playing grooves , no output showing

[billphreets]

hi ppl..

in ableton 8 , when i drag one of the `grooves` (.agr files) into a midi channel i get `midi to` no output as default.. master out isnt an option, what am i doing wrong here?? the meters are showing a signal ! none of teh available options give me any sound.. this must be something simple im missing.... if i drag a vsti into a midi channel i get `midi to` master out as default no problem..
what am i doing wrong??

[UKRuss]

Might have misunderstood here, but you don't 'play' grooves in that sense, the grooves are applied to clips.

Put an instrument in the midi channel, draw some notes in a clip and set the clip playing. Then drag the groove into the clip, or use the grooves selector in clip view to apply a groove from the groove pool.

swing citeh!

[billphreets]

d`oh !!

[milfhuntr]

A groove is not music and does not produce sound. It just changes the quantization of a beat you have already made to suit certain styles of music.