One of the newer functions included in the swing is that EACH INSTRUMENT can have a different swing setting! Also you can turn on or off each of the 1-32 steps that will have the swing setting affect it. It can really trip out the drums by having part of the pattern run with no swing and then suddenly hitting shifted notes. good fun. Also note that since you can determine which steps have swing you are not stuck with the standard even notes being pushed off beat.