CHAPTER 11. USING GROOVES
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The Groove Pool.
11.1.1
Adjusting Groove Parameters
Grooves in the Groove Pool appear in a list, and offer a variety of parameters that can be
modi ed in real time to adjust the behavior of any clips that are using them. You can also
save and hot-swap grooves via the buttons next to the Groove's name.
The Groove Pool's controls work as follows:
Base
The Base chooser determines the timing resolution against which the notes in
the groove will be measured. A 1/4 Base, for example, means that the positions of
the notes in the groove le are compared to the nearest quarter note, and all notes
in any clips that are assigned to that groove will be moved proportionally towards the
positions of the groove notes. At a base of 1/8th, the groove's notes are measured
from their nearest eighth note. Notes in the groove that fall exactly on the grid aren't
moved at all, so the corresponding notes in your clips will also not be moved.
Quantize
adjusts the amount of straight quantization that is applied before the
groove is applied. At 100%, the notes in your clips will be snapped to the nearest note
values, as selected in the Base chooser. At 0%, the notes in clips will not be moved
from their original positions before the groove is applied.
Timing
adjusts how much the groove pattern will affect any clips which are using it.
Random
adjusts how much random timing uctuation will be applied to clips using the
selected groove. At low levels, this can be useful for adding subtle humanization to
highly quantized, electronic loops. Note that Random applies differing randomization
