Groove Tracks

Groove Tracks is a way of making your regions groove together that works with either audio or MIDI regions. I am going to demonstrate it to you with MIDI because that is where I personally find it most useful.

I have played in a fretless bass part that has some Quantize settings that are pretty specific, and it feels great. Then I played a kick drum part and it is close in feel to the bass, but not quite. This is where Groove Tracks really shines.

If you Ctrl + click on Track Header Components, you can scroll down to add Groove Track to the Track Header:

Figure 5.10 – Adding Groove Track to the Track Header

Since the bass is to be the guide, in the bass' Track Header, I will move the mouse to the left and see that there is a yellow star that I can check.

After I do that, a blank checkbox appears on all other tracks. In this example, I only have the drum kit. When I check that checkbox, I am telling the drums to follow the...