User guide

Chapter 19 Quantizing MIDI Events 485
Creating Groove Templates
You can create quantization grids based on the rhythms of other MIDI regions. These
are referred to as groove templates. Groove templates make it possible to capture the
small timing deviations which give a MIDI region its feel, and apply them to other MIDI
regions.
You can even take the feel from an audio region, and apply it to a MIDI region, helping
a MIDI clavinet part to sit well with a funk guitar Apple Loop, for example (see “Creating
an Audio to MIDI Groove Template” on page 487).
To create your own groove template:
1 Select the MIDI region you want to create a groove template from.
∏ Tip: As a rule of thumb, two-bar MIDI regions work particularly well as models for this
function, but you can use MIDI regions of any length. Make sure that the source MIDI
region actually contains a note at every desired quantization value.
2 Choose Options > Groove Templates > Make Groove Template (or use the Make Groove
Template key command).
This creates a quantization template which appears in the Quantization menu of the
Piano Roll and Event List Editors, and the Region Parameter box of the Inspector, when
in the Arrange window.
Groove templates are named after the MIDI region they were derived from.
In essence, this command transforms the exact timing of notes in the selected MIDI
region into a groove template that can be accessed, and used, like any Quantization
menu value.
Important: The source MIDI region used for a groove template must remain in your
project! If you delete the source region from the project, the groove template name is
not removed from the Quantization menu, nor can you use this quantization value. If
chosen, nothing will happen.