Sony SAC7000 User Manual

A groove refers to the rhythmic pattern of a piece of music. Groove maps in ACID expand on the software’s ability to match the rhythm 
and timing of files nondestructively and in real time: 

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Breathe new life into your collection of loops and MIDI files by creatively applying grooves to change the rhythmic feel. 

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Adjust the timing of a track to add or remove a human feel. 

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Quantize and map multiple tracks or loops to a common groove. 

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Extract the groove from an existing audio file. 

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Create new grooves from scratch. 

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Different grooves can be applied to an entire track or portions of a track so you can easily match loops with incompatible feels and 
tighten/loosen grooves nondestructively. 

From the View menu, choose Groove Pool to toggle the display of the Groove Pool window.

With the Groove Pool and Groove tool (

) on the main ACID toolbar, you can use groove maps to adjust the timing of entire tracks or 

portions of tracks. 

•  If you want to get really creative, try setting a clip’s stretching method to Pitch shift segments (on the Stretch tab of the Clip Properties 

•  If a groove map does not seem to work correctly on a loop, the beats in the file may not be properly detected. Click the Redetect Beats 

Groove maps are applied nondestructively. If you want to change a media files's inherent groove, use the Render to new 

track command to render a new, grooved media file. 

From the View menu, choose Groove Pool to display the Groove Pool window if it isn’t already visible. 

Drag a groove from the Groove Pool window to a track. You can drop the groove in the track list or on the timeline. 

A groove event is displayed at the bottom of the track to indicate that a groove has been applied to the track. 

To toggle the height of the groove strips, choose Show Full-Size Groove Strips from the View menu. 

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