Thursday, December 13, 2007

How to swing

Here's a little tip on getting your swing to sound right in Ableton Live. make sure all your clips are set to the same groove setting! If they aren't, your swing will sound wonky. If you want to set a bunch of clips to the same groove just drag a select box around everything on the clip view and you'll get a clip properties box below where you can apply the groove across all selected clips.

I actually like using swing 16 on most songs so I set this in my global preferences and now all new sets I create default to that setting.

By the way, there is no ideal global groove amount, just play with it till you like it. That said, I keep ending up at 64 to get that Kompakt-like micro house swing.

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