What does ‘groove’ mean?

It’s a word which comes up a lot around Beats programming and we’re going to explore one aspect of it here; the notion of Swing. I’ll explain what Swing means and how it’s applied when we choose a Swing Quantize value, exploring the effect that it has on our perception of rhythmical playback.

A little goes a long way!

• 00:00 What do we mean by ‘groove’? Track playback with running 16th notes
• 01:33 Straight 16th notes
• 02:44 Exploring Swing
• 05:37 More extreme Swing Quantize values
• 07:16 Playback with progressively strong Quantize Swing amounts
• 09:41 Sometimes subtle Swing is enough
• 10:35 Why mixing straight and Swung Quantize values often doesn’t sound great
• 11:50 Chapter summary

Total Chapter Runtime: 12:28