HUMANIZE: MIDI effect - adjust the amount of randomness and probability, changing the velocity of the steps
    in the pattern and slightly moving the recorded steps further from their relative position.
   Each time a pattern is repeated, the humanize will change its internal values.

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I didn't get the impression that "humanizing" was much of a concern.

plays it out of time

Rest of the band likely just got used to his idiosyncratic playing and adapted.

At some point I think we have to put the “it was a freak accident that was repeated with precision over and over, forever” argument to bed.

Probably we limit ourselves a lot if we're too confined to those without being able to express our energy

But someone who is trained explicitly to play exact integer divisions will have trouble expressing their energy as much

There is a difference between the crude musical notation and how it's actually meant to be played - a notation showing 4 quarter notes in a 4/4 beat does not imply that the correct way to play them is to literally have 4 identical notes with idential gaps; even without any explicit extra notation (which indicates significant changes) there is an implied understanding that there should be a variation in velocity (and, for a skilled practicioner, not a random one, but placing slight emphasis as required) and a variation in timing (again, for a skilled player not random but e.g. depending on the music genre a slight shuffle or an intentional shift of one beat); this variation is not a flaw of imperfect execution, but required to properly play the music as intended.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0111... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00578-5

Without this, the groove will feel wooden and stifled.

Does the 808 fall into this category? It's been used in a lot of songs that sound good.

But watching "Jazz drummer reacts" video for "Bleed" made my head spin. The speed, precision, complexity of those rhythms - I cannot comprehend what it is like inside his mind while he's playing. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpooH-TGtBg]

"Clockworks" is another one that makes me question my sanity.

The drummer essentially plays two rhythms at once. His hands mostly do 4/4, but feet play a shorter phrase that only lines up with hands every couple of bars. It's like simultaneously counting to four on one hand and to three on the other hand, but using four limbs on a full drum kit, adding accents, ghost notes, changing time signates, and not skipping a freaking beat.

And their every song is like this. I also think on "Combustion" he plays 1/16 note off from the rest of the band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcsAAPdJTBE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FssULNGSZIA