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Quantization aligns (or "snaps") the MIDI data (usually musical notes) to the tempo (or subdivisions, thereof) of the composition. You can think of it as an automatic "clean-up" for MIDI data that was close to exact, but not quite exact. It will often have configurable options, such as quantize to 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes, 1/16 notes, etc... (subdivisions of ...

I use Ableton Live's warping feature for this. Instead of cutting or copying parts parts of the audio waveform (like you're describing in Audacity) it attempts to stretch the recordings to the locations you specify. I've never seen a timestretching algorithm that didn't color the sound at least a little bit (which makes sense, really) but I've had pretty ...

I use an analogy to illustrate what quantization is. Imagine that a beat is like the rung of a ladder. An entire ladder with sixteen rungs is like a measure with sixteen notes. While climbing the ladder, your foot can aim for any rung or land anywhere near a rung, but it will always end up exactly on a rung. Quantization is the process that pushes your ...

Universal Quantization is your friend Clip recording in Ableton Live's Session View is quantized to the Universal Quantization setting and the project's bars/beats position. This works for both starting and stopping clips, which includes recording into them. You do not need to press "stop" precisely, only within the quantization amount before the next unit ...