at the same time) to make it match the original tempo. This will work fine because the timing error coming from slow attack in an instrument patch is absolute. If you should decide to quantize it anyway, try quantizing from the Extended Regions window instead of from the Arrange Window's channel strip. This will give you much more control over the quantization process. Check out what happens if quantizing only velocity! Also explore and learn what you can do with the Transform Window (Cmd/ 4). For example, you can both compress and expand velocity or timing errors. Or change something randomly. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom