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Midi editing: Quantization

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Emmanuel Lopez-Pinto
Emmanuel Lopez-Pinto

This document discusses quantization in MIDI editing using FL Studio. It explains that quantization is used to align recorded notes to the tempo by fixing them to the nearest timing grid. It then demonstrates how to quantize a melody recording in FL Studio, including opening a MIDI instrument, recording the melody in the piano roll, and using the quantization tool to align the notes to the tempo grid. The document ends by reflecting on how the lesson increased understanding of quantization and its parameters.

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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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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 ? 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.