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Basically I thought I'd make my next tune with zero drawn in automation or quantizing perfectly, just simply recording what comes off the controller, lfo changes, pitch changes etc etc. Mainly because everything of my own I listen to sounds really robotic.

Does anyone else do this, and do you find you yield good results as opposed to drawing everything down to a tee?

Cheers

never mind how everyone else does it - just try it.

if it sounds crap, try something else.

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For dubstep and other electronic sounds I tend to quantize everything, since it's basically supposed to sound robotic. If you're trying to emulate real instruments, including drums, it's better to forget about the quantization and do it yourself, to make it sound nice and warm. What DAW are you using? In Reason you can use a ReGroove mixer to automatically unquantize everything to a point where it sounds good, but not off beat.