Ableton/Live/UG/14 Grooves/03 Groove Tips
- Ways to get more from grooves.
- A groove applies to a whole clip, so placing one drum voice behind the beat needs that voice in its own clip.
- In a Drum or Instrument Rack, extract the chain for that voice (the snare, say) to its own track and clip, then give it a different groove.
- Set a groove's Timing, Random and Velocity to 0% and use only Quantize and Base for quantization that can be changed or undone at any time. Which groove file you use then doesn't matter.
- Duplicate a track, apply a groove with Random turned up to one copy, and play both: every note lands slightly apart from its twin, which thickens single string voices into a section.