Input Quantize - E-Mu MP-7 command station Owner's Manual

Input Quantize

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Input quantize corrects your timing and places notes exactly on the note
value of your choice. You can choose any of the following note values:
quarter notes, quarter note triplets, 8th notes, 8th note triplets, 16th notes,
16th note triplets, 32nd notes, 32nd note triplets, 64th notes, 128th notes
and 64th note triplets.
The illustration below shows one measure of 4/4 music (there are four
quarter notes, 8 eighth notes, and 16 sixteenth notes in a measure of 4/4).
Suppose you wanted to record a bass drum beat on every quarter note. The
upper row of dots in the diagram below shows where you might have
played the four drum beats. The lower row of dots shows what happens
when Input Quantize is set to eighth note resolution. Each beat is now
moved to the nearest eighth note.
Eighth Note Input Quantize
In the next example we'll set Input Quantize to sixteenth note resolution.
In this example the beats you played have been assigned to the nearest
sixteenth note, which works on beats 3 & 4, but not on 1 & 2.
Sixteenth Note Input Quantize
This brings up an important point.
Use the Lowest Quantization value needed.
If you're recording a simple snare backbeat, there's no point in using higher
quantization than eighth notes. To record something more complex, use a
finer resolution such as sixteenth or thirty-second notes.
You can change the Input Quantize setting in Pattern mode whether the
MP-7 is running or stopped, recording or not. You can also use different
resolutions on the same part. Use low resolution to record most of the part,
then switch to a finer resolution to add complexity.
Sequencer
Pattern Mode
1
4
1
8
1
16
What you play
Beats fall on
What you play
Beats fall on