Timing Issues While in Record Mode

I'd first like to start out by saying thanks to anyone who is going to potentially help me. The problem i'm having is that I can't get my kick drum sample to play the way I want it to while I'm recording it. I want a boom boom boom bap, boom boom bap sound, similar to beats Pete Rock does for Gang Starr. When the high hat and snare are playing I can get the kick to sound exactly how I want it. When I go to record it has a major delay between the two kicks in a row. So instead of sounding like boom boom bap, It sounds like boom......boom bap. To me it looks like the little individual bars that represent pad hits on the maschine can't get any smaller or faster. Each tap on the pad takes up one square and it's not working for me. I'm not sure how to fix this and I'm pulling my hair out, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

hit the grid button

 

Thanks. I'm a beginner with this type of stuff and I really appreciate the help but I have another question. Inside of the Grid what would I want to change it too? I read up about people doing the 1/16T but i'm not even positive on what that is.
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Ahhh, i see what it does. Excuse my noob-ness.

 

not sure if you knew this... but pete rock didnt produce for gangstarr, pete rock produced for cl smooth and others, but Gangstarr is COPMLETELY PRIMO on the production side, atleast 99.9%.

 

Got them confused. You are correct all day, He did I.N.I and that's who I was thinking of.

 

This is most likely just the record quantization. Don't change the grid, just turn quantization to NONE when holding KEYBOARD.

 

Actually, both suggestions could be correct depending on what you're doing.

Changing the grid while recording with Quantize turned on changes the resolution of the number of beats you can write into a single bar and determines the length of one of your notes. A 1/8 resolution will write eighth notes. Increasing the grid to 16 or 32 gives you more flexibility of placement.

Quantizing can also be set with a threshold, which tells Maschine how you want your playing corrected. Quantize of 50% nudges your notes closer to the grid by 50%, while Quantize 100% locks you to the grid. So if you can't get that double-kick squeezed in, you need to increase your grid.

The T is for "triplet" (read this over and over and count in 4/4 time: one-and-a two-and-a three-and-a four-and-a). One way to examine this phenomena is to set your grid to 1/8 and record 4 beats, then quantize 100%. Your notes should be locked to that grid. Now change your grid from Maschine to a 1/8T and look closely at where the new grid falls compared with your old notes. New notes will now get recorded on a triplet boundary.