THE MISSING Q FEATURE....
Hi all
I post to this forum again, hoping to gain some attention on this ever-missing logical Q feature.
In the old days, I used to work on Cubase(did clases in it..). Now working in Logic over a dekade as a fulltime producer, I still carnt figure out why the team at Apple dont think "logical"..midi-wise. There were a Q feature in Cubase called "iterative quantize". This I still hope one day will be implemented in Logic, saving ours of trimming notes.
Imagin having played an almost perfect drum-take for feks. 8 bars, but small clunshes of notes, needs to be q'ed..just a bit towards a feks. 16' grid. What you did was rubberband the notes, and hit the Q-key x-times, making the notes move towards the grid in small steps. An exstreemly intuitive, musical and FAST way to get the job done.
In Logic(pianorioll), one have the only option to engage the extended Q-parameter in the arrange-W(witout selecting the region..), set the Q-range at a % you THINK is ok, select the notes, feks. some HH notes, and press the Q button(in pianoroll). If the % was wrong, you have to do the process over again...
If you are happy with the Q you have done, you have to Q-normalize the region in order to proceed to other notes that needs tweeking...
This can take from 5 to 20 min + ....!!
With iterative Q, this would take aprox 30 sek.
Forget about cutting up the region..
First, we´re talking 1-5(or more) notes in very small spaces, in maybe 5-10 places in the region. Second, there will probably be notes in them that dont need to be Q'ed. Again, time consuming...and very un-logical.
Ok, you COULD nudge the notes, but it is NOT the same as Q, and since the best nudge-value probably would be ticks, it could be(is) again a time-consuming task.
A guess that the reason so few have mentioned this, is that so few have tryed it, hence getting used to teedius workaruonds.. :-))
Carsten, Denmark
I post to this forum again, hoping to gain some attention on this ever-missing logical Q feature.
In the old days, I used to work on Cubase(did clases in it..). Now working in Logic over a dekade as a fulltime producer, I still carnt figure out why the team at Apple dont think "logical"..midi-wise. There were a Q feature in Cubase called "iterative quantize". This I still hope one day will be implemented in Logic, saving ours of trimming notes.
Imagin having played an almost perfect drum-take for feks. 8 bars, but small clunshes of notes, needs to be q'ed..just a bit towards a feks. 16' grid. What you did was rubberband the notes, and hit the Q-key x-times, making the notes move towards the grid in small steps. An exstreemly intuitive, musical and FAST way to get the job done.
In Logic(pianorioll), one have the only option to engage the extended Q-parameter in the arrange-W(witout selecting the region..), set the Q-range at a % you THINK is ok, select the notes, feks. some HH notes, and press the Q button(in pianoroll). If the % was wrong, you have to do the process over again...
If you are happy with the Q you have done, you have to Q-normalize the region in order to proceed to other notes that needs tweeking...
This can take from 5 to 20 min + ....!!
With iterative Q, this would take aprox 30 sek.
Forget about cutting up the region..
First, we´re talking 1-5(or more) notes in very small spaces, in maybe 5-10 places in the region. Second, there will probably be notes in them that dont need to be Q'ed. Again, time consuming...and very un-logical.
Ok, you COULD nudge the notes, but it is NOT the same as Q, and since the best nudge-value probably would be ticks, it could be(is) again a time-consuming task.
A guess that the reason so few have mentioned this, is that so few have tryed it, hence getting used to teedius workaruonds.. :-))
Carsten, Denmark
G5 Quad 2.2 Intel, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
