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Accent
Fill
In Groove Agent YOU are the band leader, the conductor! Hit the but-
ton when you feel it's time for a fill, and Groove Agent will obey. If you
hit the button early in a bar, you'll hear more of the fill bar than if you hit
the button late in a bar. Armed with this knowledge, you can turn even
the wilder fills into more discrete (short) ones.
Please note that in most styles the fills end with a crash cymbal on the
downbeat of the next bar, just like a live drummer. You can turn this ef-
fect off on the Setup page.
Speaking of arming, you can actually start a pattern with a fill. When
Groove Agent is stopped, hitting the fill button will arm it, so that click-
ing the Run button makes Groove Agent start playing with a fill.
Each style has 25 complexity levels. This also applies to fills; the lower
numbered fills tend to be less busy than the ones with higher numbers.
Some musical styles have a definite 2 or 4-bar pattern feel to them.
While an irregular (e.g. 7 or 9) bar period in your music may cause such
a pattern to sound wrong ("one bar late"), it's reassuring to know that af-
ter a fill the music always restarts at "bar 1" in such a pattern.
Fills can also be used for endings. Hit the Fill button in the last bar of
your song and then the Stop button on the last beat.
This button triggers a kick + crash cymbal hit. You
may use it as an accent in your song. When hit at an
offbeat, the accent hit becomes a syncope. The cur-
rent drum pattern stops for as long as you keep the
button pressed. Holding down the Accent button for
approximately one quarter note after you hit it on an
off-beat creates a very realistic syncope.
This is one of the most rewarding buttons of Groove
Agent! A drum machine that plays its patterns very regu-
larly and automatically triggers a fill every 8th bar will
sound right most of the time but certainly not always.
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