What's the opposite of quantizing?

Can I Sonar randomize the transients in an audio track.  Or the start times on a midi track?  I have a simple tambourine track, with hits on 2 and 4.  I created it by clicking notes into one measure then copying for the length of the song.  Now I wish the tambourine hits were a little less perfect, and more human.  Is there any way to command Sonar to do it?
 
Or course, it will be an easy fix to simply re-record it in real time.  But now I am curious to know if the program can do it.

Yes the Groove Q will do the trick... but I would rather perform the part live wherein not only will the timing be groovy... the velocities you can add humanly are part of the groove... so no GQ for me EVER.

:What's the opposite of quantizing?

Bapu.

Am I roight?

I guess some would say "humanising" , not to be confused with the 
human league 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0
or  humanoid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW8TCK7A0Kc

anyone got a 303  ? :)

groove quantising is still on point..

Qualtizing 

For MIDI humanizing you can use CAL scripts (Process - Run CAL)
 eg. . . randtime.cal, randnote.cal . . . which have controls for randomly adjusting midi note locations, as well as velocities.

Many years ago (93?)  I was running Pro Tools an a Mac Quadra and had a sequencer called vision. I really liked it and feature I really liked was called smear with was the opposite of quantize - really well done, you could specify if you l were going to lag or lead and by how much, and specify the amount variation. It was great for emulating the drummer getting tired at the end of a long night with the 2nd kick hit being a little late and or quiet.  Surprisingly natural. I have never seen this in another app and I really liked it. Was great for adding a live feel to a midi session, and worked in time and velocity domains.

Cheers

Grif

One option is to look at the midi source. delete everything except the first 6 measures.  That leaves you with 12 notes. 

Click on the track and the clip and then open the staff view so you can see the notes on the musical staff. This can be done from the PRV as well, but I simply find it easier in staff since it opens the note properties window with a simple right click, and everything you need is right there in one small window. 

Right click on the first note to open the note properties window. In that window, you will see, among other things, the note start time, velocity, and some other things.   Concentrate for now on start time and velocity. 

Simply edit those two parameters.... move the start time a bit forward on one note and back past the 2/4 beats by differing amounts on each of the 12 notes.  

example ... the beat is 1:2:000  ( the last number will vary from "000" to "959")   the first number is measure.... the second number is the beat, and the third is the exact position of the note in that beat...... it is the  second the third numbers you will want to edit. 

so..... 1:2:000 becomes 1:2:040     1:4:000 becomes 1:3:949   and so on   these are the beats in measure 1.


Also change the velocity within a small range on those 12 notes as well.  It will not hurt to have some velocities the same, and the start times I think you'll find can vary from small to pretty large and still sound OK. Velocity is between 0 and 127... a range of 30 should give plenty of variation in the attack. Feel free to experiment with the velocity as well as the note offset/placement. 

Small changes such as 2:000 to 2:004 are so small that they are pretty much undetectable to most people and having a few that close will still add that humanizing factor. You don't want them so far off that you can hear it and think... dang... that tambo player can't keep time at all. You want them close but not perfect. 


This method allows you to manually edit a small section of the tune and apply randomness. Now..... simply copy all 6 measures and paste it as needed to complete the song. No one listing will be able to tell the 6 measures repeat, and the beats are not perfectly on the 2 & 4 so that adds the human feel. 


hope this gives you another option.