Groove Machine Synth Presets
Sourced from projects contained in the Groove Machine plugin and Groove Machine Mobile app, these royalty free loops allow inspirational usage in the full FL Studio. The sliced loops are ideal for use in the Slicex plugin. Rearrange the playback order of slices or apply creative envelopes for example. Un-sliced loops for easy drag and drop to the playlist as audio clips. Melodic loops are based on the musical key of A for easy mix and match of different parts playing together.
Also included are one shot drum and synth samples and corresponding FL Studio Sampler Channel presets.Genre Comment bylove ya fl 2019-06-11T13:57:13Z Comment byGreat @BeatiSounds music! 2016-06-17T22:16:15Z Comment bymanuela navarro 2016-03-28T21:29:26Z Comment bymanuela 2016-03-28T21:28:13Z Comment byWhoa! 2016-03-04T16:17:54Z.License: all-rights-reserved.
Frustratingly, most of Groove Machine's preset grooves only showcase its limitations. Image-Line Groove MachineFor a generation of producers who have grown up with DAWs, it's hard to imagine a time when you couldn't download the exact same tools that your idols use and get busy with them in your own productions.But back in the '90s, each piece of kit cost hundreds or even thousands of pounds, so the all-in-one 'groovebox' units from the likes of Roland were an attractive way of getting started.'
Despite a large range of waveforms and a healthy supply of presets to showcase them, Groove Machine's synth sounds just don't have any real balls or bite.' They offered drums, synths, sampling (eventually) and step-sequencing that was popularised by classic 80s machines. In reality, though, none of the tracks you bought or heard in the club were made on grooveboxes - their digital sounds, processing and mixing simply did not sound good enough back then.However, now that we find ourselves in a world of super-fast computer processing, perhaps it's time to revisit the concept? It seems that Image-Line thinks soGroove Machine looks the business, certainly. It offers eight drum/sample channels (each with four sample layers), five hybrid synths (each with multimode filters, three oscillators, two LFOs and two envelopes), 10 effects per channel, stutter and reverse, eight 8-bar patterns, per-step automation, full MIDI control,multiple outputs, VST/AU instrument orstandalone operation and a piano roll step and automation editor.
Phew!Let's talk about drums first. Each of the four sample layers can be edited, offset, reversed, filtered and have envelope controls applied independently, making this a pretty formidable tool. The samples are fairly good, with some characterful examples reminiscent of another Image-Line plug-in, the excellent Drumaxx.Next come the synths, and this is where we start to feel some traditional groovebox limitations.
Despite a large range of waveforms and a healthy supply of presets to showcase them, the sounds just don't have any real balls or bite.You can make some uninspiring trance or passable pop-progressive house, but when it comes to the kind of driving filth that permeates almost every contemporary electronic genre, Groove Machine is lacking. This is a shame, as the unit makes LFO-driven dubsteppy wuh-wuh-wobbles a breeze to program.As for the effects, they're great.
All 10 performance effects are fun and very usable, and the slicing and reversing tools are so uniformly excellent that we actually found ourselves loading in sliced loops of tracks, just so we could use its performance tools to create glitch edits.The fantastic sidechaining effect, panner and some brilliant LFO-driven filters are also highlights. Image-Line has really missed a trick by not offering an effects-only version of the plug-in, however. Out of the grooveIn times gone by, the measure of a groovebox was its built-in sounds, but as soon as you could throw sampling into the mix, the interface and tools became more important.Groove Machine certainly offers sampling - and acquits itself quite well in this respect - but in any plug-in of this type, the battery of included sounds is still very important. Unfortunately, in respect of the sample-based patches and other presets, Groove Machine is amixed bag.If you make progressive-sounding genres, there are plenty of cool sounds and grooves to get you going. Take a quick listen to any of the excellent presets by Toby Emerson and you will hear how nice Groove Machine can sound.There are lots of useful, posh-sounding big-room percussive noises for pop and dance. The rest of the preset grooves show up the limitations; none of the dubstep, acid or supposedly ballsy synths quite make the grade.There are some interesting and cool drum sounds, just as in sister instrument Drumaxx, but whereas that is a quirky drum machine playing a part in a broader sonic tapestry, Groove Machine is designed for producing entire grooves. Even when fully loaded with your own drum samples, the under-powered synths let Groove Machine down.
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Groovy delightsThe positives return, though, with Groove Machine's sequencer. The great strength of grooveboxes, be they hardware or software, has always been the speed with which you can build up patterns.