Hi

> In terms of groove and swinging, does anyone have an opinion on how
> the Schaltwerk compares to the P3 and TR-909 I know some people that
> say that the Schaltwerk has absolutely no groove, ie. sounds way too
> mechanical, no swinging feel available. I have to agree in some
> regards. With my Schaltwerk experience, the only option to get
> somewhat of a swing going is to delay a track or too, but you can't go
> beyond value 001 without making it sound bad.

This is valid for the Schaltwerk and other sequencers I know.
The best resolution of the swing factor has the Linn /Akai MPC-Series.

I own a Jomox XBase 09, which has a nice swing parameter (though its
resolution is not better than the Schaltwerk): you can draw notes
forward(!) and backward. The "drawing forward" (the note comes earlier
than the original beat) is a very urgent aspect for cool swing stuff.
The best swing solution I know can be found in emagic/apple Logic.

> If you listen to a lot of Microhouse (stuff that people like Ricardo
> Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, and Magda spin), [...] Perhaps it's something
> more software derived as stuff like Ableton Live has three different swing functions.

For Richie Hawtin I assume Linn MPC-60 (or successors).

Florian