3rd monorhythm, I assume this object (in mjlib i think) just sets up a series of clocks for controlling sequencers for polyrhythms. How do I connect these with sequencers (say the analogue sequencer in the doc.reference audio examples). I guess this is more of a question as to how loadbang works, how to build and connect sequencers to oscillators.
Hi,
I guess I'm best placed to answer this since I wrote it :-)
The basic idea is to provide "beats" freed from the normal drum machine grid (where every bar for every instrument has the same number of beats).
So you could have a monorhythm set up controlling say a bass drum with a pattern of "1 1 1 1" and a time of "1000" (milliseconds) - this will give you 4 beats in a 1 second bar. You could then set up a second monrythm driving say a snare drum (these are just examples off the top of my head
- this might sound shit if you actually made it) - if you give
this a time of "1000" and connect its sync input to the sync output of the first monrhythm and give it a pattern of "1 1 1" you will get three beats per second played against the 4 of the bass drum.
I use a simple arrangement of textfile to feed patterns to the monrythms - there was an envelope generator that did the same thing (with a textfile) a while ago. I usually drive a drum machine (Attack being my favourite) or a sample directly from makenotes connected to the outputs of the monorythm. To make it more interesting patterns can have 2 and 0 in them - 0 is a rest (but still counts towards the number of beats in the given time frame) and 2 outputs a beat on the other output (either exclusively or non-exclusively depending on whether you have sent the "exclusive" message to the monorhythm. This lets you do accents (either by making a different note (use exclusive mode) or altering a control value (say a filter) where its best to use non-exclusive mode).
There is documentation with it in the form of a help patch that should be installed - read the readme with the library. There is also a polyexample patch which shows something similar to what I describe above. Where I have bangs to show the output you should put makenotes and connect it to your drum machine or sampler via midi.
If you are being really flash you could connect these outputs to a textfile based sequencer (or something more complex) and have different sounds on each beat - this would work well with a tabla multisample where you have different sounds on each beat.
The idea was to a) free my drum programing from the rigid patterns that dance music seems to have forced on most drum machines - and b) free me from the boring process of having to specify every bar - this way you can set up different length patterns on each drum sound and let them run against each other. If you want to hear this in action have a listen to: http://www.junklight.com/april02/taikonaut.mp3 the drums are ALL generated by Attack driven by monrythms (with different patterns fed to the monorythms each bar by textfiles).
cheers
mark
junklight - dark experimental electronics http://www.junklight.com