Thanks Noel.

I have set up a database reminder entry to systematically experiment with the ideas you have suggested in conjunction with what I did as well as investigating whether the particular song file has any impact in this issue.

However I can't wait...lol.

I tried a new song and entered some notes using "Staff Roll Notation Mode". I tried entering two notes without doing anything. After viewing the piano roll it actually timed them to start a bit early. So I entered two more the same but in the next bar after un-checking the Auto-set Tick Offset check box. It was a bit better but not 100% dead on. So I ran the quantize humanize to swing. It set them all up with the standard humanize delay. I then ran quantize with resolution 12 and 100% strength. If fixed all of them to be perfect except the very last note (which is exactly what it did the last time I did this process).

So the most interesting thing with this new song file test is the fact that they were early rather than late. So I went back and entered the exact same two notes but in the next bar but this time I used "Editable Notation Mode" rather than "Staff Roll Notation Mode". So this time the two notes were entered late rather than early (significantly late). This occurred even though the Auto-set Tick Offset check box was un-checked.

So this experiment suggests that the only way to get a perfect line up is to go back and use the process I used except that maybe having the Auto-set Tick Offset check box un-checked is good enough for my ear and thus would save time. However maybe the notes were a bit early because I used "Staff Roll Notation Mode" and maybe that is good enough. I can't do the good enough experiment at the moment (people sleeping in the house).

So I went ahead and did the experiments except for what is asked in the final question in the picture. Right click on the picture and choose "open image in new tab" to see the picture larger and clearer.

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Last edited by bowlesj; 03/29/21 03:50 AM.
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