I think I confused you when I said "inherent quantization". It's normally not something we can hear unless the ppq is really low. The quick answer is, if the quantization is off we can not hear a difference between what was played during the recording and what is played back on the sequencer.

The digital equipment live and work in a quantized "world". The quantization is so small that we see/hear it as continuous. In this case, suppose you play at a tempo that plays 1 quarter note a second and the ppq is 1000. Then there are 1000 ticks spread between two adjacent quarter notes (1 second). You can record a note at --let's say-- 100th tick or 101st tick, but a moment between these two ticks is not available for recording. That is what I meant when I said "inherent quantization". Nevertheless, this is so small that the human ear can not notice if it were played at 100th tick or 101st tick; it just sounds like a continuous time line to us.

When you do quantize using a function on the keyboard, we make it coarse. e.g. we dictate a set of rules: e.g. 250th tick is available for a note and then 500th tick is available for the next note, but none between 250th and 500th. If there is note at 240, push it onto 250th (or close to that depending on the other options you have set) and so on. This is what we normally referred to as quantization.

Shiral


[This message has been edited by shiral (edited 06-08-2002).]