[suggestion: MIDI] Groove Templates

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[suggestion: MIDI] Groove Templates

After a look at Reaper and a first glance into
the manual one important missing feature
struck me:

Midi: Groove Templates

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Midi: Groove Templates
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Besides the standard quantizations 8, 16, 12 and 24
it is necessary to have other, less regular Quantization
grids.

Imagine a drummer playing every "2" a tick later,
but the "2 and" and the "3" very slightly earlier. The
"4" is again a little later and the "1" is very exact on
the grid.

Can you define a grid that has such a character?
No you can't do that in Reaper, but in almost every
other DAW it is possible.

Basically every drummer has it's own individual
character - and thus every song get's an
individual character by it's non-regular micro-
timing. But we can't achieve this micro-timing
in Reaper.

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Is there a workaround in Reaper?
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Of course you can edit every single midi-item, but
that's not a smart solution. Such a procedure will be
very very tedious. How many years do you want to
work on one song?

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Conclusion + Solution
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"Groove-Templates" are the solution! "Groove-Templates"
are midi-items of 1 or 2 measures. They have only
a few midi-notes which define a custom-quantization-
grid.

These custom-quantization-grids can be selected
in the "Snap/Grid settings":



Or in case you want snap-settings only
to be your quantization:



(If I didn't oversee something or somebody has
a better suggestion ... )