Grooves Tabs won't stay open

[delboy007]

In the Grooves window the tabs don’t seem to behave as expected.  So for example if I select “fills” a fills tab opens as expected. I might then try a tap2find and then a tap2find tab opens. Great.  So I might end up with four tabs each with a little x on the top right side. I would expect to be able to go to each tab until I find what I want but that is not possible because as soon as I select anywhere on the tab it closes.  I would only expect it to close if I click the little x . Surely this can’t be right ?

Just to be clear,  I try a tap2find, and am interested in one rhythm, then I select “standard” from the top pane , I don’t like anything there so want to go back to tap2find but I can’t because if I select that tab it closes so i have to start again.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

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delboy007 wrote:

I would expect to be able to go to each tab until I find what I want but that is not possible because as soon as I select anywhere on the tab it closes.

The blue boxes you refer to as “tabs” are really filters. All the filters you have clicked on in the area above are gathered in one row to show what you have filtered out. If you for example click “4/4” and “Straight”, you’ll see those two filter tags selected in the lists, but also lined up (where you thought they were tabs).

Having two filters means that you are searching for all grooves that have these properties. In the above example, you would see all grooves that are both “4/4” and “Straight”.

This design is to clearly show what you have filtered. Without this line users missed that had filtered certain things, for example when the filter was scrolled to a not visible place in the list.

This design is also to gather all filters in one place, so they easily can be removed (by clicking on them).

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• This post was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Henrik Ekblom.

[delboy007]

OK but what if you want to go back to a previous filter ?

[Henrik Ekblom]

On the top left corner of Grooves there are two arrows, left and right. Those work like the buttons in a web browser; you can back to the previous “setup” with filters etc. you had (almost like an undo), and the right pointing arrow does the opposite.

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[delboy007]

I can see those two arrows but they are greyed out.

[Henrik Ekblom]

The back arrow will be enabled when you click a filter. It means that you can now go back to the state that the Grooves tab had before you clicked the filter (which was no filter activated). When you press select a filter, or select a MIDI file in groove, and you want to go back to the previous selection you had, then you press the back button.

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[delboy007]

ok thanks. Still having trouble getting my head around it. Ezdrummer basic used to have a great little groove cupboard on the right hand side. If i liked a groove I could drop it into the cupboard until I had a dozen I could choose from for that song or globally. Seems strange that this much more expensive version doesn’t have that facility

[Henrik Ekblom]

It’s the User MIDI folder you are referring to, which is a folder that you can store your own MIDI grooves in.

In Superior Drummer 3, it’s found in the bottom of the Libraries list (on the left side in the Grooves tab).

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[delboy007]

Excellent thanks. I found the user midi folder. Only problem is if I add something to that folder I can’t find a way of removing. If I right click “delete” it says “do you want to delete from the disk” which I obviously don’t want to do

[Henrik Ekblom]

delboy007 wrote:

Excellent thanks. I found the user midi folder. Only problem is if I add something to that folder I can’t find a way of removing. If I right click “delete” it says “do you want to delete from the disk” which I obviously don’t want to do

When you add something to the User MIDI folder, you create a copy of the MIDI file and place it in the folder “User MIDI” on the hard drive. When you delete something from the User MIDI folder, the actual MIDI file is removed from the hard drive.

So if you drag a file from a MIDI library to User MIDI, then delete that file from User MIDI, you are deleting the copied file. The original file that was copied isn’t removed 🙂

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[delboy007]

Agh that makes sense. I thought it might be something like that but it is a bit scarey risking the deletion of one of my favoutite drum fills.

I still think they should give a sexier name like “vault” or Jewel Box” .  user folder sounds like a place where I keep my old socks

Thanks.

[Henrik Ekblom]

delboy007 wrote:

I still think they should give a sexier name like “vault” or Jewel Box” .  user folder sounds like a place where I keep my old socks

Haha, good thinking 😀

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