Groove Control(TM) Changes Tempo of Live Grooves

January 28, 1999 -- ILIO Entertainments and Spectrasonics have combined forces to create Groove Control(TM), a method of creating sampled groove libraries that allows unprecedented control over the tempo, pattern, feel, time signature and mix of live stereo sampled grooves. Groove Control will be a feature included on many new releases from ILIO and Spectrasonics, including special editions of Spectrasonics' Liquid Grooves and Distorted Reality, plus their new Retro Funk, Brazilian and BackBeat drum libraries, Bizarre Guitar and Vocal Planet. ILIO's first Groove Control activated releases will be Ethno-Techno by Bashiri Johnson and Skippy's Big Bad Beats, with more on the way. All of these products will be available by Spring of 1999.

Groove Control activated libraries let you manipulate live, stereo drum loops in ways never before possible. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that 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:

Find the groove you wish to use on the accompanying audio CD.
Load the Groove Control version of that loop into your sampler.
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 here 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 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. Start swapping drum sounds and sequences and you've risen to a whole new level, creating completely fresh grooves with hardly any 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.

Groove Control(TM) is a registered trademark of ILIO Entertainments and Spectrasonics.

For more information, visit their web site at www.ilio.com.