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Smart Quantize

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SMART QUANTIZE

Traditional quantizing asks you to know the grid before you fix the take. Smart Quantize listens to your MIDI take, figures out the grid and swing you were playing to, and tightens the timing without flattening the feel.

WHAT SMART QUANTIZE DOES

  • Automatic grid detection — chooses 1/4, 1/8, or 1/16 (straight or triplet) based on what fits your take best. A sloppy eighth-note take no longer gets misread as quarter notes.

  • Automatic swing detection — estimates the swing percentage of your performance and applies it, so a swung take stays swung.

  • Keeps flams, rolled chords, and strums together — notes played close together move as a group instead of being slammed onto the grid individually. The loudest note in the cluster snaps to the beat; the others keep their offset relative to it.

  • Works on notes, chord blobs, or both — select a mix and Mixcraft finds one groove for everything.

USING SMART QUANTIZE

Open the MIDI Quantize dialog (from the piano roll right-click menu or the MIDI Editing submenu) and choose Smart — it's the default. A live blue panel in the dialog shows the detected grid and swing as you change settings, so you can see what Mixcraft heard before you commit.

SMART QUANTIZE AT RECORD TIME

You can also apply Smart Quantize the moment you stop recording: choose Smart in the per-track Automatic Quantization menu. The record-time default remains Off, so recorded takes are untouched unless you opt in.