keep it loose

D'Angelo has made a legendary impact on modern music with smooth layered vocals and captivating loose rhythms. For his critically acclaimed studio albums, D'Angelo assembled an all-star team - including The Roots' drummer QuestLove - to lay down the foundations of a trademark groove that recreates the sound of classic sampled beats.

This pack contains extracted grooves from every song of every D'Angelo studio album, consolidated into a collection of .agr files you can apply to any track in Ableton Live. This allows you to apply uniquely human imperfections in timing and velocity to your productions in the vein of the loose beats of D'Angelo's records. If you want to learn more about how grooves work and are used in Live, check out the brief guide below. Note if you aren't using Live 9.7.1 or later, these may crash your session, so be sure to update to the latest version of Live.