Using Groove Templates - Creating Tracks

Want that certain feeling of your favorite artists' music in your own projects? You can achieve it by using a groove template and this quick tutorial shows you how! Have you ever tried and tried to get your music to match the groove of other songs? It can be a tricky thing to accomplish. Sometimes all you need is the right amount of swing, if you happen to be using the same approach the artist used while producing the song you have your sights set on. But let's say that the feeling of that song really comes form the beat, and that beat was laid down in real-time, not programmed in a DAW. This is where groove templates come in very handy! In fact, they can be a real life saver. The groove of a song is usually found in the spaces between the notes played, so it can be tough to get the right feel in your own project by simply using the typical quantization options found in most DAWs. Luckily, modern technology makes something as complex as groove templates as easy to make and apply as clicking a mouse! All you need is an example of the groove that you can import into your project. This can be a MIDI or audio file. Once imported, you can extract the groove template in a matter of a couple clicks. The audio used to create the groove template in your project must remain in your project to work! You can create a groove template out of something you yourself recorded, this is not just something to be used with other peoples' beats or riffs. And you can create a groove template out of anything, not just a drum break, but it does need to be rhythmic in nature and have notes being played for the algorithm to do its thing. Groove templates are a quick and easy way to add that subtle touch of funk or soul to your music without having to manually adjust anything. It is one of the best humanization options available to you in modern DAWs and can mean the difference between something in your music sounding robotic and it sounding 'in the pocket'. We all know that much of today's electronic music is being programmed, but the goal is often times to have it appear as though musicians performed it together in real-time. And this is exactly where groove templates shine the brightest.