Quantizing Your Pattern - Native Instruments Maschine Jam Manual

6.4.1

Quantizing Your Pattern

The process of quantization (sometimes called "note snap") consists of forcing events to stick
to the beats or to their subdivisions. This ensures that the rhythm is perfectly tight.
To quantize a Pattern:
Press SHIFT + QUANT.
►
+
Your Pattern now plays perfectly tight. In the Pattern Editor, you can hear that all events
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now are exactly on the beats or their subdivisions.
Adding Half Quantization
Sometimes, having beats perfectly tight might sound too "mechanical" and dull. Indeed, the
groove often comes from all these little imperfections in the rhythm. Hence, to avoid losing the
Pattern's groove, MASCHINE JAM allows you to half-quantize your events: Events are moved
half way toward the closest beat/subdivision. Therefore, you get a tighter rhythm while keeping
its human touch and groove.
To half-quantize the events of your Pattern, press
►
+
You can apply half quantization several times in a row: Each time, events will move half
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of the remaining way to the beats/subdivisions.
SHIFT + QUANT 50%.
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Recording and Editing Patterns
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