In the manual you can find the song-settings page where the groove settings are described.

These groove settings however apply to the complete song. Also the speed and tempo tricks section explained on that page as an alternative, are at least affecting the whole pattern for the rows that you use these tricks.

In the following movie we are going to show you how to generate a simple 50% groove pattern on a single note-column and at the second part of the movie, we demonstrate the same method to apply a groove pattern to the full track.
Also, this trick does not affect synchronisation problems to external hosts or plugin effects that cannot handle swift timing effects, which is an extra plus benefit as well.

To clarify some of the actions done in the movie:We pick a delay value of 2 to apply on each second row.
To apply a 50% groove everything needs to be sliced by 2, else there won’t be a 50% groove, so we place a delay command on every second row.
Then there is the amount of delay we can apply and as we work with individual tracks or notecolumns, we can only use the delay command to achieve this local effect and the delay command is affected by the speedfactor which you have to divide by 2 as well.
The example song in the movie used speed 6 which is 3 when you divide this number by 2. However…
Each row starts at the first tick which is position 0 for Renoise and not position 1. Basically a speed to effect command translation table would look like this:

So for that reason, we say speed divided by two minus 1 which means: 6 / 2 = 3 -1 gives you the value of 2 for the delay effect command.
For every command that is based on ticks, this table applies. The higher the speed value, the more ticks in a row you have, the higher the integrity of your effect commands can be.
But that falls outside the scope of this tutorial. (You can read more about that at this location.)

That was for the background information, now go and watch the movie…

Note that you need to manually pause the movie when you see a text balloon as they swiftly pass by during the movie

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