Re: How to get swing feel from dotted notation?

[Henry Law]

On 31/03/16 01:48, Colin Campbell wrote:
> into more of a triplet effect

If I, as a sometime jazz player, were trying to communicate the effect 
of "swing" then I'd say, summarising brutally and rather inaccurately, 
"It's written as 4/4 but played as 12/8."

In other words the player adds something that's not written down, which 
is going to make it rather hard for you to generate MIDI which, since 
it's generated from the written-down bits, is /ipso facto/ lacking the 
"feel" that the player adds.

Sounds to me as if you're going to have to play it on a keyboard and 
save the (quantized) note values as MIDI.

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Henry Law            Manchester, England