Global Swing

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2013/08/26 23:10:09 (permalink)

Global Swing

Is there any way to do a global swing for all tracks?  I'd like to be able to hear the swing effect for the entire song while I'm changing the settings.  I know this is possible in some other DAW's.
 
Any tips or work arounds on workflow for swing on all tracks?
 
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    garrigus
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    Re: Global Swing 2013/08/27 08:43:11 (permalink)
    No, SONAR doesn't provide a global swing feature.
     
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    Re: Global Swing 2013/08/27 09:55:40 (permalink)
    How do users approach this when trying to swing multiple midi tracks all at the same value?
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    Re: Global Swing 2013/08/27 10:35:05 (permalink)
    This is one of the areas in which Sonar falls behind some other DAW's in my opinion. It should have some kind of non-destructive quantize settings to apply to a track or tracks, eg a swing knob that you can adjust during playback. There is nothing worse than coming back to a project you haven't worked on for a while, going to add some new drum parts and forgetting what swing value the rest of them are set to.

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    Re: Global Swing 2013/08/27 11:02:31 (permalink)
    For non-destructive quantizing and swing, you can add the Quantize MIDI Plug-in to the FX bin of your MIDI tracks.
     
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    Re: Global Swing 2013/08/27 11:40:56 (permalink)
    garrigus
    For non-destructive quantizing and swing, you can add the Quantize MIDI Plug-in to the FX bin of your MIDI tracks. Scott
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    Now that is something I did not know! To be honest it had slipped my mind that MIDI effects even exist.

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    Re: Global Swing 2013/08/27 11:51:37 (permalink)
    sharke
    Now that is something I did not know! To be honest it had slipped my mind that MIDI effects even exist.



    It's all in the SONAR X2 Power! book.
     
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