{"id":514,"date":"2016-02-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/tip-of-the-week-3-humanise-your-instruments-2\/"},"modified":"2016-02-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T09:00:00","slug":"tip-of-week-3-humanise-your-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/tip-of-week-3-humanise-your-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the week: 3 Humanise Your Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanising is a great way of adding a bit of life to your music, it adds a random error to the timing of notes, to make it more human. While we want notes to be in time, we expect the musician to have tiny deviations from the exact time value for both expression and simply because we aren&#8217;t perfect.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/documentation.apple.com\/en\/logicpro\/usermanual\/Art\/L00\/L0002_QuantizeExamp.png?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/documentation.apple.com\/en\/logicpro\/usermanual\/Art\/L00\/L0002_QuantizeExamp.png?resize=320%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">While in a lot of electronic music we want the kick to be exactly on the beat, sometimes humanising a synth or drum flourish can add a good amount of character. 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