Hey guys,
I found a strange behavior in my cubase project that I can’t explain. I have MIDI events inside a MIDI part, and I quantize them using 1/4 note grid preset. Everything works as expected, the notes snap to the nearest 1/4 note when I press Q.
Now, if I switch the quantize preset to 1/8 note and press Q again, I expect the notes to stay in place since they’re already aligned to the 1/4 grid, which is also part of the 1/8 grid. but, instead of staying put, the notes move forward to the second 1/8 note of the beat.
I don’t understand why this happens. Is this normal behavior, or is it a bug? Or something misconfigured in my settings which I m not aware of ?
Yes, I have tried this, but only happens what you say when the original notes (before any quantizing) were closer to the second 1/8 of the beat than to the preceeding 1/4.
Seems normal behavior to me.
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Thanks for the response. So when I quantize, Cubase keeps the original unquantized note as the reference, which explains why requantizing shifts the notes based on the original position rather than the last quantized one. I assumed it would work differently because I was used to another DAW for
years and that behaved that way, but Cubase always surprises me with its level of detail. I was thinking to myself if there is a way to lock in the quantized position as the new reference, and I found that ‘Freeze MIDI Quantize’ shortuct does exactly that. I mean once frozen, the adjusted notes become the new starting point for future quantization. Didn’t realize how Cubase handled this before, but now it makes sense.
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Yes, it works that way.
I think it is quite practical.