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Alternatively, you can click anywhere on the scroll bar and drag upwards or downwards
to zoom in and out of your pattern.
At any time, you can click the middle of the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to display anoth-
er part of the Pattern.
If you zoom in, you can see that some of our hits were not really accurate:
A detailed view of our live recorded Pattern: The first two kicks are late, the third one is in advance.
MASCHINE provides you with a powerful quantization feature that allows you to correct this to
the desired extent.
4.1.3.2 Quantizing the Rhythm using the Controller
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. On your
controller, do the following:
To quantize the events of your Pattern, press the
the EDIT section.
Your Pattern now plays perfectly tight. In the Pattern Editor, you can see that all events
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now are exactly on the beats or their subdivisions.
Quantizing Your Pattern, but Not Too Much
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 lets you half-quantize your events: Events are moved half way to-
ward the closest beat/subdivision. Thus, you get a tighter rhythm while keeping its human
touch and groove.
QUANTIZE button (above the jog wheel) in
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Creating Beats
Fine-tuning our First Pattern