Capturing Human Feel & Groove in Your Drum Programming 

Beautifully explained and the non drummers are forever grateful.

I learned more in this video than 2 years at an audio engineering college. I wish you were my teacher back then, but glad to see your videos now!

This is a good reminder that even if you have been on the reason platform for years you still dont know everything. This video just blew my mind.

Genius feature in Reason that I never knew about. Seriously, I`ve been using Reason since 2005 and I swear, I`m still only scratching the surface.

this is by far one of the best Reason tips. Thank you!

This video blew my mind 🤯. Thank you for being the best at what and how teaching us in your amazing tutorials, Ryan 🙌🏻💚🔥

That's witchcraft sir!🔥🔥🔥

Dude..... I play most of my beats with my midi controller, but still, this is going to be massively useful! Just tested it out real fast and it worked perfectly... man! That's going to be damn useful!

This tutorial is a gem!

This is an amazing feature for real!

Absolutely zoombadabba brilliant!!

Yeah the groovemixer always has been a great tool

One of the best features I have yet to use!

What sorcery is this?! I have not know about this trick and I genuinely feel this is exactly what I need in my music production. Thank you!

Used Reason for 10 years + and it still amazes me. Absolutely love it.

As a boom bap producer, this is EXACTLY the type of tutorials needed.

Gold, pure gold. Thank you Ryan.

I've been trying to figure out the easiest way to utilize the ReGroove mixer for ages and this tip finally unveiled it for me! Thanks Ryan!

the regroove mixer is an indispensable tool in any of my productions. great vid again ryan!

I love your video's when they are about Reason as a DAW. You should try that more often.

This is a wonderful little twitch with a potentially huge impact. I will try this out next time for sure!

Whoa! That's so good. I'm going to grab the groove from stevie wonder's opening drums from superstition. My all-time favourite swung track

Amazing tutorial, Ryan! We appreciate you and the Reason Studios Team! 💯

I enjoy spending time making my beats swing and groove but it can take awhile, the possibilities here are endless and you make it look so easy

"Extract Groove From Clip" is an underrated feature every Reason user must know! :D Thanks for highlighting this nifty feature! :D

Holy crap this is so smart! I’ve been just adjusting things with snap off, and changing velocity. What a time saver!

This is sooooo much easier than converting a clip to a Rex file first. Also, i didn’t know that it takes velocity into account

Fantastic video! I've never fully understood how to use the groove function outside of just adding some swing. Would love to learn even more depth!

More videos from Ryan - the best music and comedy 😜 tutorials on the Net!

I'm a cubase user and used this concept to trace a audio pattern and convert to midi as shown in your guide. It worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

THIS is the key to a whole kingdom. Thank you, Ryan!

I love the way things move in the back as you talk

As always, Reason got the best tutorials among competitors :)

Amazing, more stuff like this would be most appreciated, Ryan :)

Been using this technique for years. I love all the features Reason has. The Re-Groove Mixer is Must. 👊🎶

My Guy Ryan..!! Always coming through with the game changers!!

This is incredibly helpful. Thanks!

Wow that is so awesome! Thank you for sharing this amazing technique!

This is a very useful technique, especially useful with players. Drummers I've known use nonsense words and phrases like :Ka Ching Ka Chang" to get a feel a lot, not just for grooves, but pickups and fills "(Pat Boone Debbie Boone"). But the ones I've seen use them most are horn sections, where the horns have to lock in the groove to play tight. "Lumpdy Lumpdy" is a common feel, but everyone's favourite is "A Rump A Rump"

I have been using the Groove Mixer for years to get a feel in my programmed drum tracks but this trick seems golden to me. Definitely gonna try this one when I'm back home. 🙂

These videos constantly reinforce the complete JOY I get from making music in Reason. I’ve been a user since the very beginning - thank you for continuing to feed pure creativity. ❤

Awesome! Now I just got to find the time to experiment with this - thank you! 🙏

Wow! Very cool. I've read the manual and I somehow didn't know about this. Definitely going to implement this. Thx Ryan :)

Ryan, another great tutorial video - thank you! I knew about extracting grooves before so this wasn’t new to me. But I’d forgotten how powerful the technique can be. And great to see another RS video that showcases the Reason DAW.

This is one of the things I particularly love about reason... reason has been able to do this since 2006 .... I was hoping there was an update so it would be even more accurate...

Great tip Ryan - just added to my Reason Tips folder👌

Wow, that's crazy! Never thought of that kind of technique :D

This is easily one of the most useful and helpful vids that have come out of this channel. I've never delved into the groove functions and was always a little perplexed by how to use them. Granted, I should RTFM more than I have done. I'd definitely like to see the groove functions expanded upon more. One thing that I thought about during this vid is that not all of the musicians would play perfectly in time to that one groove, so even more imperfections need to be programmed in; one groove for each musician that's based on the drummer's groove. Keep vids like this one coming please Ryan.

Thank you for reminding us for this powerful technique inside of Reason! But dang, Ryan, now Zoombadaba is stuck into my head for the whole day 😅

Holy balls.. this is some awesome tutorial. Exploded my noggin.....

just recently rediscovered the ReGroove mixer after learning more about classic house and disco drum patterns. I like the swing implementation and the customizability, especially with the "get groove" function as Ryan showed in the video. Def. going to use it a lot more in my future productions. And as always great tutorial from Ryan! keep it up. PS: the "commit to groove" command is also a fantastic way to understand what happened with the MIDI notes.

