The ReGroove Mixer

Introduction

The ReGroove Mixer combines all the benefits of quantization, shuffle, and groove templates into a single integrated environment, giving you real-time creative control over the feel and timing of individual note lanes. The ReGroove Mixer, which extends from the top of the Transport Panel puts 32 channels of interactive groove control at your fingertips.

If you're familiar with mixing, you're already well on your way toward understanding the ReGroove Mixer. Think of it as a mixer with 32 busses but, instead of these busses modifying the volume of the input tracks, they modify the feel (or groove) of the input tracks. You can route any note lane to one of ReGroove's 32 channels, and that lane's feel and timing are modified, in real-time, by the channel's settings. Each ReGroove channel can use its own groove template or shuffle amount. In addition, each channel can slide notes forward or backward in time, allowing you to put certain tracks slightly ahead or behind the beat, which greatly alters the feel of your music.

Note that ReGroove only works for notes on note lanes.

It’s also possible to lock a control surface to control the ReGroove Mixer parameters via Remote - see “Locking a surface”.

ReGroove basics

When working with grooves, you'll make use of three interacting sections within Reason's interface:

•	First, in the Sequencer, each note lane can be assigned to any of ReGroove's 32 channels.

You assign a note lane to a groove channel by selecting it with the Select Groove pop-up in each note lane.

•	Second is the ReGroove Mixer, which contains both global groove settings and channel-specific ones.

This is described on the following pages.

•	Finally, there's the Groove Settings section of the Tool Window, which is accessed by clicking a ReGroove channel's Edit button.

Groove Settings allow you to set the intensity of various groove patch parameters. This is also where you save your own ReGroove patches. See “Groove Settings”.