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Grooves, swing and shuffle

A groove shifts the timing and velocity of sequenced notes to change the feel. Pick one of eleven types with E2 on the tempo screen and dial swing or shuffle with E3; the bar menu can override the amount per track.

Start with shuffle and a little swing, then try the other types on the same pattern; give a single track its own amount in the bar menu.

How to

Add swing to the whole project

  1. 1
  2. 2 choose the groove type
  3. 3 clockwise past the centre for swing, anticlockwise for shuffle

Details

  • A groove changes the feel of the sequencer by moving the timing of notes and changing their velocity.

    TE’s guide
  • Grooves also vary timing and velocity slightly at random, so the swing sounds less mechanical.

    TE’s guide
  • On the tempo screen, clockwise past the centre for swing or anticlockwise for shuffle; the two push notes in opposite directions.

    TE’s guide
  • on the tempo screen picks the groove type, in this order: shuffle, half shuffle, danish, bombora, wobbly, gaussian, accents, island nod, disfunk, roll over and prophetic. The metronome shows each as two letters — SH, HS, DA, BO, WO, GA, AC, IN, DF, RO, PR.

    checked on a unit · 1.1.33
  • Shuffle is the everyday swing and half shuffle a lighter version of it; accents emphasises the important beats.

    TE’s guide
  • Bombora breaks up the beats on 2 and 4, and wobbly deliberately loosens the timing for a funkier, messier feel.

    TE’s guide
  • TE describes gaussian and island nod only in jokes, so judge them by ear.

    TE’s guide
  • The online guide leaves out four types. Danish relaxes the beat, disfunk turns funky one way and groovy the other, and roll over gives a slow, lazy hip-hop feel. TE gives prophetic no description at all.

    TE’s guide
  • sets a groove amount for the current track that replaces the tempo screen's swing value; the groove type still comes from the tempo screen.

    TE’s guide
  • Over MIDI, CC81 sets the groove amount, drawn as a slider under the metronome on the tempo page — far left at 0, centred at 64, far right at 127.

    checked on a unit · 1.1.33
  • Community MIDI tables give 63 as the no-groove value, one below the slider's centre at 64; which of the two is exactly neutral is not confirmed.

    community

Our wording, for OS 1.1.33. TE’s page source

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