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Groove Detective MIDI for Windows

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This app provides a powerful search tool for your MIDI drum loop collection. It analyzes loops and creates a searchable database, allowing you to find specific patterns quickly.

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Groove Detective MIDI 0/1

  • Pros

    • Searches loops based on drum hit patterns, not file names or folders.
    • Offers flexible search options, from specific to fuzzy matching.
    • Integrates drag-and-drop functionality into DAWs.
    • Refines searches with filters like tempo and pitched-ness.
    • Provides a drum machine-like interface for searching.

  • Cons

    • Exclusively works with MIDI files.
    • Lacks the 'sounds like' search feature of the full version.
    • Does not support audio files.
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.2
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 2003
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
161
Downloads Last Week
7
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Developer’s Description

By CPU Productions
Find the loops you need in your MIDI drum loop collection, using a drum machine type interface.
Groove Detective MIDI is a low cost alternative to the full version of Groove Detective. The only difference is that it will work with MIDI files exclusively. In all other respects it is identical to its bigger sibling.

Groove Detective is a groundbreaking new tool for searching in large collections of drum and percussion loops. As producers' and musicians' collection of audio and MIDI loops used in music productions of all stripes grows steadily year by year, so does the accompanying problem of finding exactly what you need, when you need it. Groove Detective solves this problem once and for all. By analyzing all the loops the user has and consolidating all the data in a single searchable database, it no longer matters where the loop is stored. The information in the database allows the user to search for loops based on the pattern of drum hits in the loop itself, not on how it is named or in which folder it resides.

The search pattern can be made as narrowly specific or as widely fuzzy as one wishes, depending on the need of the moment. There is also an option of including a "sounds like" dimension to a search (full version only). For example, if one is looking for loops that have a particular snare drum sound, one need only provide that sound to the search engine and the degree to which the sound should match. In the result browser one can further refine the search by filtering on tempo, 'pitched-ness', file type, sample rate and so on. Once a choice has been made, the loop can simply be dragged into a track in the DAW production software (if it is so enabled), without ever having to enter any file open or import dialog. Works with all audio formats (full version only) and MIDI. If your loop library has grown too big for you to remember what's in it, this app will bring it all back.
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