In digital music processing technology, quantization is the studio-software process of transforming performed musical notes, which may have some imprecision due to expressive performance, to an underlying musical representation that eliminates the imprecision.

What does it mean to quantize sound?

Basically, quantizing means moving notes recorded into a MIDI sequencer or DAW in line with the “grid,” which makes a rhythmically imprecise performance end up perfect. That sounds easy enough!

What is meant by quantization?

Quantization is the process of constraining an input from a continuous or otherwise large set of values (such as the real numbers) to a discrete set (such as the integers).