In the score editor I sometimes need to change the “syncopation” option. I usually use the “relax” setting because it doesn’t tie so many notes and looks more modern. However, If I quantize my midi using the “swing” function it nulls this setting and Cubase brings in the ties again. How can I keep my “relax” setting and still quantize my midi the way I want using the swing setting?
(I notice that if i deactivate “shuffle” in the score settings dialog box, it does respect the tie setting but then it puts each swung 8th note under a bracket so it is no good)
In this pic I am currently using the swing at 100% in my quantize settings and in my score settings I have “shuffle” activated so it doesn’t show brackets for every 8th note. That is fine, However, I don’t like the ties across the first beat. The relax setting should not look like this and the second note should be displayed as a quarter note not a tied 8th note.
Those three 8th notes I circled in red are wrong. They should be quarter note triplets. Can you please tell me what settings I need to change to achieve this?
Thank you. I have read it. In that manual it says that Auto quantize is used when you have mixed straight notes with triplets. You are saying to use the quantize tool. Isn’t “auto quantize” supposed to do this?
You are not showing what the start and end times are for the notes, which does matter. Are the Quarter triplets quantized to Length and start position? They probably have to be.
Also, if you have 8th notes set for the display q in score settings, I think using Shuffle is not necessary. Do you find that that’s the case in your projects?
They are totally quantized to the grid. Those three triplet quarters should come out as three quarter notes with a bracket and 3 on top. I don’t mind using the quantize tool but thought that there might be a way without the extra step since what I am doing is very standard.
I suspect that you have deleted the triplet symbol attached to those notes.
In this case, select the three notes and the rest in the Score Editor, then apply N-Tuplets to them (again), using the following settings: Type 3, over 4/8 and hit “Quantize”.
Thanks Maestro, I never used the N-tuplets feature but I gave it a go and it did work. However, it was not necessary, I got it to work with the “Auto quantize” which also should work since my triplets were quantized perfectly. Going back to the original OP the reason I think that my “Relax” syncopation was not working is because it is incompatible with “Auto Quantize”. You can use “Auto quantize” but only if you are ok with having very rigid syncopation in your score else the solution as you have pointed out is to use seperate quantize values for the section only and not use “Auto quantize”. Please tell me if you disagree.
