Specifications

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2 Enter or edit any comments you want to save
with the template.
3 Click the Save button to save the groove tem-
plate with the current Options Slider Settings.
– or –
Click the Save As button to make a copy of the
groove template with the current Options Slider
Settings. In the resulting Save dialog, enter a
name for the copy and click Save.
Slider settings may be lost if any of the following
operations are performed without saving the
settings first:
• Another MIDI Operations pane is selected.
• The MIDI Operations window is closed.
•You switch to another groove template.
Recall With Template Restores all Groove Quan-
tize Options to the settings that are saved with
the current template.
Applying Groove Templates
Groove templates can be of any length and can
be applied to any number of bars. Typically, you
will apply groove templates to selections of the
same length and meter. However, groove tem-
plates can be applied to different meters—for ex-
ample, a groove template in 6/8 can be applied
to a selection in 4/4. Also, it is not necessary to
start on the downbeat when making a selection
to apply a groove template.
To apply Grove Quantize:
1 Using the Grabber or Selector, select the MIDI
notes you want to Groove Quantize.
2 Choose MIDI > Groove Quantize.
3 Select a groove template from the Groove
Template pop-up menu.
4 Enable Timing, Duration, and Velocity, and
adjust their sliders to the percentages you want.
5 If desired, enable Pre-Process using Quantize.
6 Click the Apply button.
Mapping Groove Templates
Pro Tools applies groove templates relative to
the song start. For example, a two-bar groove
template repeats starting at every odd-num-
bered bar in the session (bar 1, 3, 5, 7…).
Template Mapping for Equal Meters And Odd
Numbered Bars
If a two-bar groove template is applied to a selec-
tion of one bar of the same meter, only the first
bar of the template is used. If the selection does
not encompass bar boundaries, for example
1|2|000 to 2|1|000, the groove template will only
modify the selected notes.
2-bar groove template, repeating template grid
Applying 2-bar groove template to a 1-bar selection,
odd numbered bar
2-Bar
Groove
Template
2-Bar
Groove
Template
2-Bar
Groove
Template
2-Bar
Groove
Template
4/4 Bar 1
4/4 Bar 2 (not used)
(groove template)
4/4 1-bar selection