Topic: Preview 2.27: Adjust timing

@michi_mak wrote:

this window looks very promising – maybe it lacks an entry for adjusting velocities?

I considered a single big dialog with controls for adjusting all note event properties, like velocity and transpostion. There would then be similar dialogs for sound events and automation point events, with controls for adjusting fade curve etc. I felt the dialogs became too big, so I decided to split out all timing related adjustments into this dialog. In a later release I’ll add the adjust dialogs for the other event properties, including velocity.

any plans on providing ‘direct access’ shortcuts ( like adjusting swing amount once and then only performing swing without bringing up this window everytime? )?

I’ve thought about it, but it may come in a later release. After I implement the other adjust dialogs, I plan to make a preset system for the adjustments. You’ll be able to create presets named “Swing 5%”, “Quantize 1/8 20%”, “Set 10 ms fade-in”, etc. and be able to apply them through key shortcuts.

@kyran wrote:

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

2. Custom grids, as FL Studio. You can load any midi file in quantizer tool and it will work as a grid (and velocities). Take a look to its help file: http://flstudio.image-line.com/help/html/pianoroll_qnt.htm

I like that FL feature a lot. Interface wise you could replace the first editor box (where you select the grid snap) with a selector for the midi file containing the snap grid.

What I had in mind was to add an “Extract groove from clipboard events” option, either as a new checkbox option or as an entry in the grid combobox. This is simpler, and also a bit more flexible. You could for example: Beat slice a drumloop sound on a track, press Ctrl+C to copy the events, undo the beat slice command, open the piano-roll, select the note events, select “Adjust timing” and use the “extract groove…” option to apply the timing of the drumloop to the MIDI events.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

I’d say that a MIDI file is more flexible, because you can save it (for a future use), exchange it with other users, edit it easily (timming and velocities!), and you can extract a groove using any third party vst slicer or audio editor

You can also do that with the solution I suggested. To create a groove file, just export the note sequence to a MIDI file. To apply a groove, drag the MIDI file onto a track, copy the note events to the clipboard, delete the sequence event again, and use the adjust timing dialog. I could remove a couple of those steps, by adding a “Copy events to clipboard” command when you right-click a MIDI file in the browser.