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Duncan wrote:
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I made a 15-step hip hop track and it's got some sort of funky groove to it..

You can get some extremly complex time signiture in song mode.

It takes a bit of time and preperation but I just love using the mono's bbox. Set up some 'chords' (not the annoying whistle or cowbell) and use the arpeggio's set the speed to whatever you what. Then set up a second, or several. You can come up with some fantastic polyrythems. If you have a stedy kick on the MD. You can get away with some wacky stuff and keep it dance friendly.

You can also get some nice off time retrigs. It's limitless.

No one mentions Frank Zappa when talking about complex time signatures??
Ha ha, look him up then!

Hi guys can a complex audio signature be made using fruity loops?

One thing on my to-do-list is to design a little overlay (for swing)
that you can put on top of the steps, so you can get a clear view of where the first beat of a bar is (VERY CONFUSING when working in 5/3, 3/4, etc.)

The swing is a really, really important factor, especially in 12-step (3/4).
Every 2 step of 3 should be swung 70+% for a really nice rhythm.
But it gets confusing when you have to edit the swing for all the tracks.

What do you mean by "every 2 step of 3 should be swung 70+%?"

Do you mean the 2nd step of every third bar?

hageir wrote:
One thing on my to-do-list is to design a little overlay (for swing)
that you can put on top of the steps, so you can get a clear view of where the first beat of a bar is (VERY CONFUSING when working in 5/3, 3/4, etc.)


My god, that would be amazing! I agree, I find myself going cross-eyed looking at the steps when in odd times.

zfigz wrote:
What do you mean by "every 2 step of 3 should be swung 70+%?"

Do you mean the 2nd step of every third bar?

Sorry for being vague:

In 3/4:

It would be (X = normal S = swung)

XSX | XSX | XSX | XSX et cetera.

Or:

SXX | SXX | SXX | SXX

but as soon as you work in that 3 step signature it's easy to get lost because of the physical graphics on the Machinedrum/MnM (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - 16 = locked to 4/4)

That's why I need to find some time and do this thing so we can all print it out and mark it with swing, the first hit of each beat, etc.