Quantize - timing correction in Sonar (and other DAWs)

Quantize - This is an "in depth" study on quantize. It might be a new word for some but it has been around since the early days of MIDI. Quantize means "correction of timing" and makes it very easy and convenient to correct timing of MIDI performances after the recording is finished.
I never thought I would do a video about quantize. To me, it seems so simple but I keep hearing people recording music out of time so I hope I can shed some light on this topic. Feel free to leave a comment or private message me for more tips and tricks using DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) . . . Especially Cakewalk Sonar (the very best out there)
Dwight - aka dustypuppy

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[Sweeper5]

I always have trouble when I try to quantize my "manually played" midi drum tracks (played via a midi controller). It seems that no matter what I choose (16th, 32nd, 16th triplet, etc.)...it never seems to make everything come out in the track as yours did here. It usually works great on the really straight beats, but for it does weird things to the kick drum unless they are very "straight beats" if you know what i mean? Any advice or help on that would be appreciated!

[dustypuppy]

@Sweeper5

Yes, I know what you mean. First of all, your drumming needs to be done along with the metronome so the whole performance is on the grid.

Next, its best to select the lowest quantize that works with your beat, and then the result will depend on how close to the beat it was played. If a note is early or late by a big enough margin, quantize will slide it to the "nearest" beat which can often be the wrong one.

I hope this helps.

[oo7jw]

will cakewalk sonar allow you to quantize as you did it in this video if you had recorded a live drummer with microphones? or does the track have to be a midi controlled track from the software?

john

ps great video, very helpful

[dustypuppy]

Hi John

This only deals with quantizing MIDI

But you can also do some amazing edits on timing of audio with SONAR - using V-Vocal and AudioSnap - or by simply cutting and sliding parts around manually :)

[Sgipon]

You da mAN!! : ) thanks for all the teaching,,

[TheDanceofjoy]

Good teacher.

[juannieville]

This helped so much. Very good teacher..Plan to watch some more vids..thnx!

[leelabovitz]

Thanks for a great tutorial. It really helped.

[lecheenpolvo]

excellent videos!!! You help me a lot!!! Thanks!

[TheSoofi]

thanks, this really help.