MusicTechHelpGuy tackles a busy drum pattern in Logic Pro where not every hit fits the same grid. Most notes snap cleanly to a 16th note, but a few need a different value entirely.
He selects the bulk of the pattern first, then applies 16th note quantization by choosing the value from the menu or hitting Q. Hi-hats that only fall on some 16th note positions still read correctly, since a smaller grid value can safely capture larger note gaps too.
For a fill where three notes are crammed into the space of two, he switches to a 16th note triplet grid instead. Quantizing to that grid, then flipping the display to confirm, shows all three notes landing exactly on the lines.
The real takeaway: complex patterns often need more than one quantize value, and matching the grid to how the notes actually fall matters more than defaulting to a single setting for the whole pattern.