![]() There are a few different quantize modes that may help you achieve your goal with fewer mouse clicks. The question now becomes, how much natural timing should we preserve and how much should we correct? Playing specific notes behind or ahead of the click is what creates the feel and groove. ![]() The click is a guide to maintain a relatively consistent tempo, but there is still room for interpretation. Playing a part to a click is not the same as having every note quantized, or locked, to a grid. Capturing or creating some of the timing nuances of live recordings will help breathe life into what can otherwise be static metronomic performances. When recording to a click track or creating grid-based productions in a DAW, a song’s tempo and timing are much more consistent, if not perfect. Live bands naturally speed up and slow down a song’s tempo, just as they vary the dynamics, to enhance the feel and energy of a performance. Arguably, this factor is a significant aspect of a song’s feel and groove. ![]() This resulted in slight variations of tempo throughout a song. Songs, especially before we used DAWs, were often recorded without a metronome or click track. In case you missed the meaning of the pun, what I mean is when the musical timing of a session feels stiff, let it breathe! But it is still sage advice, possibly more important in music production today than ever. Okay, I’m paraphrasing, and maybe that wasn’t exactly the original intention of McCartney’s lyric. When you find your track has timing trouble, let it breathe.
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