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- This README accompanies DNA DEMO - Freeware disk for Cubase.
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- DNA Groove Templates - A Revolution in Sequencing
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- The Rhythm is the soul, the essense, the thread that binds great
- music together. Rhythm is intensely personal, individual, at
- least it used to be until the introduction of the Digital Drum
- Machine.
-
- The entry of computers on the Music scene during the MIDI
- revolution, created a new universal instant rhythm politely
- termed Quantize. Rhythm became fixed, constant, common,
- mathematically defined by a micro-chip.
-
- The convenience of normal quantizing tends to result in music
- that is crystalized into a rhythmic straight jacket. A straight
- jacket that chases the individuality out of your creative
- sequences.
-
- Despite the advances in sequencer resolution software developers
- have provided no convenient ways of taking advantage of the high
- resolution. By quantizing to 16th notes, a sequencer's
- resolution is dramatically reduced to 4 pulses per quarter.
- Absolutely inadequate for communicating most musical ideas.
-
- Throughout our research, we have never encountered a musician
- that plays quantized. While there are certain situations when a
- musician may want to use quantization, musicians need an option.
-
- With Steinberg's Cubase Sequencer, musicians can now program
- their own quantize templates and impose non-linear, user-defined
- rhythms on their music.
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- DNA Groove Templates capture live performances by great musicians
- that have great feels. These templates are provided within a
- comprehensive environment that allows for powerful rhythmic
- processing.
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- DNA breaks down audio material into it's rhythmic components.
- The relationship between noets is captured and translated into a
- 2 bar Groove template. Groove Templates can then be saved to
- disk. This means that you can create a library of feels tha same
- way you create a library of sounds for synths and samplers.
-
- The feel is displayed on easy to understand Feel Charts. These
- charts can be used to compare the templates on disk and predict
- what their sound will be. Feel charts very quickly show the
- rhythmic compatibilities between different templates and allow
- for very precise and definitive modifications to their feel.
-
- DNA doesn't stop there, it provides Motions that manipulate the
- template in hundreds of ways. Each Motion acts on certain points
- within the template. Some are meant to simulate Fills and
- others, to simulate lags, pushes and shuffles. This allows for
- very precise rhythmic placement of every note in your sequence.
- The result - your music takes on a distinct feel, with each
- instrument having its own subtle variation. Never before has
- rhythmic feel been as easy to control on a computer.
-
- DNA provides templates in 10 Beat Divisions. You can therefore
- translate the feel to music played with 8th note triplets or 3
- against 4, among many other rhythmic signatures.
-
- Best of all, DNA comes with a comprehensive 38 page manual that
- makes using the grooves both educational and fun. The
- possibilities are endless - within one set, there are thousands
- of combinations of different feels. If you want to expand your
- music into new dimensions, you cannot afford to be without this
- powerful feel processor. Get into the groove.
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- DNA Def.Grv
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- All these grooves are based on the same piece of music.
- Therefore all these grooves will have coherence and can be used
- together. All grooves are 2 bars long. All grooves are based on
- a 4/4 time signature. All groove are 16th notes, unless
- otherwise specified.
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- Straight - This is a mostly straight groove. Most notes will
- push especially towards the end of each bar.
- Push B2&4 - This will push (or make earlier) notes that fall on
- the second and fourth beats of each bar. This is great to try on
- a snare drum.
- Late B2&4 - This is the opposite of the above.
- Push P234 - This pushes the second, third and fourth sixteenth
- notes within each beat. This can be used to create a rushing
- hihat (or any highly syncopated parts).
- Late P234 - This is the opposite of the above.
- Push B1&3 - This pushes the first and third downbeats of each
- bar. This is useful in create a rushing kick drum or downbeat.
- Late B1&3 - This is the opposite of the above.
- 8 Triplet - This creates a non-linear, but very musical eight-
- note triplet groove. This is useful for your Jazz and Ballad
- sequences.
- 16 Triplet - This is a non-linear sixteenth note triplet groove.
- Great for solos and fast drum fills over triplet signatures.
- This works well with the above groove.
- SOLO 3a4 - This contains a combination of a 16th note and an 8th
- note triplet groove. This is very useful for solos where both
- these signatures are played.
- Shfl S2&4 - This is a soft shuffle of the second and fourth
- sixteenth notes of each beat. This is great for just about any
- kind of music fron Dance to Rock to Reggae.
- Shfl M2&4 - This is a medium shuffle. A little stronger than the
- above.
- Shfl H2&4 - This is a heavy shuffle. Even stronger than the
- above.
- Move All - This creates a significant shift in whole areas of
- notes. This is useful for drum fills and solos.
- Push Fill - This creates a change in feel where the last bar is
- rushed. this is typical of most drum fills.
- Late Fill - This is the opposite of the above.
- DNA 32nd - This is a one bar template containing non-linear 32nd
- notes.
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- Use Cubase's power to manipulate notes - Key Editor, Iterative
- Quantize, Track Shifting etc. and of course your imagination.
-
- All DNA Grooves by Ray Williams & Ernest Cholakis
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- The DNA Groove Template Library
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- DANCE I : All Around the World, Everybody Everybody, Good Times,
- Justify My Love, Symptoms of Loneliness, Wanna be Starting
- Something.
- DANCE II : Billie Jean, Burn Rubber, Change, Keep On Movin, Le
- Freak, The Power.
- MOTOWN I : Cloud Nine, Keep on Truckin, Love Child, Maneater,
- Reflections, Superstition.
- NEW JACK SWING : Don't Wanna Fall in Love, I wanna Get with U, I
- Want Her, New Formula, OPP, Teddy's Jam.
- ROCK I : Fool in the Rain, Give it Up, Heartbreaker, Radar Love,
- Smoke on the Water, So Lonely.
- SOUL I: Boogie on Reggae Woman, Can't Hide Love, Cherry Pie,
- Funky Drummer, Mercy Mercy Me, Spanish Harlem.
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- Coming soon: Reggae, Funk & Jazz.
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- For more information contact your nearest Steinberg Dealer,
- Steinberg GMBH or:
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- WC Music Research
- PO Box 1275, Station K
- Toronto, Ontario
- Canada. M4P 3E5
- Tel: 416 444-6644
- FAX: 416 496-2884
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- ** The Rhythm of Life **
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