BTW, what improvements/enhancements have been with the current sequencing software on the Synclav? Specifically, swing, groove etc.

For a history of software releases check out my "Software Downloads" link. 

An easy way to do quantize swing tempos is to: 

From page 106-107 of Manual II, Release 3.23 

   Click Track 
   Although you can change the click rate at any time during recording, it remains the same from one bar to the next.  This does not lend itself to certain types of musical expression, such as a cadenza, accelerando or ritard. 

   You can record a custom click track by tapping the beat on a key on the keyboard.  Any track can be used in this way to control the output of the digital metronome.  Percussion timbres are easiest to work with, but any timbre may be used. Tracks used this way are called click tracks. 

   To record a click trackó 

   1. Record a track, playing each note at exactly the time you want the clicks to sound. 
   2. Press and hold CLICK RATE and the TRACK SELECT button used in Step 1. 
   3. Press and hold TRACK VOLUME and the same TRACK SELECT button, then release both buttons and turn the control knob to zero. 
    When you play the sequence, a click sounds for every note recorded on the click track.  If you are in justified mode, recorded notes are justified to these clicks. 
   To return to the digital metronome, press and hold CLICK RATE and the TRACK SELECT button of the click track. 

   You may want to record different parts of the click track on different tracks at different tempos and then slide and bounce the tracks together to create the final click track.  The justified mode should be used in this procedure.  (See ìJustificationî below.) 

   You can record some parts of your sequence with the digital metronome and others with a click track.  However, a click track cannot be used to impose tempo changes upon already recorded tracks. 
 

   Justification 
   When you record with justification, the computer automatically positions the notes you play exactly on the nearest click, or subdivision of the click.   To specify the number of click subdivisions, you set a click-rate multiplier, which produces additional inaudible ìclicks.î You still hear the click only on the beat, but when recording, all notes are justified to the nearest internal click. 

   To turn on the justify mode, press the JUSTIFY button on panel 2.  The default setting for the click rate multiplier is 4.  Turn the control knob to dial in a click-rate multiplier from 1 to 16.  Different click-rate multiplier settings can be used to achieve different justification results. 
 

    It seems that I might have met you back in 1987 at the Chicago NED office through Vaughn Hallyard. If so give a shout-out to Vaughn.

 Nope.  Wasn't me.  I bought my systems in 1995.  I am actually a composer with too much time on his hands! 

 Hope this helps you out. 
 

 Brandon Amison 
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