Cactus Music

I use that all the time... Guess that makes me a bad person......

Good Day, 
 
Craig left some tips last Friday on doing so with the Step Sequencer, also Sonars midi processing effects may help a bit, Quantize and Velocity allow for random variations to be applied to these parameters on an existing midi file.
 
Cheers
  

JohnEgan
Good Day, 
 
Craig left some tips last Friday on doing so with the Step Sequencer, also Sonars midi processing effects may help a bit, Quantize and Velocity allow for random variations to be applied to these parameters on an existing midi file.
 
Cheers
  

The thing is, a human player (at least a good one) does not just interject random timing or velocity variations into his/her playing.  The variations are predictable and serve a purpose.
 
Timing will be off the grid, but probably biased to being early or late depending on the rhythm of the song.
 
Velocity will vary within a pattern to accent certain notes on certain beats.

dwardzala
The thing is, a human player (at least a good one) does not just interject random timing or velocity variations into his/her playing.  

Id agree, there's no substitute for a good musician, (almost sounds like an oxymoron,  lol), key word being "good", sadly Im probably more often trying to un-humanize things, LOL.
 
I guess I should have said they do also allow some measured degrees variation.
 
Cheers 

You could use nudge for finer timing.  I haven't tried to use it yet, but II know about it because on the training tape I'm using to learn Cakewalk, they talk about that.  First I hide all the tracks I'm not intrested in by using H which brings up the track manager.  Then I can use snap and nudge which I'm still writing my part so I am not ready to use those yet.  But I know about them.  Does Cakewalk do Quintiplets?  Thanks in advance.