Music and Math

[thorin]

Just wondering what techniques people are using to sequence something that WONT fit into the standard 1,2,4,8,16.... when arranging in SX..

you hear a lot of acid lines that loop 5/16ths or 3/16th etc.

I'd like to beable to write this in and arrange just like a MIDI track....

maybe even have this acid-line looping 5/16ths etc constantly without the right/left locators being in a comprimising location.

Any tips?? :)

[miromiric.]

without the right/left locators being in a comprimising location.

Any tips?? :)

how`s that?

[The Divide]

Ah yer, this interests me. Its down to the cross overs of each loop or midi part. I think when your working with 3/16ths it crosses over on the 12th bar. 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 =12 (as oposed to the standard 17). Otherwise when another sound comes in it doesnt sound on the one. Try creating parts and then copy them across the arrangment and see where they cross over. I havnt yet tried this but i would imagine it gets complicated?!?

Anyone else know much about this?

[Basil Rush]

Yeah - used to do it a lot, you come out sounding like hardfloor, it's cool. 3/4's of a bar is an easy win for an acid line or 7/8ths. surely you just repeat the part but actually loop the tune on 8 or 16 bars, if you've got a complicated thing going on then wack a little fill in at the end of the 16th bar to pad out the gap so you can start on the first note again otherwise it'll end up like free jazz or something.

half of the high energy trance riffs you hear have their emphasis on 3/16ths 'cause it just sounds so damn exciting.

[The Divide]

great advice, i never thought about doing that