DNA Groove Templates  -  A Revolution in Sequencing

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 Let's make one thing very clear : 
The best way to use the grooves is through trial and error.  Jump right in.  Take a stab in to dark and wait for those inevitable happy accidents to occur.

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  DNA GROOVES
DNA Groove Templates capture live performances by great musicians that have great feels.  These templates are provided automatically in Vision to allow powerful rhythmic processing of MIDI sequences.

DNA breaks down audio material into its rhythmic components.  The relationship between the notes is captured and translated into a 2-bar Vision Groove Template.  Groove Templates can then be edited, modified and saved to disk.  This means you can create a library of feels, the same way you create a library of sounds for synths and samplers.

 VISION GROOVES
Visions Grooves contain 50 different DNA Groove Templates that are derived from actual performances by real musicians.  The are broken down into 5 sets of 10 grooves.  Each groove set and variation is numbered so that you can indentify the grooves easier.  The grooves automatically load into the Groove Quantize function of Vision once the Vision Grooves file is at the same directory level as Vision.

 1.SHUFFLES
These are among the most pleasing feels in popular music.  Many  Rock, Motown and Dance hits are shuffles.  There are Soft, Med and Hard shuffles which describe the degree of impact the shuffle will have on the listener. 7 & 8 are Mixed Shuffles where the first half of each bar has a different strength.

 2.STRAIGHT
These grooves are perfect if you want to introduce small changes in the feel of your music.  The templates are subtle but are non-linear.  These are not random generated humanized feels - these straight feels are derived from actual music.

 3.PUSHING FEELS
If you want to propel notes ahead of the quantize points these templates work very well, especially for hard driving Rock, Jazz, Country, Latin or Fusion.  Once again experiment, these are timing and velocity references - the uses here are simple suggestions.

 4.LAID BACK
This kind of feel is typical of Motown, Soul, Dance and Ballads.  Many classic Motown hits of the 60s and 70s have a distinct progressive lagging within each bar.  That is to say note fall further from the quantize points successively for each bar.

 5.TRIPLETS
All the templates above are 16 note based.  The triplet set is based around an 8th note triplet feel.

 VARIATIONS
DNA also provides variations that manipulate the template in different ways.  Each variation acts on certain points within the template/bar.  Some are meant to simulate a nervously early snare, while other handle 32nd note runs, etc.  This allows for very fast rhythmic placement of notes in your sequence.  The result - your music takes on a distinct feel, with each instrument having its own subtle variation.  Never before has rhythmic feel been as easy to control on a computer.

 VELOCITY
DNA Groove templates also encode a Velocity map with the timing template.  This contains velocity information that feature classic and exotic dynamic feels that can transform your music.  Vision allows you to control the balance between your dynamics and that of the template.  This makes for an extremely powerful dynamics processor.  The Alternate Velocity map contains an different dynamic contour.  The first nine groove files share the same velocity information.

 DURATION
No deliberate duration information is encoded in Vision Grooves.  Templates with Duration feels will be forthcoming in the DNA Groove sets that will be available for Vision in Jan 94.

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Look for commercial sets of DNA Grooves  for Vision at your nearest dealer.  
Retail $39.95 for a set of 100 new templates that will be added to your existing set.
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All DNA Groove Templates by Ray Williams & Ernest Cholakis

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For more information contact your nearest Opcode Dealer  or
WC Music Research, PO Box 1275, Station K, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M4P 3E5.
Tel: 416 444-6644. Fax: 416 496-2884

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