Dirtywave M8 - Groove View

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Dirtywave M8 Operation Manual
Groove View
GROOVE 00
0 06
1 06
2 --
3 --
4 --
5 --
6 --
7 --
8 --
9 --
A --
B --
C --
D --
E --
F --
T>120
1 ---
2 ---
3 ---
4 ---
5 ---
6 ---
7 ---
8 ---
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Grooves allow dening the speed of each of the 16 steps in a phrase by altering the
number of ticks each step consumes. This allows swing, shue, triplets, and faster
phrases. See the section on common grooves in the appendix.
Groove “00” is the default groove for all 8 tracks. Each track can use a dierent groove
independently. Assign a groove to a track by using the groove (“GRV”) FX command in
a phrase.
Add swing to a song by navigating to the Groove view that is located above the phrase
[SHIFT]+[UP]. Start the song by pressing [SHIFT]+[PLAY] and edit the value in row 0
by using [EDIT]+[UP or DOWN]. Notice that it alters both rows 0 and 1 at the same
time. A common swing setting is 07,05 or 08,04.
The Groove Math(s)
The M8 has a resolution of 24 ticks per quarter note (24PPQ). Since there are 4 six-
teenth notes in a quarter note and each row in a phrase represents a sixteenth note in
time, there are 6 ticks per row (24PPQ / 4 sixteenth notes = 6 ticks). Therefore by default
all grooves have two rows of “06”. If you want to stick with the same count, the total
ticks in a phrase should be equal to 96 (16 steps x 6 ticks per step). When editing a
groove there is a help message at the bottom of the screen that sums the ticks for your
convenience.
The groove will loop to the beginning when an empty row (“--”) is encountered, and a
row of “00” will skip the phrase step.