monz wrote:
> Hi Herman,
>
>
> --- In tonescape_denhaag@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
> wrote:
>
>> monz wrote:
>>
>>> * Time Signature (the default is "4/4 Rock"). We have
>>> included a large number of different Time Signatures in
>>> a drop-down list, with accent patterns utilizing volume
>>> and tempo changes already built in.
>> Nice! Will these be programmable? Could I set up a
>> repeating pattern with 2 bars of 7 against 5 followed by
>> one bar of 11 against 8? :-)
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~teamouse/bug9.mp3
>
>
> I'm pretty good at hearing complex meters, and can hear
> the 7+7+11 in this in this short piece (which i really
> like BTW -- sounds to me kind of like a steel-drum band
> which got drunk *and* took speed! ;-) ). By "against",
> do you mean some sort of tuplet configuration?

Essentially one percussionist playing in 7+7+11 while another one plays
a different rhythm in 5+5+8 (with very slight changes in tempo so that
they both start at the same time). Another one of these bug temperament
sketches that I have (in a similarly early state of development) has a
meter of 4 + 2/3 beats per measure!

> However, if you (or anyone else) desires to use a particular
> Time Signature which is not in Tonescape's built-in list,
> simply let me know and i'll be able to set up a file for you
> with that Time Signature included.

It wouldn't be worth the trouble for a rhythmic pattern that I'll
probably only use once. But if you had some kind of hand-editable file
for these (something that could be edited in Notepad), even if you don't
have a nice GUI for editing them inside Tonescape, I'd probably get some
use out of it. I just thought it was a pretty cool feature already to
have built-in preset rhythmic patterns more than just quantizing to the
nearest 16th note (as in a typical MIDI editor).