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rufuss sewell
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| Hey, I've been on a Duran Duran trip lately. I'm hoping to make a random arpeggio kind of like Rio. Unfortunately random doesn't seem to be an option for Arp patterns. Any other ways I might achieve this? |
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Shreddie
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Copy a random arp from another synth into the step sequencer?
Still not random as such as it will cycle but if you were to set it to repeat over an odd number of steps it would be harder to detect... Either that or trigger the Andro from another synth with a random arp.
The Rio pattern isn't random though is it? It sounds programmed to me and I'm sure some of it is a fairly standard up/down +4oct arp going pretty quick. |
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rufuss sewell
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| Nah, it's definitely random. I was able to put a random arp in the environment in Logic. It was pretty easy and gives me instant Rio! It also seems a lot tighter than syncing the A6 via midi clock. I wish the A6 had the option internally though. |
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Shreddie
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| rufuss sewell wrote: | | I wish the A6 had the option internally though. |
Don't we all! |
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rh2y
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:47 am Post subject:
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| rufuss sewell wrote: | | Hey, I've been on a Duran Duran trip lately. I'm hoping to make a random arpeggio kind of like Rio. Unfortunately random doesn't seem to be an option for Arp patterns. Any other ways I might achieve this? |
Ok, this is just a stab in the dark, as I'm not sitting in front of my Andy right now, but this should give you enough to go on to figure out how to make this work:
Use a S/H LFO feeding a Tracking Generator. I think you have to use CROUTES to set this up. Then use the output of the tracking generator to feed the VCO pitch CV.
Then you'll have to manually edit the tracking generator levels to a stepped mode where the level of each of the steps corresponds to a definite pitch. You might want to set the LFO to a tri wave first, so you can hear the individual pitches as the LFO output goes up and down and gets translated by the tracking generator, before switching over to the S/H LFO.
With the S/H LFO generating a random CV, the tracking generator will "quantize" those random CVs into definite pitch CV's before hitting the VCOs.
See if that doesn't get you what you're looking for.
If I weren't so swamped with catching up on work this weekend, I'd program that up myself and send you the patch, but, alas, I'm a bit busy right now. My poor A6 hasn't been powered on in weeks!
Russ
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Dylan Nau
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taken from the tips and tricks.
"the sequencer does have a random mode. Its on the trigger page, use the 'mode" pot. It requires a new trigger for each sequencer step, just like the stage mode."
not sure if that works or not. |
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