Operation Manual

THE REGROOVE MIXER
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The ReGroove patches in the
Factory Sound Bank
Reason ships with a ready-made assortment of groove patches, arranged in a number
of different folders:
MPC-60
These grooves were created by analyzing the audio output of an Akai MPC-60. Use
these patches to get the same shuffle feeling as an original MPC-60. Note that these
patches do not contain any velocity or note length information. There are some addi-
tional patches that use the Random Timing feature, which emulates the original MPC-
60's behavior when loaded with a lot of information.
Vinyl
These grooves were created by sampling snippets from classic groove records, ana-
lyzing them with a special signal processing tool, then extracting both timing and ve-
locity information from the samples. These grooves do not contain any note length
information.
Programmed
These grooves were created by a session drum groove programmer. They were hand-
crafted to emulate the feel of certain styles, and are divided into two genres: Hiphop
and Pop-Rock. These grooves do not contain any note length information.
Bass-Comp, Drummer, and Percussion
Grooves in these categories were created by session musicians. Their performances
were captured and analyzed, and the timing and velocity information was then ex-
tracted from the performances. The Bass-Comp patches also contain note length in-
formation, though the other categories do not.