User Manual

THE REGROOVE MIXER
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Creating your own ReGroove patches
To create your own ReGroove Patch, proceed as follows.
1. Create a clip containing notes with the desired timing and dynamics (velocity).
Alternately, you could import a MIDI File with the desired effect, or use the “To Track” function on a Dr.REX device
to extract the notes from a REX loop.
D Note that some MIDI clips will make better grooves than others.
To learn some of the characteristics of a good groove-making clip, see “Tips for selecting the best Groove-Making
Clips” below.
2. Select the clip.
3. In the Tool Window's Groove section, select an unused Groove Channel.
4. Click the “Get From Clip” button at the bottom of the Tool Window's Groove Settings tab.
Alternately, you could select “Get Groove From Clip” from the clip's context menu.
5. Set the various impact parameters as desired.
For a good starting point, you can simply leave them at their default settings.
6. Click the Save Patch button in the Tool Window's Groove section and specify a name and location.
Your ReGroove patch is now ready to use. As discussed in “Applying grooves to your music”, simply route one or
more note lanes to the ReGroove channel assigned to your new groove, and pull up the Groove Amount fader on that
channel.
Tips for selecting the best Groove-Making Clips
The following tips will help insure that your custom grooves work their best:
D Include as many sixteenths notes as possible in the source clip.
If there are any sixteenth note gaps in your source material, there will be corresponding gaps in your groove patch.
This means, when you apply the groove to a note lane, some notes will be grooved and some (those that fall in the
gaps) will not.
D Grooves use the relative differences between note velocities, not their absolute values.
If you don't want dramatic shifts in dynamics, avoid having widely varying velocities in your source clip.
D Groove patches are always an exact number of bars, so if your source clip has an uneven length, the groove
will be extended to the next bar.
We recommend that you adjust your source clip to an exact number of bars before creating a groove patch.
D In general, you should use source clips whose length is an even multiple of 2 (for example, 1-bar, 2-bars, 4-
bars, etc.)
You can create and use grooves that are an odd number in length (3, 7, 13, etc.), but unless you're well organized
and plan to use these grooves in specific polyrhythmic pieces, their general effect on most tracks will be some-
what unpredictable.