You can use a hardware sequencer, keyboard
workstation or an Atari ST with our Groove Control method.
Here's how:
1. Insert this Audio/Data CD into a PC or Macintosh computer.
2. Copy the sequences you want to use from the MIDI files
folder on this CD-ROM to a PC formatted floppy disc.
3. Import the MIDI file sequences from the floppy into
your sequencer as a Standard MIDI File (SMF).
Many older sequencers such as the original
Roland MC-500 and the Atari ST can only use DS/DD floppy discs,
so make sure that you only use that type for those devices.
Groove Control is only directly
compatible with sequencers that can read (Import) Standard
MIDI File sequences. This includes almost all devices in the
sequencing world. A notable exception is the popular Akai
MPC-60. The only way to use Groove Control on a non-SMF
compatible sequencer like this is to play the Groove Control
sequence from another device that is compatible (Mac/PC, etc)
and record the sequence via the MIDI input of the MPC-60 (MIDI
Clock sync should be turned on in the MPC during recording).
Once the GC sequence is recorded in the MPC, the Groove Control
loop can be manipulated in all the same ways and it can be
saved in the MPC native format. This is a bit time consuming,
but it does work. It also might be a good time to upgrade
your system to one that can read SMFs directly (like the MPC-2000).
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