Re: 22TechXture (Combined Replies)

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "jacky_ligon" <jacky_ligon@y...> wrote:

> J:L:
>
> Thanks Paul! I was hoping you'd be able to check it.
> How easy is that MOS to play on yer 22 tET guitar?

i think it should be about as easy as any 9-tone scale with no 1/22-
oct. intervals -- in other words, eminently playable, with a little
practice . . . one could use four notes per string and shift slightly
toward the headstock as one ascends to higher strings . . . now the
13-tone mos with the same generator -- that's a bit more challenging.

perhaps we can jam on this scale someday . . .

In-Reply-To: <a5jq73+3ukh@...>
jacky_ligon wrote:

> Actually, this is nothing new for me, as I've been using "beats" in
> my music for a very long time, although looping wave audio in the PC
> began in 97. I've been using drum machines way before that. My first
> really cool box was an old TR-909.

For those who aren't aware, you can emulate a TR-909 with Rebirth. See

<http://www.propellerheads.se/products/rebirth/main.html>

and

<http://www.propellerheads.se/downloads/demos/main.html>

This is a great piece of software to play around with.

> The way that I got the fast beat - and the slow one, was I took an 8
> bar loop of the main drums, and tranposed it to half-time (making it
> an octave lower), and another at twice the tempo (making it one
> octave higher in pitch). These beats, I then superimpose over the
> main rhythm.

Oh, so you're not using time stretching.

> You are very perceptive! Yes - the main drum beats are constantly
> changing (with a delay plugin) to get the polyrhythms, while there
> are other rhythms happening over this, which gives an illusion of a
> continuous "pulse".

I prefer this when it's done like mid-90s drum&bass, with simple delay,
gating and no reverb. But that wouldn't really fit in with the rest of
what Jacky's doing here ...

Graham