Yamaha QY700 Owner's Manual - Page 144

3. Quantizing value • The Quantize setting selects the quantizing interval. You can set the value using n/y or the data dial, or by pressing the appropriate note key on the numeric keypad. • Notice that the settings create both "normal" and "triplet" intervals over the same space. The , for example, sets quantizing lines at every eighth-note spacing and at every eighth-note-triplet spacing. 0101 1101 32nd-note intervals 16th-triplet intervals 16th-note intervals 8th-triplet intervals 8th-note intervals Quarter-note-triplet intervals Quarter-note intervals 16th-note and 16th-triplet intervals 8th-note and 8th-triplet intervals 4. Strength • The Strength value sets the degree by which note events are pulled toward the nearest quantizing line. • A setting of 100% pulls each note event all the way to the nearest quantizing line. A setting of 50% pulls each note only halfway to the nearest quantizing line. Original data (assuming 4/4 meter) Quantizing strength = 100% (where quantize value = ) Quantizing strength = 50% (where quantize value = ) 7. Song Jobs a 16th-note to either side of the line are shifted, while notes that are farther away are left untouched. • You use the negative values when you want to shift only notes that are farthest away from the line. A sensitivity of -50%, for example, applies quantizing to the notes in the far 1/4-interval to the left and the far 1/4-interval to the right. Assuming a "quarter-note" quantizing value, this would quantize all notes that are more than a 16th-note away from the quantizing line, while leaving closer notes unaffected. Quantizing line 100% 100% 70 50 30 30 50 70 2 Sensitivity = +100% Sensitivity = +50% Sensitivity = +30% Sensitivity = -30% Sensitivity = -50% Sensitivity = -100% Time length of Quantize value 0101 1101 -100%,...,+000%,...,+100% • Use of the feature allows you to correct notes that are markedly off time while retaining the more subtle discrepancies characteristic of an authentic performance. To achieve this kind of result, you would generally want to set the sensitivity between approximately -30% and -50%. 0101 1101 000%,...,100% 5. Sensitivity • You can use the Sensitivity setting to limit quantization to only those notes that are at a certain distance from the quantizing line. You can choose, for example, to quantize only those notes that are close to the nearest quantizing line, or only those notes that are far away. • The full quantizing range extends from 1/2 interval to the left through 1/2 interval to the right of the quantizing line. (See figure below.) If you were to apply quantizing at 100% sensitivity and 100% strength, for example, then all notes over this range would be pulled exactly onto the quantizing line. • If you set Sensitivity to 100% (or -100%), then all notes within the range are pulled toward the quantizing line. If you set the value to 50%, then quantizing applies only to the notes in the half-interval span surrounding the line (starting 1/4-interval to the left of the line, and extending to 1/4interval to the right). If you use 50% sensitivity with a "quarter-note" quantizing value, for example, then all notes within Chapter 2. SONG MODE 143