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Tutorial 6—Using Groove Clips
Tutorials
3. In the Groove Clip Pitch dropdown, select C and click OK.
4. Create another pitch marker at the beginning of measure 2, this time
selecting F from the Groove Clip Pitch Change dropdown.
5. Double-click on the clip in track 4 to open the Loop Construction view.
6. In the Loop Construction view, click the Follow Project Pitch button to
enable it.
Listen to the project. Because the default pitch of the project is now C at
measure 1, the clip in track 4 sounds at its original pitch, because its
original root note is C. When the Now time reaches measure 2, the
project pitch changes to F, which forces the clip to transpose all of its
data up a perfect 4th, from a root note of C to a root note of F.
Now let’s change the tempo of the project.
Next Step: Changing the Tempo of Your Project.
Changing the Tempo of Your Project
Groove clips follow the project’s tempo, so we can change the tempo, either
for the entire project or just one part, and still have all our clips playing in
time with each other.
To Change the Project Tempo
1. Select Insert-Tempo Change from the menu.
2. In the Tempo field, enter 110 and click OK.
The project’s tempo is now 110.
Play your project. Do you hear the difference? Try other tempos.
Now that we have created a project that uses existing Groove clips, let’s
take the next step and learn how to create our own Groove clips.
Next Step: Creating Your Own Groove Clips.
Creating Your Own Groove Clips
Any audio clip (of a reasonable size) can be a Groove clip.
We are going to take a clip, slip-edit it so that it contains just the parts we
want, and open it in the Loop Construction view to add tempo and pitch
information to it.
To Create a Groove Clip (example 1)
In this example we will import a short clip of a bass guitar, slip-edit it and
convert it to a Groove clip.