Just thought I’d get some technical advie posted here for those who are interested. I’ll keep it in english though, French users can always email / meet me.

Here is a classic problem with electronic music. It lacks groove. Either you use a MIDI controller and are proficient enough with it to get the right groove, or you just don’t groove. In the end, some products such as Propellerhead Reason now have a groove tool, and a bunch of presets to go with it.

But if the presets are not what you like, you still have to go through a controller. Well not anymore. Just get a microphone. Low-fi, who cares. You can sing badly that doesn’t mater either. The whole point is just to go « poum tcha taka taka » in your mic, feel very stupid, and get the rythm out of your voice. Singing along in rythm is easy. And groovy.

Once recorded, you can just get the groove from the wavefile. I use Cockos Reaper‘s drumtrigger plugins to get a midi file. Once the file is in your hads, open it up in Reason, get the groove from the clip (make sure you are editing the right groove slot) and apply that user groove to whatever track you want.