pedro_oliveira1993 wrote:hyena wrote:yah,it is in fact a cool feature, you can do polymetric stuff with that, example: make your beat in regular 4/4 time sig, add a percussion track, record some stuff, then set the length to something like 5 or 7 beats, very cool way to spice things up. its a feature you have in elektron machines, where each track can have its own length. on the mpc it is limited tho: the odd track will reset when the sequence loops, so its not fully polymetric, you can experiment with polymetric and polyrhythmic stuff tho if you set your sequence length to a very high number (999 bars?) then use a different track length for all your tracks (example: kick 5 beats, snare 8 beats, hats 11 beats, percussions 6 beats, bassline 13 beats, melody 23 beats and so on....)
then when you find some interesting rhythm you can bounce the whole sequence, use it as a loop, chop it up or place it anyway you want in your regular time sig\length song.
Thanks for this! I'm way too stupid to understand what you said but yesterday I dove into that and got some cool results!
nah man you are not stupid, it's just scary big words like "polymetric"
lets think visually:
000-000-000-000-000-000-0 kick
00000-00000-00000-00000- snare
0000-0000-0000-0000-0000 high hat
0000000-0000000-0000000 tom
see how they don't line up? this can give very interesting rhythms you will probably never write in a regular fashion
please remember that in the mpc the track length is expressed in beats (1/4) so if you want more intricate\granular stuff you better double or quadruple your tempo (example: try switching from 91 to 182 bpm's)
