Topic: Easier Way to Identify Grooves in Edit Sequence

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Replied September 30, 2012 at 09:32 #1961163

Nathan
Participant

There was a post about the logic of the names, how the tag broke down into MIDI set, song, groove, etc.

Maybe somebody could write a short algorithm in some simple computer language to take a groove name and interpret where it could be re-found.

Shouldn’t be a big job if the naming logic is consistent. I’m sure people would chip in with library naming info to help as it progressed. What is best to write it in so it can be used on Mac and PC? Java?

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SD2.3, NYII, C&V, MC, MF, ED, Latin Perc, Twisted, Pop, N1H, Electronic, Classic, Funkmasters, Rock Solid, Blues, Indie-Folk.

Replied October 1, 2012 at 12:31 #1961177

Jym Feat
Participant

or just use the internal track name, like XLN does…

Replied October 1, 2012 at 18:47 #1961183

John
Moderator

Hi,

please see the reply from Rogue here:
http://www.toontrack.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=81397&mpage=1

Originally, I believe the naming formatting and convention comes from not all hosts being able to pick up/receive more than a certain amount of characters upon drag-and-drop MIDI from the plugin.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied October 2, 2012 at 11:22 #1961213

Jym Feat
Participant

yes, originally, but nowadays the most constrained of them all is Logic 8, still limited to a whooping 31-char restriction for region names: yet it would be nice if “A_S4_V_v05” was actually spelled “americana straight 4/4 verse 5″… and that would only be 30 chars!

Replied October 2, 2012 at 13:51 #1961215

Scott
Moderator

yet it would be nice if “A_S4_V_v05” was actually spelled “americana straight 4/4 verse 5”

And would that be the straight ‘Ballad’, straight ‘Midtempo’, or straight ‘Uptempo’ category? And which of the 6 songs in those 3 tempo categories specifically?

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied October 2, 2012 at 20:20 #1961224

Jym Feat
Participant

yet does A_S4_V_v05 tell us more than that?

Replied October 2, 2012 at 21:45 #1961229

Scott
Moderator

ORIGINAL: Jym Feat

yet does A_S4_V_v05 tell us more than that?

Yes.

It tells us it is the ‘Ballad’, Straight 4/4, ‘Push 76 BPM’ song, Verse, Variation 05, default velocity (0).

For, say, Americana Midtempo, Straight 4/4, Amtrak Dbl Time 97 BPM, Verse, Variation 05, it would look like this:

A_S4b_Vc_V05

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

Replied August 21, 2014 at 01:04 #1973509

Scott Eshleman
Participant

@Scott said:

ORIGINAL: Jym Feat

yet does A_S4_V_v05 tell us more than that?

Yes.
It tells us it is the ‘Ballad’, Straight 4/4, ‘Push 76 BPM’ song, Verse, Variation 05, default velocity (0).

For, say, Americana Midtempo, Straight 4/4, Amtrak Dbl Time 97 BPM, Verse, Variation 05, it would look like this:

A_S4b_Vc_V05

Great!!! So there IS a translation table!!!
You were able to reveal an amazing amount of detail from that small groove label.
Can y’all please make it/them available? Perhaps, if only as an update to each library and MIDI pack?
Thanks.

Replied August 21, 2014 at 10:25 #1973516

Henrik Ekblom
Participant

A side note for EZdrummer 2 users; if you have a MIDI block that comes from EZdrummer in your host, you can use that MIDI in the Tap2Find window to find matching beats. Simplest way is to drag it to the Drop Zone (if your host supports drag and drop).
If you haven’t altered it, one of the 100% matches will be the groove. Right click on it and select “Show in Browser” and you’ll see the groove in it’s folder structure.

If you have a MIDI block on EZdrummer 2’s song track that you want to find the origin of, right click it, select “Find/Show in Browser” and it will be revealed.

Just a tip of the day

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

Replied November 30, 2024 at 19:32 #3332977

John Guy
Participant

It’s 2024 and this is still an issue. Honestly if I had known before purchasing, it would have been a deal-breaker for me, especially since they are more than capable of providing this feature and haven’t bothered all this time – over a decade now? Too late I guess.

EZdrummer version: 3.0.6
Operating system: Windows 11
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