Groove Detective MIDI Released

CPU Productions today announced the  release of Groove Detective MIDI, a  low-cost version of the groundbreaking drum-loop search utility Groove Detective that will work on MIDI  files exclusively. The price is slated to be less than a third of the full  version.

All features and capabilities of the  original that are not relevant to the analysis and retrieval of audio are  retained in the MIDI version. This will allow users who are primarily MIDI-based  to take full advantage of all the loop-search facilities of Groove Detective,  but at a significantly lower cost. Additional MIDI facilities have been added to  both versions to make it as MIDI user-friendly as possible.

With MIDI-only loops, the whole process  of creating the search database will only take a few seconds, even with very  large collections, so users will be able to quickly get up and running. A  further advantage in using MIDI loops is that there is no ambiguity or  possibility for analysis error as there can sometimes be with audio, so searches  and results are guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

All future development for Groove  Detective and its MIDI sibling will continue on the same track, so all  enhancements and additions will be reflected equally in both  versions.

GROOVE DETECTIVE is the only program in the business that  enables you to search a drum loop collection for specific rhythm patterns using  a drum-machine type interface as well as find loops with specific drum sounds.  The system is based on state-of-the-art signal analysis that extracts all the  relevant information from the loops and constructs a database with an advanced  indexing system, allowing for super-fast searches in extremely large  collections.