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LIQUID
GROOVES GROOVE CONTROL
introduction
We are very pleased to present the exclusive
new Groove Control™ feature on this special version of our
best-selling Liquid Grooves collection. These grooves are some of
my personal favorites, and Groove Control™ takes them to places
that I never could have imagined when we originally created them.
In many ways, Liquid Grooves is the ultimate Groove Control™library,
since there are so many different -yet complementary elements and
mixes. Since every loop can be combined with any other, please feel
to experiment with wild combinations.
Groove Control™ gives you a simple and high quality way to
change the tempo, pitch, pattern and feel of stereo loops right
from your own sequencer. Have fun!
Because of the flexibility of Groove Control™, think of these
loops as just a starting point for your own creativity. Here are
just a few possibilities to get you thinking:
1.
Change the tempo of the grooves without the pitch changing.
How? Just change the sequencer's tempo.
2.
Change the pitch of the grooves without the tempo changing.
How? Adjust the GC Program's coarse and fine tuning parameters in
your sampler.
3.
Change the feel of the loop to match the feel of your track.
How? Quantize the GC sequence with the same settings as the other
tracks in your song.
4.
Tighten up the drummers performance.
How? Gradually increase the percentage of Quantization on the Groove
Control™ sequence.
5.
Turn a straight feel into a shuffle or visa versa.
How? Use a swing quantize setting or increase the percentage of
the shuf-fle parameter in your sequencer.
6.
Change the time signature of the loop.
How? Move the sequence loop point to loop in the new time signature.
Move the position of the downbeats and backbeats with the event
editing capabilities of your sequencer.
7.
Create a No Kick or No Snare version of the loop.
How? Using event editing, reassign the MIDI note numbers of the
Kick or Snare slices to Hi-hat slices.
8.
Change the "pushes" in a pattern.
How? Move the position of the downbeat kicks in the pattern forward
by a sixteenth. (Event Editing)
9.
Build your own pattern from scratch using the sounds from the loop.
How? Sequence the parts yourself by playing the GC sampler programs.
10.
Create Gating FX by changing MIDI gate times.
How? Change the MIDI gate values or Gate Time parameter in your
sequencer.
11.
Change the levels of the backbeats and hi-hats.
How? Change the MIDI velocity levels of the related slices.
12.
Replace individual drums with different samples.
How? Copy the whole sequence to a new Track/MIDI channel. Delete
the snare events from the first sequence, delete everything BUT
the snare events from the second track. Assign second track to trigger
different Snare samples.
13.
Assign the wrong sequence to the program for randomized grooves.
How? Play different sequences with the same sampler program.
14.
Make your own breakdown.
How? Reassign busier events to hi-hat or ambience slice events.
15.
Use the Kick pattern from one loop and the snare pattern from another.
How? Delete or reassign the relevant events.
16.
Create syncopated or displaced groove combos by shifting the starting
point of each loop by a 16th note.
How? Stagger the start times of the sequences, offsetting them in
16ths.
17.
Change a Snare to a sidestick.
How? Find a Sidestick sample you like, reassign the MIDI events
for the snare to play the new sidestick sample.
18.
Create echoing grooves using MIDI delay.
How? Copy the track and sampler program to multiple channels, offset
the copies by the length of echo you want and lower the velocities
of the copy tracks.
19.
Lower the pitch of the kick in the loop without the other instruments
chang-ing.
How? Copy the sequence and sampler program. Delete the Kicks from
one program and everything BUT the kicks in the other. Lower the
tuning of the "kick only" program in the sampler.
20.
Lay back the snare within the loop.
How? Nudge back the timing of the snare events in the event editor
of your sequencer.
21.
Combine loops from "musically incompatible" grooves.
How? Assign the Quantize settings the same and delete/reassign the
con-flicting events.
22.
Make the loop sound softer and more distant.
How? Change the Attack time of the Sampler Program.
23.
Reverse only the snares in the pattern.
How? Find all the Snare slices in the sampler. Reverse the samples
in the sampler.
24.
Reverse the order of the groove.
How? Play the MIDI sequence backwards (reverse order).
25.
Add Electronica style buzz rolls to live loops.
How? Add short 64th note repetitions on the snare events, with gradually
building velocity values.
WHAT'S THE MAC/PC DATA DISC?
The included Mac/PC Data Disc contains the Groove Control™
sequences in native Logic Mac/PC, Cubase Mac/PC, Vision, Performer
and MIDI file formats.
In addition to the Groove Control™ sequences, there is our
MP3 Sound Finder for quick auditioning of the loops as well as some
cool freebies and product demos you should definitely check out.
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