lol, mate, I'm certainly no expert. not even close. Unless you were being sarcastic?

By groove, I'm talking mainly about the swing and general rhythm of the track. The sounds of the percs I dont have an issue with. But the bassline is on the offbeat. The lead synths follow a similar pattern. This in itself isnt an issue if that is what you are going for. But when the perc patterns are also on the 8ths as well, it all becomes very monotonous and almost drags the track along rather than inject energy into it.

Try playing around with applying groove/swing (whatever your daw calls it) on different percs to see what happens.

Try adding single one hit percs in certain places in your loop. What I mean by this is you may have for example - 3 or 4 different perc sounds that each only hit once over a bar but if placed correctly, they will together add a new dimension to your loop. Have your existing loop playing as you add each one hit perc and often with a bit of shifting around, you'll suddently hear where they need to be.

Don't forget to mess with velocity levels for each perc hit as well as accentuating certain hits and leaving others quieter can give a different feel to the loop.

Hope this helps, apologies if you know all this already.

Incidentally I haven't done anything since May last year due to a bad back not allowing me to sit at the computer for any significant length of time

Good luck with it!

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