Swing behaviour on different drum machines
I recently got an Auturia Keystep Pro - I wanted a drum sequencer and an all in one midi keyboard etc.
The swing seems to only be settable to the entire drum track (eg the same shuffle for all drum channels).
That seems reasonable and I can for sure live with - you can time shift individual drum channels how you like manually.
However, the swing depends on the time division of the sequencer - this seems odd to me.
So if you put a swing of 75% while in 16th note time division, and put a hi-hat on every 8th note, it will be hard straight hi-hats.
As an inexperienced drum machine user this seems odd to me.
So my question is - is this normal, presumably other drum machines you can set the time division of the shuffle and also an independent shuffle per drum channel.
I can see a technical issue, if you have an 8th note swing, where should the 16th notes sit inbetween.
And it seems like different channels cannot have different time divisions?
This technically seems to be explained by the fact there is only one midi channel for the drum sequencer from the keystep pro - how could you have different swings within one midi channel.
If you could set the time divisions per channel you could create the swing as you pleased with triplets.
Perhaps more experienced users are used to manually setting the shuffle themselves by shifting notes instead?
Recently I've just been trying to sequence some funk drum grooves, like I'll think of a classic drum groove and its way easier to tap than to sequence - the motivation for buying a midi controller was to have an ergonomic physical controller rather than fiddle in a daw with the mouse and keyboard etc and even tapping pads is not nice on my hands (arthritis god damn) so I'd way rather sequence them.
Its so hard to know what to expect gear to do without experience!
I'm eying up a roland p6 or similar, but I also don't understand how you could take the midi out and get it in one channel in a daw etc.
Thanks!