To edit the contents of groove files directly, drag and drop them from the browser or Groove Pool into a MIDI track. The effect that groove files have on your clips is a combination of two factors: the parameter settings made in the Groove Pool and the positions of the notes in the groove files themselves. For audio clips, this creates Warp Markers at the appropriate positions in the clip.Īfter pressing Commit, the clip’s Groove chooser selection is automatically set to None. For MIDI clips, this moves the notes accordingly. Pressing the Commit button below the Clip Groove chooser “writes“ your groove parameters to the clip.
The Global Groove Amount Slider in the Control Bar If grooves are applied to clips in your Set, the Global Amount slider will also appear in Live’s Control Bar. Note that the Amount slider goes up to 130%, which allows for even more exaggerated groove effects. At 100%, the parameters will be applied at their assigned values.
You can also double-click grooves in the browser to load them directly to the Groove Pool before applying them to a clip. Once you’ve applied a groove file, you can modify its behavior by adjusting its parameters in the Groove Pool, which can be opened or closed via its selector button at the bottom of Browser. In audio clips, grooves work by adjusting the clip’s warping behavior ( see 9.2), and thus only work on clips with Warp enabled. Grooves can be applied to both audio and MIDI clips. If you want to quickly try out a variety of grooves, you can enable the Hot-Swap button above a clip’s Clip Groove chooser ( see 8.1.7) and then step through the grooves in the browser while the clip plays. This immediately applies the timing characteristics of the groove file to the clip. The easiest way to work with library grooves is to drag and drop them from the browser directly onto clips in your Set. Live comes with a large selection of grooves, which appear as. The timing and “feel“ of each clip in your Set can be modified through the use of grooves.