Music & Audio

Generate MIDI groove pattern

Use this simple tool to construct a midi bar containing 4 bars of the rhythm pattern you select. The resulting midi files should be easy to turn into a groove pattern template in typical DAWs like Logic or StudioOne.

Once you've created such a groove pattern, simply make sure everything in your song is quantized to this pattern. But don't mix! If you use one of these patterns, all your instruments must follow that same pattern.

Name / description	Ratios	Construction / actual pattern
West African triplets I	3:3:4	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker
West African triplets II	4:3:3	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker
Chad/Sudan baggara	4:2:3:3	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker
Basic samba	4:4:4:5	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker
Cumbia I	5:3:4	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker
Cumbia II	4:2:3	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker
India shuffle	3:2	Generate MIDI	Show in a tracker

See also this page which shows how such non-western world rhythms can be analyzed.

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