How to I quantize ?

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#1

Hi,

The first thoughts you may have regarding the subject is “this dude is a fool”.
Because quantizing in simple and kindly documented here : http://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/quantize-midi/

Here is the full story :
A played a few days with the Linux demo and I was able to quantize properly
I was very happy so I decided to purchase and install version 5.10.
But now I can’t succeed in quantizing properly.
Here are the steps I’m following.

  • Start from a fresh project (TS: 4/4; grid 1/4)
  • Create one midi track
  • Add 16 notes at every 1/4 step (quantifying will be obviously useless but this is for the demo)
  • Right clip on region and select MIDI > Quantify, 1/4 + note start + note end

And what happens ?
It does not quantize at 1/4 but at full step (1/1)
It does this whatever the division I choose.
It tried to play with the grid but it has no more effect.
What I’m missing ?

#2

It was a bug. Ardour looked for a “/4” or “/8” in the text-string and if none was found used “1 beat”.
That also worked with most translations, or most translators took care of keeping the slash+number suffix.

#3

I just enforced the language to English and guess what ? Now it works !
It sounds effectively as a bug.
On my side I can leave with the English version.
@x42 thanks for the suggestion.

#4

Sorry : “I can live with the English version”

#5

It has been fixed in git to work with all languages.

#6

If I quantize the quarter notes with:

  • note start + note end, then starts are quantized to full notes, durations stay 1/4
  • note start only, then result is same as previous
  • note end only, then ends are quantized to 1/4 notes, durations are changed to full notes
#7

I just tried out the new 5.11.0 version.
Same problem.

#8

I can’t help, new to all of this, especially Ardoir,
strange no to hear from the developer regarding this,
for he would certainly know the answer.

#9

Is this perhaps with the French version of Ardour? ie the dropdown does not say “Beats/4” but “Quart de temps” ?

#10

This may or may not be a bug; I’ve experienced a similar problem once where enabling quantization for the note end/note off resulted in a bunch of whole notes, regardless of what the grid size was actually set to. Do you have the same issue if you only quantize note on/note start?