While you might think you want or need the perfect timing of midi, the slight "off-time" inflections that are inherent in human playing are what gives a song it's "human feel" and groove.

If you record with midi, you can use quantize to get the beat exactly on the mark or use it to create random variations in the beat.

Some DAW's include a function called "audio snap" or some other name that does essentially the same thing with audio.

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