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> The Steely Dan people were notoriously obsessive about drum timing, which was a bad thing to be when all you had were human drummers. The irony to this is to
by H1Supreme 6y ago
> The Steely Dan people were notoriously obsessive about drum timing, which was a bad thing to be when all you had were human drummers.
The irony to this is today's drumming plugins add variance to sounds and timing to make the recordings sound more "human".
- golergka 6y agoThat depends on the genre, just as before. With house, hip-hop (most of it anyway) or any other style with funky, playful atmosphere, you want swing in your patterns. With techno, synth pop, post-punk, or any of many other styles that have robotic, cold aesthetic, you want drums programmed straight to the grid, and often without any sincopation in the patterns, too.
- sneak 6y agoThe swing that you are describing, and the jitter (“variance”) that GP is describing are different things. :)
- httpsterio 6y agoYep, swing is still always within the same timing window and doesn't fluctuate. I mean yeah your 8th note repeating midi hihats with swing won't hit the beat with a perfect precision but the interval between the notes will still remain the same. Beats with swing can still sound mechanic. The humanizing features OP mentions (like what Ableton live has) introduces random amounts of shifting timings or velocity, which is very different. If you want swing, you'll still have to add that separately.