Holly Shit! What an incredible technic! Thank you sooooo much guys!

Fantastic as always Ryan, I’m gonna have some fun with this!

Well this is alot better way to add swing then what I was doing, Thanks Ryan proving once again why your the chosen face of Reason. Good job.

Wow, that is just magic - pulling audio over midi track to get the groove, awesome!

Yes, It is the most important video in this year.

This is really awesome! I will use the groove mixer really more often now - now that I've learned how to "steal" groove from audio tracks.

Ryan, you and Reason are heroes!!

That was awesome. Thanks for teaching us to use that thing.

What can I say... it's honestly another one of Reason's wonderful powers! I have traveled to Jupiter with this video. Thank you.

"We are set up for greatness now!" - Ryan, 2023 No truer words have ever been spoken! I already knew Reason was great (own it since V2.5), but this is my personal epiphany towards Reason! I can feel it: the way I compose will change from this day onward!

Wow! Ryan.. that's the best yet... again wow!

That beat at the end though! Now THAT'S the groove!

Wow, a real revelation, especially the audio-to-midi moment. I guess this would work well with bass, too. Great tutorial.

Incredible !!!!!😳 I will zombadaba all my tracks tonight ! Thanks for it 👍

Absolute gold!!! Thanks so much for this! And that track you made is dreamy.

So Ryan, how about this… Why not start showing things that Reason does that stands apart from other DAWs? To show the different things you can do.! Cause this one was a gem..!!! #Reasongang

this was one of the best and most amazing tips I've seen on youtube in the last few months. Simply Sensational. Thank you very much 🤘😀👋👋👋

I never knew you could put audio into the midi sequencer and it analyzed the velocity dynamics and timing.. so dope

I always had the Groove Mixer in my mind, I just didn't use it, because I didn't know how. I'm hungry for such tutorials. Thank you, Ryan!

I appreciate your videos a lot Ryan!

That was amazing. Not watching any more videos this year!!

Wow! Great job in educating the reason community. Thank u thank u thank u!

This was by far the most exciting tip ever Ryan! Thank you so much for that! I would have never dared to put an audio clip on my MIDI channels..... and now I can't wait to try!

This is going to be a massive game-changer. Thanks for the tutorial, Ryan!

You always seem to open new possibilities in the realm of creativity! Thank you Sir!😉

I finally understand this concept! My only suggestion would be to implement a way for Players ro receive groove data from a ReGroove mixer rather than having to bounce directly to the sequencer first.

Wow……you all just literally unlocked something that I’m going to abuse haha!!! Thanks for the vids, keep em coming, new subscriber here!!

How you Ryan always know what I need to know? 😂🤩 Keep them coming! 💪🏼

Thanks - finally understand the groove function - well explained and really valuable !!!!

Been using reason since ver. 1 and still to this day it blows my mind. Phenomenal easy to follow video by the way!!👏👏👏

thanks, this was exactly what I needed. I've tried pretty much all DAWs and keep coming back to reason.

Just. Wow. Thanks Ryan.

Blew my mind! Reason is the greatest! Are you not entertained?!

Fuuuuuck that’s a great feature!!! I’m gonna do this to my completed rock song’s drum track tomorrow and see what I get. Thank you.

been doing this, but cool u could spread the message to a bigger audience to show the greatness of Reason. cheers ryan!

Groove Mixer's always been something of a 'what can this really do for me' part of Reason. Not anymore! Cheers, Ryan!

I did not know about dragging Audio to a MIDI Track!! The other things I knew but that was a good share. :-)

Super helpful. Also straight and to the point.

Fabulous way to bring a more human feel to programmed beats. Wish I'd learned this sooner!

wow, this is amazing! Now I need to check out your groove and analyze the timing to adapt it🙂

I have to try this now. Simply wow.

Oh wow! Thanks great video I shall now be getting my feels from the whole universe 😊

It goes without saying you put forward great ideas but this one really is on a whole other level. When I finish typing this I'm gonna start zoombadabing every single note in my song, getting the groove and pitching to taste. My inner 17 year old air guitarist is itching to go Bill and Ted mode with Reason 🤘🤣

As much as I wanna thank you for this, I seem to have a problem I can't fix. I've tried everything to make my tracks sound human: applying extracted grooves (which won't really work if they beat has no 16ths), using Kong's physical modeling with varying snare hits, manually offsetting hits by fractions of seconds (and checking at 50 bpm to see if it sounds OK), randomizing velocities even within chords, varying note lengths, changing chord voicings here and there, adding keyboard flourishes like a keyboard player would etc. etc. etc. I've given up using synthetic guitars and am about to give up synthetic bass, too. The big challenge, I think, is that I am trying (emphasis on trying) to emulate the hi-fi sound of the late 70s and early 80s, by the likes of The Doobie Brothers and Pages. You know, AOR, yacht rock etc. These guys were aiming at machine-like perfection, which of course they could never get. I am aiming at the imperfect perfection they've actually achieved. The irony is that two of the records I would most like my drum tracks to sound like were actually programmed (Steely Dan's Gaucho, on a "Wendel", and Hiroshi Sato's Awakening, on a Linn). Do you have any broader ideas to share, other than the usual fine-tuned sequencer tweeks?

Nice job!!! I sooo needed this tutorial right now. Kuddos my friend!

Exactly what I needed. 😍😍😍

That's a fantastic hint - thank you thank you thank you!

Great lesson. THanks.

That was simply incredible. Damn.