Studio Drummer & groove

Anatoliy

Greetings,

I'm learning Studio Drummer and I have a thing that I don't understand and there is nothing about it in the docs. If I understand right, groove is not just a rhythm pattern but in addition to it a slight imperfection in time and velocity, that makes drums not robotic but alive/groovy. I understand that grooves library has that and if I drop a groove from library to drums track as a midi region I got that.

But what if I need exact drums notes? Say I'm producing "Still got the blues". I found score for drums. I entered notes in piano roll. I set Studio Drums as Instrument (to voice it). Can in this case I somehow use grooves of Studio Drums to humanize performance? Can I somehow apply groove from the library (in this particular case from Blues category) to my hand entered notes in piano roll?

I understand that I can apply Humanize in Logic Pro , but that will be random changes. And groove as I understand is musical imperfection, not random. In Ableton I saw a possibility to drug and drop a groove from grooves library to notes written in piano roll, so probably the same possible with Studio Drummer?

Thanks in advance

Uwe303

Hello,

I don't know your daw but in cubase you can learn a quantization pattern/groove from a midi file or audio file, and then apply it onto anything you want. Maybe your DAW has some similar thing cause DAW manufacturers copy each other.

P.S. I found this:

Select the MIDI region in the Tracks area that has the "feel" you want to extract.

Open the Region Inspector (press I on your keyboard).

Click the Quantize pop-up menu.

Scroll to the bottom and choose Make Groove Template.

The name of that MIDI region will now appear as a new option in the Quantize menu for all other regions in your

Then you apply that as you need and of course I mean lear that groove from a drum loop you like from the blues category with making a temporary midi track for example and load that drum pattern onto that, you can delete it afterwards

BTW amazing song and an absolute legendary guitarist, I heard that song and the "still got the blues" album so often and still love it