Analogue-sequencer

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:06:52 -0000, "john duval"
<darkstr1746@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I've been reading the last few posts about entering 8th and 16th 
>notes etc. and one thing i'm curious about that is, it's obvious how 
>to change the note values and duration but what i'd like to know is 
>can the sequencer trigger notes on the "and" counts?... ie; where the 
>quarter note is counted 1, 2, 3 "and" 4 "and" .... and so forth. Or 
>am i so bogged down in traditional theory and thinking that i don't 
>see the function or see the equivalent on the machine?

Well, a single pattern can be a maximum of 16 steps and if you tie
some notes together, some steps can be multiple lengths of others. You
can introduce Aux events that alter the tbase - for example changing a
pattern from 8 to 16 for 4 steps, changing the tbase to 32 for 4
steps, changing back to 8 for 8 steps. It's flexible but you have to
keep your brain in gear to work out what it is you want. 

I've been experimenting with running two tracks on the same MIDI
channel - each at a different tbase. Then I've been using a third
track to control muting for the two other tracks and introducing
randomness so that you never quite know how the patterns will
coincide. 

Paul
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