Hey guys im new to producing music, and i am using Cubase SX attached to a midi keyboard with vsts and everything is coming out cool...however, i have a question...what exactly does quantize do?
is it what i think it is...that it aligns the midi keys you recorded with the beat (assuming you set the Cubase project tempo to 138, average trance beat)??

if thats not what it is, then how do i do that? because i find it a little difficult to be able to play a melody and have it go exactly with the background trance kicks...im always a little off no matter how hard i try to stay on beat while playing even though i only have a latency of 2 ms which is awesome(i even use the ticker noise to guide me to play in sync with the beat, but it really doesnt help much)...any ideas anyone how i can get clean music matching the beat perfectly?


thanks in advance