4.1.7. Swing
The Swing setting can change the rhythmic relationship between the first note of a pair and
the second note. To experiment with this, start a pattern and turn the Swing encoder to a
value between 50 and 75.
Assuming the time division is set to 1/8, here’s what will happen:
• With Swing set to 50% each note gets ‘equal time’, resulting in a ‘straight 1/8th
note’ feel.
• As the Swing value exceeds 50% the first 1/8th note is not affected and the
second note is played later. You’ll notice the sequence starts to ‘shuffle’ a bit and
perhaps sounds less ‘mechanical’ to your ear.
• The maximum Swing setting is 75%, at which point the 1/8th notes sound more
like a 1/16th note figure than ‘shuffled’ 1/8th notes.
Here’s a graphic showing the minimum and maximum Swing values in musical notation:
4.1.7.1. Current Track button
The Current Track button enables each instrument to have its own Swing setting. After you
press that button, changes to the swing percentage will affect only the current instrument.
Then you can select the other instruments and edit their Swing settings also.
If the current instrument does not have its Current Track button lit and the Swing encoder
is turned, the Swing percentage becomes a “Global edit” for the entire pattern. Instruments
that previously had no Swing value will begin to swing, and instruments with the Current
Track button enabled will have their swing amount increased by the change in the Global
value.
In other words, if the Global value goes from 50 to 52, a Current Track value of 63 will rise
to 65.
Here is some information to remember about how the pattern Swing value and the Current
Track swing values interact:
• The maximum possible swing value is 75, so an instrument’s Current Track swing
value amount will never rise above that.
• The minimum swing value for an individual instrument track cannot be a lower
value than the overall Swing value for the pattern.
The MIDI Control Center can be used to set Swing % values for all instruments and the
pattern as well. See
section [p.67]
for information about these parameters.
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