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Why is quantization strength so seldom on iOS?
As producer and musician I really value tools for quantization. I use them all the time. But at the same time as a producer and musician I want to keep the natural feel of my original midi takes.
Logic Pro has a quantization strength option to interpolate the hard quantized notes. In iOS apps we can hardly find a feature like this.
The only apps that come to my mind are are Nanostudio 2 and Atom Piano Roll. And even in those quantization strength cannot be configured as a standard for record or playback.
Would love to see it in all the other midi apps.
I wonder why is quantization strength so seldom on iOS?
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I agree, it should be standard for DAWs.
Mozaic could technically provide "quantization strength configured as a standard for record or playback" and it would just output with a one bar delay. I'll probably just import things into Nanostudio 2 for now though.
Auria is very good for this and it can be done non-destructively.
Quantization as a batch processing job is easy for IOS but realtime shifting in reference to a MIDI Clock assumes a realtime operating system. IOS isn't that but it get better as the new processors provide more instructions per second to do the work and be assured of extra cycles to manage an incoming event.
iPads and iPhones do not have the capacities of computer chips with their multi-function systems (math co-processors, memory management chips, multi-level caches to feed instruction pipelines, and I/O busses with graphics cards, audio cards/chips, etc).
A Laptop with Logic Pro X can be set up with 600+GB of ram and manage hundreds of audio tracks and people want Logic on iPads. It would need to drop some functionality in the port and every AUv3 would need to be re-hosted for the change in processors.
@McD I think that the OP would be perfectly fine with an offline quantization strength adjustment.
For quantizing off-grid, I've used Genome Midi for a long time.
It's not exactly quantization strength but rather a list of groove quantization templates to choose from or to build your own. Take one recorded pattern as a groove grid and apply it to others.
Other than that, I agree with @Skyblazer, Nanostudio 2 is doing a great job.
OK. Then I don't think it's neglected is it? Does Xequence do it?
No. For now, NS2 is my gold standard for editing MIDI files.
All other apps more or less failed when I had to edit the challenging MIDI tracks from @LinearLineman. Only the best for the best 😁
Zenbeats has quantize strength for editing.
Just add that “Swing” thingamabobby like on Lumbeats. Problem solved😳🤔🥳
People show up periodically to vent about the features on desktops that we don't have on
IOS. I like to vent about them showing up and stating the obvious.
Reason released a "String Modeling Synth" and it can make you cry. But in X years we'll have
similar tools on IOS. X varies and might be smaller with time. I wonder if we could mine the forum for complaints in 2015 and see what we got by being patient and avoiding desktop
products.
I suspect you could easily export any MIDI file from a desktop to IOS using AirDrop, WebDav, network drives, iCloud, DropBox, etc. How many of those did we get in the last 5 years, I wonder.
you're right. 'neglected' implies a rather complaining intention. so i changed the title of the post.
Non-Destructive quantize is something I miss in most iOS apps.
It makes it easy to try different settings without messing withe originally recorded events or go back and change things and try different settings.
Even though GarageBand gets some slack from time to time it’s quantize is among the best on iOS.
Logic had non destructive quantise strength and other parameters in v1. Which ran on Mac OS9. It was still called Notator Logic then.
I ran Notator logic on a Mac Classic. It had an 8Mhz Motorola 68000. 1MB RAM. Notator Logic v1 also ran on an Atari ST.
The non destructive parameters in logic were one of the main things that tempted me to switch from Opcode Vision. It was hard to go back, even though Logic v1.1 was, to say the least, the ugliest software I’d ever used on my Mac. 27 years later and it’s still my main sequencer.
Auria has realtime non-destructive quantize which includes strength.
I really love NS2 but the destructive swing and quantize are a big weakness IMO. Auria handles this much better.
+1
It would be much better indeed if at least there was a live preview for the current quantization amount. As of now it's just set, undo, change, undo, change, undo...
I wish all the MIDI parameters such as transpose, gate length and quantise were non-destructive and easily accessed for real-time adjustments on multiple regions/tracks/notes/objects simultaneously.
There is a visual preview, but not an audio one:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghr8ddcxj7i2chu/NS2 quantise preview.mp4?dl=0
I agree, a big thing missing in most iOS DAWs. Not only that but also a lot more different musical quantization options like different swing options and tuplets and so on.
Auria does this pretty well, NS2 could definitely learn a thing or two from this: