I think what you are talking about is making sure the cutoff doesn't jump around all crazy when you go to turn the knob cause the knob was set somewhere else
It sounds like you have accidentally pressed some of the track mute buttons while recording was active and now the pattern is remembering those button tweaks
Best way to get nice percussion lines is usually to play them in with quantize set to OFF so you can play triplets and different rhythms and stuff yourself...