Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs — Song Creator

Editing a Recorded Song

Whether you’ve recorded a song using Quick Recording, Multi Recording, or Step Recording, you can use the editing features to change the song data.

Editing Channel-related Parameters — Channel

Calling up the operations here apply to step 4 on page 96. To call up the display shown below, use the [BACK]/[NEXT] buttons.

Quantize

Quantize lets you “clean up” or tighten the timing of a previously recorded channel. For example, the following musical passage has been written with exact quarter-note and eighth-note values.

Even though you think you may have recorded the passage accurately, your actual performance may be slightly ahead of or behind the beat. Quantize allows you to align all the notes in a channel so that the timing is absolutely accurate to the specified note value (see below).

Use this to select the desired edit operation.

Executes the Quantize operation. After the operation is completed, this button changes to [UNDO], letting you restore the original data if you’re not satisfied with the Quantize results. The Undo function only has one level; only the previous operation can be undone.

Selects the desired channel to be quantized.

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Calls up the SONG display, from which you can save the edited data.

Determines how strongly the notes will be quantized. If a value less than 100% is selected, notes will be moved toward the specified quantization beats only by the specified amount. Applying less than 100% quantization lets you preserve some of the “human” feel in the recording.

Selects the quantize size (resolution). See the below for the details.

■About Quantize Size

Set the Quantize size to correspond to the smallest notes in the channel you are working with. For example, if the data was recorded with both quarter notes and eighth notes, use 1/8 note for the Quantize size. If you apply a 1/4 note Quantize size, the eighth notes would be moved on top of the quarter notes.

One measure of eighth notes before quantization

After 1/8 note quantization

Quantize Size

1/4 note

1/8 note

1/16 note

1/32 note

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1/8 note triplet *

1/4 note triplet

1/8 note triplet

1/16 note triplet

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1/8 note triplet *

1/16 note triplet *

The three Quantize settings marked with asterisks (*) are exceptionally convenient, since they allow you to quantize two different note values at the same time, without compromising the quantization of either one. For example, if you have both straight 1/8 notes and 1/8 note triplets recorded to the same channel, and you quantize to straight 1/8 notes, all notes in the channel are quantized to straight 1/8 notes — completely eliminating any triplet feel in the rhythm. However, if you use the 1/8 note + 1/8 note triplet setting, both the straight and triplet notes will be quantized correctly.

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