The concept
Contemporary music is dominated by 4/4-beats. In particular, this is true for electronic music. Four-to-the-floor is
simply really danceable and therefore reflected in electronic sequencers, clocks and dance music in general. Think
of a typical rhythm-sequencer with its controls for step-programming. In most cases, you will find these units to
work with 16 subdivisions per bar.
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For musical beats referring to rhythm, different terms have been established: steps, beats,
hits. Because randomRHYTHM does not offer manually programmable steps, we decided to
use the term
event
in this manual.
According to perspective, a 4/4-bar includes a specified number of quarters, eights, sixteenth notes or even triplets.
randomRHYTHM follows this scheme in a special way. To illustrate this, let’s take a look of what happens at the
summing output
SEQ OUT
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randomRHYTHM breaks down the musical beats in a simple and logic way. It starts with the 1/4-
events
:
1/4-events at the SEQ OUT
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