How Do U .......................

Rowland Samuel

Swing / Shuffle the beat on Cubase so the track sounds much skippier and less House / US G (eg. Ol skool sounding UK G stuff - i kno some up to date tracks still have the swing in em tho')

I've got a 4/4 track i'm fixing up now and it sounds v.good but it sounds more housey than UK G so please help guys !!

lady-j

use logic because cubase's quanitsations and swings are naff and mathmatical... i swear cubase was written for tekno heads or sommit.

paulyc

functions: quantizing type

functions: groove control

Sen

or you can do what i do and swing everything by hand...

I add shuffle, then play around for hours making the beats just right.

DJ Fat Zed

A great way to do it is using recycle.

Get a beat that you like the groove of in recycle and go into preview toggle mode and get the slice points just right. Export the midi file required to play the samples for the loop. Then import that midifile into cubase and extract a groove template from it.

You can do the same in logic and DP I think.

It's sometimes known as the Stevie Wonder effect because Jamiroquai used to take stevie wonder riffs and use this technique to apply his playing feel to their own stuff. I think it even went to court over copyrights.