[Christopher Duval]

Coming to this late, but I think I know what you are getting at, and it’s something I deal with a lot.  You’re talking about a groove where the downbeat comes on the 4-and, vs. on the 1.  A lot of the music I write uses this syncopation, and it would be so handy to have a set of grooves and fills that do this, or, as you suggest, provide an option to shift the downbeat.

I either have to play the syncopated grooves myself on my MIDI keyboard, or edit Toontrack MIDI parts after flying them into my DAW to create these grooves. And with fills, it’s not just one extra editing step, since the fills are constructed assuming a downbeat on the 1. So it gets a little tricky to edit them so they sound natural. and for me, it’s the fills (and ghost note grooves) that I need to really make my parts sound like they were played by a real drummer. It takes away some of the convenience of the MIDI libraries for me, since so much of what I write has this type of anticipation!

What do you say Toontrack, can you throw us a bone here??!

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• This post was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Christopher Duval.

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