Feel

Feel moves notes a little around the grid and changes their strength. Swing and groove push notes late in a repeating pattern. Humanize adds small random changes to timing and velocity.

Open it from Params with RIGHT, or hold EDIT and tap pad 42 in the picker.

Tap Swing (1), then value pad 43 (2) to set swing 54.

Settings

Setting Step pad Default Values
Swing 82 50 (straight) 50 to 75
Groove 87 or 88 Global Global, or one of nine templates
Humanize timing 75 or 76 0 (off) 0 to 6 ticks
Humanize velocity 63 or 64 0 (off) 0 to 40

Swing

Swing delays every second step by part of the step length. 50 is straight, 66 is close to a triplet feel and 75 is a hard shuffle.

Value pads: 41 = 50, 42 = 52, 43 = 54, 44 = 56, 45 = 58, 46 = 60, 47 = 62, 48 = 64, 31 = 66, 32 = 68, 33 = 70, 34 = 71, 35 = 72, 36 = 73, 37 = 74, 38 = 75.

The track’s swing adds to the global swing (Global > Settings, option 11, step pad 64): effective swing = 50 + (track - 50) + (global - 50), kept between 50 and 75.

Groove

A groove is a repeating timing and velocity pattern that runs across the steps, added on top of swing. It is written for a 6-tick step and scales with the track’s speed.

Value pads: 41 = Global (use the global groove), 42 = Straight, 43 = MPC 54, 44 = MPC 58, 45 = MPC 62, 46 = MPC 66, 47 = Laid back, 48 = Rushed hats, 31 = 12/8 shuffle, 32 = Drunk.

The global groove is set on Global > Settings, option 12, step pad 66. Tracks left on Global use it.

Humanize

Humanize timing (step pad 75 or 76) gives each note a random delay of up to the chosen number of ticks. Value pads 41 to 47 are 0 to 6 ticks. Pads 48 and 31 to 38 do nothing.

Humanize velocity (step pad 63 or 64) gives each note a random change of plus or minus the chosen amount. Value pads: 41 = 0, 42 = 3, 43 = 5, 44 = 8, 45 = 11, 46 = 13, 47 = 16, 48 = 19, 31 = 21, 32 = 24, 33 = 27, 34 = 29, 35 = 32, 36 = 35, 37 = 37, 38 = 40.

The random change is not stored in the pattern. A note is never moved before its own step position, so on straight steps humanize only ever makes notes later.

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