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Post by pt3r on Feb 9, 2024 7:49:19 GMT
…if it ain’t got that swing. Count Bassie knew it.
Do you know it?
Can you do it on your modular?
How?
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Post by feijai on Feb 9, 2024 12:11:34 GMT
Proud to say that BEATS on GRAINS has swing.
Fun fact: swing (as the term is used for sequencers) was invented by Roger Linn for the LM-1. Roger is a really nice guy.
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Post by Gaëtan on Feb 9, 2024 12:42:41 GMT
The Heartbeat extender offers it of course, but without it I'd say use a clock to trigger a 2env envelope, make the envelope last half the time between 2 clicks and combine the clock trigger with the env's end of cycle. You can then get swing by reducing the envelope time.
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Post by pt3r on Feb 9, 2024 13:36:57 GMT
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Post by feijai on Feb 9, 2024 13:54:04 GMT
He also invented Song Mode on the LM-1, by which we mean an automated mechanism for jumping from pattern to pattern. And of course drum samples. As part of a paper I'm putting together, I had to determine the earliest song mode machine. I asked Roger what the earliest machine was with song mode, and he told me he thought the PAiA Programmable Drum Set had it, but in fact it doesn't. I've checked all earlier drum machines and sequencers that I know of, and in fact it appears the LM-1 was the first (he called it "Pattern Chaining"). |
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Post by leethargo on Feb 9, 2024 18:06:25 GMT
As an alternative to using ENVs with END triggers, I thought of using a square-wave LFO, invert it, and then combine both signals with OR (the original and the inverted), which doubles the clock rate. Then you could control swing by adjusting the pulse width. I thought this was clever, but when I tried it I found that the output of OR was constant 5V, because the OR actually outputs gates, not triggers. To work around that, I used short ENVs, but that kind of defeats the purpose of this exercise  |
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