Re: [linux-audio-dev] RE: MIDI groove theory

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] RE: MIDI groove theory
From: iain duncan (iainduncan_AT_telus.net)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 19:07:26 EEST


> I think that 'groove quantise' does have quite a specific meaning :
> To take the timing from one midi part, and apply it to another.
> So, you get the midi timing from a real drummer grooving away and apply
> it to your beat. Then it pulls your beats to the nearest beat in the
> groove, rather than to the normal 16th or whatever.

That was one sequencer's implementation of the term, but certainly not a
universally accepted strict definition.

Iain

> I seem to remember having some floppys of grooves back in the atari days
> and doing this with midi shaker patterns and the like, but it's been a
> long time....
>


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