UJAM Groovemate ONE

Full Description

Your secret weapon of production

This small but significant production tool couldn't be simpler. UJAM Groovemate ONE provides you with the 'holy trinity' of quintessential percussion instruments used extensively throughout contemporary productions including tambourine, claps and shakers. Perfect for any genre with a heavy sense of rhythm and groove, Groovemate One adds feeling and authenticity to your tracks.

The selection of instruments has been purposefully limited to stop you from losing creative focus, quickly adding the final spice to your tracks or projects to help lift important sections. Gelling well with any style of mix, genre or other instruments around them, the Groovemate ONE's tambourines, shakers and claps aren't melodic instruments, meaning they don't take up space where other instruments occupy such as piano, vocals or guitar and instead help to enhance the groove and rhythm of your tracks.

Add brightness and character to snare hits by reinforcing with a clap, add dynamic and groove to a high-hat rhythm with shakers or using a combination of all three, transform boring pop choruses into a groovy passage that gets people moving up off their feet.

Beauty in simplicity

Built around a collection of 30 phrases, UJAM Groovemate ONE's primary focus is to help you to maintain your creative spark. As simple as loading up the plug-in, selecting one of the 30 pre-built phrases, tweaking a few parameters and you'll be on your way to a more impactful and groovy production. The 30 onboard patterns are meticulously crafted to offer a range of styles and beats, from complex and sophisticated rhythms such as 3/4 syncopations to the straight-forward four to the floor. Well-labelled, each phrase is given a description to help quickly identify the style of the groove you need for your track. Performed with a human touch and not overly quantised, Groovemate ONE is the perfect solution for lifting your funk, jazz, hip-hop, trap or even samba tracks to the next level.

For more experienced producers that wish to dial in your percussion grooves, UJAM Groovemate ONE offers micro-timing variances including quantisation and swing control. If any of the 30 onboard preset phrases aren't sufficient for your project, the drag-and-drop MIDI functionality allows you further customise your pattern in your DAW.

Limiting the amount of tonal shaping, Groovemate ONE includes nine mixing presets and four reverb settings to change the overall character and ambience of your track quickly. From vintage to modern production styles to expansive halls and tight plates, Groovemate ONE can be tuned to fit virtually any mix style, regardless of genre.

Reviews

"A small but perfectly formed package, Groovemate ONE is effortlessly intuitive, sonically delightful and cheap as chips, and we can’t think of an easier way to bring instant percussive sparkle and groove to any dance or pop production." - Production Expert

Features

• Create music without overthinking. Select between inspiring presets to get to work instantly
• Tempo sync to your host DAW to trigger patterns in time with your session
• Fully-detailed captures of four instruments including shaker, tambourine, hand claps and one-shot shaker
• Ideal for everything from modern dance hits, smooth and soulful funk and jazz, classic garage or Latin bossa-nova and samba
• 30 unique presets phrases include a description of the groove
• Each preset combines a style and appropriate reverb and mix settings to achieve a signature sound
• Phrase presets can be a combination of all four instruments or solo
• Micro-timing parameters offer quantization for selected rhythms and styles alongside a swing control to add shuffle and movement to your performances
• Drag and drop MIDI phrases into your DAW for further processing and editing
• Nine mix presets alter the overall tonal character of your sound
• Four ambience presets provide unqiue reverb tonalities from rooms, springs and plate-style reverbs
• Lock mix and ambience preset settings to scroll through different phrases whilst maintaining settings

Specifications

System requirements

• Operating Systems:
  • Mac: macOS X 10.11 or later - 64-bit
  • Windows: Windows 7 or later - 64-bit
• Format:
  • Mac: VST, AU2, AAX
  • Windows: VST, AAX
• RAM: 4GB
• Disk space: 900MB
• Display: 1280 x 768px

General

• Authorisation: Internet connection required
• Product code: GM-ONE