tempo/arpeggiator question, composition
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tempo/arpeggiator question, composition
OK, new to the microkorg, well pretty much electronic music/composition. If I was to have, say, a neat chord progression and I was playing it with the appegiator on, latched, so just strike a chord n play the chord progression. Just say I like the pattern, the sound of the arpeggiator'd pattern, after messing with the 8 step function. I find that usually the most lucid patterns come when the tempo is set around ninety, but if i go up to say like a standard tempo at 120, it looses its character. Here is my problem, just say I wanted to keep the nice sounding pattern at 90bpm, but i have like a drum sequence playing from Ableton at 120bpm, how can I sync these? I realize I can slow the drums down in ableton to 90bpm and then problem solved, but then the drums sound too slow, like a ballad. So, how can I solve this, is there any mathematical equations for tempo, or do I just leave it at 90bpm, then double the kick drum inside 1 bar, e.g like to get a faster feel, but then that would sorta be a false tempo. I'm confused after trying to explain this, tempo has always confused me, not a drummer, no sense of time either. anybody with suggestions/advice? thanks, in advance. Luke.
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toomanyKORGs
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at 90 and 120 bpm it may sound weird.
dropping it down to 90 will make it slower.
but really you should be running both synced at the same tempo. in fact you should have one slaved to the other's clock.
but try running the clock at 90bpm, and changing your drums. for example, if you are using 8th notes, use 16ths. so your drums/rhythm actually plays twice as fast.
so a bit like how you describe, doubling up the kick, allthough you don't have to do this. just halve the notes, maybe seperate them out so that 1 bar still fills one bar of the other unit.
alternatively if you dont want to use midi sync or whatever, set the tempo of your drums to double 90, which would be 180bpm. or set your microkorg to 120bpm and change the note value to one of the third divisions or something twice as slow.
in short, play the drums twice as fast as the mk tempo, or play the mk half the speed of the drums.
there is no such thing as 'false tempo' as such. if you are using 8th notes and you change to 16th notes, it is the same as changing from 90bpm to 180bpm, especially if you go for the 'double-time' feel (Whereby you fit two bars into one).. if you rearrange your rhythm to fit into one bar still e.g. still have it repeat once a bar by adding in twice as many notes in between, it will have a different effect.
have a play around and see what you think fits.
dropping it down to 90 will make it slower.
but really you should be running both synced at the same tempo. in fact you should have one slaved to the other's clock.
but try running the clock at 90bpm, and changing your drums. for example, if you are using 8th notes, use 16ths. so your drums/rhythm actually plays twice as fast.
so a bit like how you describe, doubling up the kick, allthough you don't have to do this. just halve the notes, maybe seperate them out so that 1 bar still fills one bar of the other unit.
alternatively if you dont want to use midi sync or whatever, set the tempo of your drums to double 90, which would be 180bpm. or set your microkorg to 120bpm and change the note value to one of the third divisions or something twice as slow.
in short, play the drums twice as fast as the mk tempo, or play the mk half the speed of the drums.
there is no such thing as 'false tempo' as such. if you are using 8th notes and you change to 16th notes, it is the same as changing from 90bpm to 180bpm, especially if you go for the 'double-time' feel (Whereby you fit two bars into one).. if you rearrange your rhythm to fit into one bar still e.g. still have it repeat once a bar by adding in twice as many notes in between, it will have a different effect.
have a play around and see what you think fits.