[RWP] Help With Quantizing Please?

[Indigo]

I just did that, Patrick.
I selected the item, pressed ctrl+enter, which takes me to the midi 
editor, then I went to edit, Item Processing, or Process Item, whatever 
it's name is, then arrow down past normalize, etcetera to Quantize to 
Grid, same place I've been going.
I selected eighth notes, checked stretch note length to fit, same as 
before, click on process.
Same zero results, the item is ragged as before.
I then undid that quantization, selected the item again, in the midi 
editor, and selected to quantize to the entire measure.
If quantization is working, you'll surely hear that, right?
Same result, the track still has its eighth and sixteenth notes, which 
should have all been smeared across  the measure, unrecognizable, right?
At least that's the kind of result I've gotten from other programs that 
quantize.
In the Process Item menu I do find some of the midi quantization options 
I read about in standard Reaper, including Humanize, which is allow a 
little variation of timing, not one hundred percent, but I didn't find 
Freeze Quantization, which locks in your quantization, according to the 
Cockos Wiki on midi quantize.
I hope Ivan hasn't left out something essential.

I have edited individual events in midi edit with success, so that part 
of midi editing works.
When I have selected the item, then ctrl+enter to go to midi edit, I do 
find the word notes, and grid on the screen at my number pad, but I get 
no response when I click on them.
I thought I'd like to learn what the grid is set at, but got nothing 
from clicking on grid.
Last session I did go to the place in the options menu that seems to be 
where you change grid settings, follow its procedure, changed to various 
grid settings, still no quantizing results.

I've tried this on 2 different computers now, same result, so I suppose 
it's not a broken Reaper problem.
I've reinstalled Reaper only a few days ago on both machines, and the 
out of time item does play.
Last session I split the item at the point, measure 11, where the timing 
really goes off, and quantized that separately, same result, no 
quantization, nada, zilch!
Thanks,
Indigo L


On 6/7/2012 2:12 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> Try selecting your item, then pressing control enter. Should be a bit more useful for midi stuff. Somewhere in there is quantization which actually works.
>
> On Jun 6, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Indigo wrote:
>
>> I'm learning Reaper as needs arise, and haven't needed to quantize midi until now.
>> I can't get it to work.
>> I'm temporarily back in version 3.78, but that is not the reason, since Reaper had quantizing long before in earlier versions.
>> I select the midi item with ctrl+shift+right arrow, go to edit/Process Item/quantize to grid.
>> I tried setting the quantization from thirty-second notes to even 1 2 and 4 bars, click on process, and it's definitely doing nothing.
>> ctrl+Z undo definitely says it is undoing quantization, though there is no evidence to my ears that quantization has taken place.
>>
>> I went to options menu where you can apparently assigg
>> n the grid, and set it to everything from sixteenths to whole notes, no change.
>> I pressed alt+G to toggle grid before quantizing, no change.
>> By the way, alt+G doesn't say if it is toggling grid off or on.
>> I suspect it is just causing the grid lines to show visually along the time line, and is not affecting whether the grid is in place or not.
>> I also went to project settings and tried all 3 time base for item choices:, 1; time, 2; beatposition, length, measures,etcetera,  and 3; beat position only.
>> Quantization still didn't work on any of the time choices.
>>
>> Can anyone provide a easy 1 2 3 baby step tutorial on what steps I should be doing to quantize?
>> Thanks,
>> Indigo L
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