In the manual you will find instructions on how to access the song-settings page where the groove settings are described.

The groove settings feature is great, but only applies to the complete song.

Also, the alternative methods of  speed and tempo tricks,  explained on the same page, affect the whole pattern for the rows used.  So, how do we isolate things further?

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 will 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, the following procedures were used 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 too.
-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(zero) 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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