User Manual

THE REGROOVE MIXER
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Slide
Use this knob to slide notes forward or backward in time. Musicians will frequently add energy and urgency to a track
by “rushing” a particular beat or instrument a little. Similarly, they may “drag” a note a little in order to create a more
laid back, shuffle-like feel. The Slide knob has a range of ±120 ticks, which allows you to slide notes up to a thirty-
second note in either direction. Setting negative values makes notes play earlier in time (rushing the feel). Setting
positive values makes notes play later in time (lagging the feel).
For example, if you wanted to create a slightly “in the pocket” groove, you could create a snare lane and assign it to
a ReGroove channel with a small amount of positive slide. This would delay the snare track slightly, giving your music
a relaxed, laid back feel.
q If you have a track that you want to rush (set to a negative slide value), you should put an empty bar at the be-
ginning of your sequence, making sure to set the Anchor Point to “2” (see “Anchor Point”). This insures that
any notes assigned to Bar 1/Beat 1 will indeed play ahead of the beat (since you created an empty measure
into which the early note can shift).
Shuffle
At its most basic level, this knob adds a sixteenth note “swing” feel to the ReGroove channel. A value of 50% results
in a straight (no shuffle) feel, and a value of 66% creates a perfect triplet feel.
You can also use this knob to “de-shuffle” a beat by dialing in values below 50%. For example, if you had a recording
that was played with a perfect triplet feel, setting the Shuffle value to 34% will make the beat straight again!
With Slide set to +20 ticks, notes
play back later in time.
With Slide set to 0 ticks, notes are
not shifted in time.
With Slide set to –20 ticks, notes
play back earlier in time.
Shuffle works by changing the start
time of every other sixteenth note.
A shuffle value of 66% delays every
other sixteenth note to create a
perfect triplet feel.