Dilla Time¶
Charnas. (2022). Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm.
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- The Akai MPC's "swing" parameter, adjustable as a percentage, delays every other sixteenth-note slightly behind the exact grid, converting a stiff quantized pattern into one that grooves; producers such as J Dilla became known for pushing hi-hats and snares deliberately off the grid — even defeating grid-snap entirely — to get a loose, human, behind-the-beat feel
This sourceThe MPC swing parameter as a percentage delay on alternate sixteenths, and J Dilla's deliberately off-grid placement of hi-hats and snares.
- The Akai MPC's "swing" parameter, adjustable as a percentage, delays every other sixteenth-note slightly behind the exact grid, converting a stiff quantized pattern into one that grooves; producers such as J Dilla became known for pushing hi-hats and snares deliberately off the grid — even defeating grid-snap entirely — to get a loose, human, behind-the-beat feel
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