Assignment is the process of creating a new Edit Group or moving slices from one group to another. Clicking on the ASSIGN window reveals a drop-down menu that displays the options for creating and customizing Edit Groups.
There are two types of Assignments: AUTOMATIC and MANUAL.
AUTO-ASSIGNED EDIT GROUPS
The lower five sections of the ASSIGN menu are dedicated to creating Edit Groups from pre-determined rhythmic values and grid placements. Spectrasonics has created these Auto-Assignment choices for quick and easy access to multiple slices at once. Whereas a manually created Edit Group starts with one slice, these auto-assign choices can choose several slices at once and place them into a new pre-named Edit Group.
These auto-assigned Edit Groups make for a great start. After their creation, you can always add and remove any number of slices using the ADD / REMOVE feature.
Auto-Assignments may be performed in Groove Menu Mode as well as in Slice Menu Mode.
An Auto-Assignment always works on the slices of the currently selected Groove Element in the Element Name Display and the Browser Elements column.
Once you have chosen an item in the Auto-Assign menu, the appropriate slices are moved to a new Edit Group. This new Edit Group is automatically activated and ready for editing.
AUTO-ASSIGNMENT CHOICES
ASSIGN (1 AND 3) DOWNBEATS
This menu item chooses all slices in the Groove that fall on beats 1 and 3 and creates an Edit Group called “Downbeats.”
ASSIGN (2 AND 4) BACKBEATS
This menu item chooses all slices in the Groove that fall on beats 2 and 4 and creates an Edit Group called “Backbeats.”
ASSIGN (3) HALFTIME BACKBEATS
This menu item chooses all slices in the Groove that fall on beat 3 and creates an Edit Group called “Halftime Backbeats.”
ASSIGN (1) FIRST 16TH
This menu item chooses the first 16th slice of each Quarter note over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1st 16th.”
ASSIGN (e) SECOND 16TH
This menu item chooses the second 16th slice of each Quarter note over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “2nd 16th.”
ASSIGN (&) UPBEATS
This menu item chooses the third 16th slice of each Quarter note over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “Upbeats.”
ASSIGN (a) FOURTH 16TH
This menu item chooses the fourth 16th slice of each Quarter note over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “4th 16th.”
ASSIGN 1/1 – WHOLE NOTES
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on the first beat of each measure over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/1.”
ASSIGN 1/2 – HALF NOTES
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on beats 1 and 3 over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/2.”
(This is the same as choosing the Downbeats option).
ASSIGN 1/4 – QUARTERS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Quarter-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/4.”
ASSIGN 1/8 – EIGHTHS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Eighth-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/8.”
ASSIGN 1/16 – SIXTEENTHS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Sixteenth-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/16.”
ASSIGN 1/32
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on 32nd-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/32.”
ASSIGN 1/48 (rare use)
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on 48th-note beats (32nd-note triplets) over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/48.”
ASSIGN 1/64
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on 64th-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/64.”
ASSIGN 1/96 (rare use)
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on 96th-note beats (64th-note triplets) over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/96.”
It is very likely that ALL the slices of a Groove will end up in this Edit Group if this option is chosen.
ASSIGN 3/4 DOTTED HALFS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Dotted Half-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “3/4.”
ASSIGN 3/8 DOTTED QUARTERS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Dotted Quarter-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “3/8.”
ASSIGN 3/16 DOTTED EIGHTHS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Dotted Eighth-note beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “3/16.”
ASSIGN 1/3 HALF NOTE TRIPLETS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Half-Note Triplet beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/3.”
ASSIGN 1/6 QUARTER NOTE TRIPLETS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Quarter-Note Triplet beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/6.”
ASSIGN 1/12 EIGHTH NOTE TRIPLETS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Eighth-Note Triplet beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/12.”
ASSIGN 1/24 SIXTEENTH NOTE TRIPLETS
This menu item chooses all slices that fall on Sixteenth-Note Triplet beats over the entire Groove and creates an Edit Group called “1/24.”
It’s helpful to watch the Edit Groups tutorials for a demo.
