Native midi groove plugin

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baseinstinct
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Native midi groove plugin

Post by baseinstinct » Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:51 pm

Something on-the-fly like pitch or velocity plugins but for groove.

Essentially, would enable all the tricks that can be done by dragging grooves on midi clips - but even before the clips are recorded.
Useful especially if a (destination) track picks up midi from another (source) track and you don't want to record that into a midi clip yet. You may still want to keep the advantages of the dynamic link with the source track so that changes in the source track will still be reflected in the destination track.

Some technicalities
- Drag and drop a groove onto the effect or have them as presets but drag and drop seems more universal - or even 'sidechain' track to share its the groove and accenting
- Base and range setting the same as pitch, or better, piano roll panel to unwrap like the bigger display in Spectrum and click to select which notes or drum instruments to apply to
- Dry/wet knob for making changes progressive
- Other settings - as in groove the pool

That would be a killer effect. Ghost notes from the source track would affect the destination track. More unpredictability locally (within the pattern) but better integration between the musicians / across the tracks.

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