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MIDI editing: Quantization 
Emmanuel López-Pinto
Introduction 
 With this presentation I’m going to show you how to quantize a midi recording using FL 
Studio 10. Quantization is used to time recorded notes in the right place as our 
performance can’t be completely accurate. This lesson belongs to week 2 of Introduction 
to music production at coursera.org .
Midi Instrument 
ï‚š To be able to quantize our 
midi recording, we need to 
open a new instrument or 
sound coming from a 
synthesizer or plugin. In this 
case I’m going to use 
Nexus. In the picture you 
can see how to open any 
of our plugins in FL.
Midi Instrument 
ï‚š There is a lot of presets to 
use. I will just use the first 
one as it is a simple melody 
what I want to do. This 
lesson can be done with 
any other plugin.
Piano Roll 
 Now it’s time record the 
melody. We have to open 
the piano roll, click in the 
record button (next to 
play and pause) and just 
play the melody on our 
MIDI device or PC 
keyboard. My result was 
this sound.
Quantization 
ï‚š Once the recording is done, I 
pressed ALT+Q to open the 
quantizer. We can see that notes 
now are fixed in the tempo lines. 
Sometimes the quantizer doesn’t 
give us the results we need so 
we can play with some settings 
like sensitivity knob to look for our 
goal melody. Now the melody 
sound like this.
Reflection 
ï‚š I always preferred to use my mouse to create the perfect timed melody so I was never 
really aware about how quantization works. I knew about it but just preferred to use my 
mouse. With this lesson now I know more about quantization and its parameters.

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Midi editing: Quantization

  • 1. MIDI editing: Quantization Emmanuel López-Pinto
  • 2. Introduction ï‚š With this presentation I’m going to show you how to quantize a midi recording using FL Studio 10. Quantization is used to time recorded notes in the right place as our performance can’t be completely accurate. This lesson belongs to week 2 of Introduction to music production at coursera.org .
  • 3. Midi Instrument ï‚š To be able to quantize our midi recording, we need to open a new instrument or sound coming from a synthesizer or plugin. In this case I’m going to use Nexus. In the picture you can see how to open any of our plugins in FL.
  • 4. Midi Instrument ï‚š There is a lot of presets to use. I will just use the first one as it is a simple melody what I want to do. This lesson can be done with any other plugin.
  • 5. Piano Roll ï‚š Now it’s time record the melody. We have to open the piano roll, click in the record button (next to play and pause) and just play the melody on our MIDI device or PC keyboard. My result was this sound.
  • 6. Quantization ï‚š Once the recording is done, I pressed ALT+Q to open the quantizer. We can see that notes now are fixed in the tempo lines. Sometimes the quantizer doesn’t give us the results we need so we can play with some settings like sensitivity knob to look for our goal melody. Now the melody sound like this.
  • 7. Reflection ï‚š I always preferred to use my mouse to create the perfect timed melody so I was never really aware about how quantization works. I knew about it but just preferred to use my mouse. With this lesson now I know more about quantization and its parameters.