Awoke a bit early this morning and decided to fire up the “studio.”
Found where after-recording quantization hides in Ableton Live. I selected a midi track and clicked the “Groove” icon. It lists other things than quantization, but I’ll experiment with them another day.
You can choose quarter, eighth, 16th or 32nd note quantization (all are not available in some instances – & there are the same selections with a ‘T’ appended, don’t know what that means). I quantized the 3 midi tracks – cymbal, bass drum and piano. I think it is better, but I need to be more in time from the get-go.
Here’s the result:
The T mean triplets.
Here are my thoughts and I realize this is “your” song not mine….so take them or leave them…I understand.
I keep hearing a slightly faster tempo on this one with a stronger steady quarter note downbeat. This, I believe, will allow you to open up and vocally relax a bit more (have more fun with this). I believe this will more naturally enable you to synch in with that tight downbeat and explore subtle vocal rhythm variations that feel right to you. There are other things I could show you given opportunity that would enable to get around some of the learning hurdles on the equipment stuff. I went through many mine fields and still do. Good Luck and I think if you look back you will see you have made great progress since starting this journey from ground zero several months ago.
Oh, I’ll take ’em! Don’t know if I’m ready for triplets, maybe twins.
I would like to do a bit of a download at some point as I aspire to make this all exponentially more professional sounding.
Thanks Dave!
-Ed-debted