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Re: odd time signatures

2007-02-02 by skylab001

Thanks Colin,

thats what my first thought was to do, 1 pattern of 9 notes long for the 9/8's,  but since I 
had never used those time signatures I was confused, and being more of a play by ear guy, 
never learned much about it.  Everything is clear now.


> 
> You can do either of those time signatures with P3, though depending on the
> length of the shortest notes, you may need to chain more than one pattern
> together for 9/8.
> 9/8 means 9 beats, where a beat is an eighth note.
> So you could set tbase to 8, and set the pattern length to 9.
> That gives you a pattern of 9 eighth notes.
> But if you need to use 16th notes in 9/8 time, then you'll need to chain two
> patterns together.
> You could use one pattern of 16 steps, and one pattern of 2 to get the
> required 18 steps of 16th notes, but it would make more sense to use two
> patterns on 9 steps long.
> 5/8 is easier - just leave tbase at the default of 16, and set the length to
> 10.
> 
> Best regards,
> Colin Fraser
> Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
> http://www.sequentix.com
>

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