User Guide

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Auditioning Grooves
Grooves or Fills within any Bank can be auditioned just by clicking on them. The
name of the Groove and the MIDI note label will turn red. If you want to audition
the Groove while it repeats, turn on the Auto Groove Repeat option for the relevant
Bank. Clicking a playing Groove again will stop auditioning it.
Playing Bundles from the Keyboard
The Grooves and Fills in all three Banks are mapped to the keyboard. The actual
names of the keys used are displayed in the Bank slots, next to the name of each
Groove. These values change dynamically depending upon the status of the -2
Octave Numbering option in the Options panel.
It is highly recommended to turn on the Polyphonic Mode option (in the Play Options
panel) when using the Groove Librarian. This mode allows two or more Grooves
to play at the same time. Not only is this important for overlaying ‘drumloop’-type
Grooves in one Bank with ride and crash patterns from another, but it is also
useful for working with the Kit-Piece Note Filters (see below).
Please consult the sections below about the Play Options panel and the Auto
Groove Repeat buttons, in order to see how the Groove Librarian’s behaviour can be
tailored to suit your particular methods of working.
Kit-Piece Note Filters / Half-Time button
At the top of the Groove Librarian you will notice a row of pink-coloured buttons
above the Groove/Fill Banks. These (with one exception, the Half-Time button at
the extreme-right of each row - see below) are used to filter out individual Kit-
Pieces’ notes from the Grooves playing from the Banks. This function can be used
when you only want to play certain parts of each Groove while you jam other
parts live. For example you could filter the kick and snare so that only the hihats,
toms and cymbals are playing, while you jam in a new kick and snare pattern.
This mode is also useful for combining two Groove sets - for instance, you can
use the kicks, snares and toms from one Bank and the hihats and cymbals from
another. If you are working in this way, please ensure you enable Polyphonic Mode
in the Play Options panel.