ILIO's Groove Control Products Now Shipping
 February 21, 2000
ILIO Entertainments and Spectrasonics have delivered
on the promise of Groove Control, a method of producing sampled groove
libraries that allows the user control over the tempo, pattern, feel,
time signature and mix of live stereo sampled grooves.
Groove
Control activated libraries have already begun shipping. Spectrasonics
has released Retro Funk and a Groove Control version of Liquid Grooves.
ILIO is now shipping Skippy’s Big Bad Beats. Other libraries currently
in production include a special Groove Control edition of Distorted Reality,
plus the Brazilian and BackBeat drum libraries, from Spectrasonics. ILIO
is near completion on Ethno-Techno by Bashiri Johnson. Both companies
plan to release other Groove Control activated libraries in 2000 and are
committed to creating more far into the future.
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Groove Control Diagram
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Groove Control activated sample libraries let you manipulate live, stereo
drum loops in ways never before possible. It doesn’t require any
additional hardware or software to use, just your existing sampler and
sequencer. To use one of the Groove Control activated libraries, you follow
these three simple steps:
1. Find the groove you wish to use on the accompanying audio CD.
2. Load the Groove Control version of that loop into your sampler.
3. Load the corresponding sequence into your sequencer.
Once you’ve copied the Groove Control sequence into your own song
sequence, the drum loop automatically locks to tempo. From there you can
quantize, adjust the feel or pattern, change the time signature, adjust
drum tunings, and more, all in an environment that’s already familiar
to you. So there’s almost no learning curve.
 The
fun really begins when you layer several different loops at various tempos
into one sequence. Without Groove Control, this would amount to a train
wreck, but with Groove Control, all the loops march to the same drummer,
lining up with the current song’s tempo. Start swapping drum sounds
and sequences and you’ve risen to a whole new level, creating completely
fresh grooves with very little effort.
 ILIO
and Spectrasonics consider Groove Control to be a major innovation for
sample libraries. Never before has such flexibility been offered, especially
with live, stereo sampled grooves. These unique capabilities combined
with the excellent drum and percussion performances on the first Groove
Control releases, should make a significant impact on users of drum loops.
For more information, visit Ilio on the web at www.ilio.com.
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