SONICCOUTURE ELECTRO ACOUSTIC, User Manual

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ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC
TRACK CONTROLS
There are six tracks each with identical controls.
STEPS sets the length of the pattern
HITS sets the number of times to strike that drum during those STEPS. You cannot alter
how those HITS are distributed within the STEPS, they are always evenly distributed
(Euclid’s algorithm).
SHIFT moves the position of the hits earlier or later.
ACCENT lets you add a certain number of accents to the hits. ACCENTS are evenly
distributed among the HITS using the same algorithm used to distribute the HITS among
the STEPS (Euclid again).
GLOBAL CONTROLS
PLAY Clicking on this PLAY control starts the beat pattern. Clicking again on it will stop
the beat pattern. Within a DAW the generator will start and stop with your host transport.
RATE is the sync note value (from 1/4 note to 1/32 note), and is always calculated in
relation to the host tempo. SWING adds a shuffle to the beat.
LOOP forces the pattern to restart after a certain number of steps. This might not be
obvious at first, but you can potentially create a pattern with odd numbered steps
needing several years before the sequence would naturally repeats at the beginning
again. To force those kind of things into a usable musical time-frame you can set the
LOOP as you like. (You can also set LOOP to NEVER if you don’t like to dance.)
MIDI DRAG You can drag the pattern as a MIDI file to your DAW using the MIDI
drag button at the top right.
If you’d like to read more about Euclidean beats and why they’re getting so much
attention, Google Godfried Toussaint, he wrote an original paper that started the fad
some years ago.
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