Note timing randomisation

[Bogzla]

I'm trying to create a kind of tribal drumming section in a track, and somewhere in the back of my mind I had recollections of a setting in modplug tracker instruments having the ability to randomise note timings very slightly to 'humanise' the feel.

Can't find it in the current OpenMPT implementation (just vol, panning, reso & cutoff), so I'm probably misremembering.. but anyway, does anyone know of a way to achieve this, possibly with a VST? What I'm going for is more than one drum being hit with a human error feel (not the same perfect synchrony with each hit).

cheers!

[Saga Musix]

No, such an option never existed, you have to either do it manually (e.g. using SDx effects) or hope that the plugin you use provides such an option (which is sometimes the case for "natural-sounding" plugins).

[LPChip]

In the past, I created a webbased script where you could paste a pattern in your browser and submit it to the webpage. It would then generate a humanized pattern with random SDx commands. I do not have that script anymore though. Maybe you remember that?

[Bogzla]

I don't think so. I might be thinking of fruityloops or some other program I played around with at school.
I don't suppose there is a way to have the built in LFO control SDx command values?

[Saga Musix]

No, plugins cannot alter the interpretation of pattern data. But if you are working with plugins anyway, you can try something like Humanisator from Tobybear's MidiBag plugin collection. It won't work with sample-based plugins but it might be just what you're after.

[Bogzla]

Aha, perfect!

>Humanisator selected as the instrument's Plugin
>output Humanisator to chosen sampler / synth (Shortcircuit 2 is working for me)
>Instrument's 'new note action' needs to be set to continue else it cuts off the sample if humanisator timing is used.

Thanks so much