Joe, I do not use any automatic "humanize" functions, which are generally for use only with MIDI files, the free ones that were done with Step Entry or played in poorly, but my experience has shown that if a particular track or entire file doesn't sound good to begin with to me, all the tweaking in the world is unlikely to help it.

And, as I've answered before in the past about the automated humanize function, I'd rather play in my own tracks where I am the human being involved, eh?

Random changing of things such as velocity and note start times isn't necessarily a human function. Not for humans who have spent their time training, studying and practicing the performance on their given instrument. In my opinion, performance is anything but random. When done properly.

Today's computing power is a wondrous thing and can be used to do a lot, but there comes a point where the old GIGO bromide must be taken seriously.


--Mac